While we’re all anticipating spring, it’s still only February. Outside, we can see our plants resting over winter, but just because they are dormant doesn’t mean they haven’t been doing anything all ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.

Rain on Dec. 26 should have been enough to make wheat seed absorb moisture and swell, starting the vernalization process. After the seed has absorbed moisture and the germination process has begun, ...

MANHATTAN, Kansas -- A Kansas State University wheat geneticist is part of a breakthrough study that identifies one of the wheat genes that controls response to low temperature exposure, a process ...

This time of year my garden is at its most bedraggled - no snow to cover up all of the bleak garden beds littered with trellises and pots. The field that surrounds my garden looks equally bedraggled, ...

IN an earlier communication 1 I described the “leaf vernalization” of leaf cuttings of Lunaria biennis. After cold treatment, such cuttings from leaves of adult plants regenerate and yield flowering ...