Ohio State Extension educator Lee Beers explains the process of soil crusting and how to reduce the risk on your farm.

Abscisic acid (ABA) prevents cotyledon opening in the dark by modulating splicing through serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins RS40 and RS41. Light reduces ABA levels, releasing this repression to allow ...

Kochia weed infestations can reduce crop yields up to 90% if left unchecked. Learn how and when to identify kochia to protect ...

Plant fruits and seeds are many things to many habits and organisms. Seeds inside fruits are a hope that flowering plants ...

Rue (Ruta graveolens is a species with distinct visual appeal, possessing softly lobed blue-green foliage and yellow flowers.

“Dig up plants and see where the seed depth was.” Flea beetles, cutworms, and seedling diseases are also on the watch list, especially in fields with slow emergence. Brown encouraged producers to get ...

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, ...

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 ...

They’re concerns over the health effects of eight types of seed oils—canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, rice bran, safflower, soy, and sunflower. On TikTok, words like “toxic,” “danger ...

Seeds of this genus generally show dormancy of two natures ... We consider as seedling all phase with cotyledons. In this phase the following stages of seedling development were identified, namely: I ...

This is the most important part of the seed, it contains the genetic material to grow and develop. The embryo is made up of the embryonic root (radicle), the embryonic shoot (plumule) and the ...