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 ...

The kind conditions have seen a start to maize drilling in Northern Ireland and in the South West, with rain bringing welcome ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

“This is in part due to lower standard (warm) germination percentages and partly to the fact that soybean seeds, which need to stay healthy long enough to drag the large cotyledons up and out of ...

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

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 ...