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.

A fourth wheat gene governing vernalization -- the biological process requiring cold temperatures to trigger flower formation -- has been identified, giving plant breeders one more tool for developing ...

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, ...

Biennial crops, such as Swiss chard, require exposure to cold in order to flower and set seeds, but the result is not immediately apparent. Evidence that a plant’s vernalization requirement has been ...

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 ...

In the game of wheat genetics, Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at UC Davis has hit a grand slam, unveiling for the fourth time in a dozen years a gene that governs wheat vernalization, the biological ...