A seed is made of a hard outer coating that is for protection. Beneath this coat is the food reserve to feed the embryonic seedling hidden inside. This is the cotyledon or cotyledons. There are two ...

Scarification refers to breaking the seed coat. This is sometimes needed for quicker germination of some seeds. Morning glory ...

When vegetable and flower seeds grow, they form one or two leaves very early—these are called "cotyledons" and they are part of the seed itself. Later, the seedling will grow a second set, ...

Now is the time to apply pre-emergent herbicides to prevent weed seeds from developing and growing into mature plants in our lawns. Some of these weed seeds includes annual crabgrass and goosegrass, ...

In contrast to cereal grains, most food reserves in mature sunflower seeds are in the embryonic leaves known as the cotyledons, rather than in the endosperm, which is a thin layer of cells 5.

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds ...

Some annual seed will germinate within a couple of weeks, but perennial plants may take up to a year before stirring into life. The moment when the first leaves push through the surface is always ...

As more unsettled weather arrives, our Crop Watch agronomists welcome some moisture to help spring crops establish and boost ...

They feed on cotyledons and the first leaves when the crop is establishing ... “You can get significant plant damage, which ...