Cook County Forest Preserves is on a mission to restore 30,000 acres of habitat to high-quality condition by the year 2030.

Wild spinach from Central Asia resists a deadly fungus threatening US spinach seed crops. New study could protect global ...

Several varieties of wild spinach that originated in Central Asia show resistance to a destructive soil-borne pathogen that ...

Decades after flooding drove his family from their Louisiana home, June returns to replant the land, and grapple with its legacy.

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

Iowa's silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

Australia's native ants do an incredible amount of environmental and agricultural heavy lifting. Here are 10 of our mighty little workers.

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Gardening is in Susie Sonflieth’s bones. Raised by her grandparents on a farm in Texas, she and her cousins spent their summers growing corn, okra and other crops the family would sell at the market.

Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...