propagation

If you grow strawberries and have ever wished your ever-bearing variety would also send out enoug...

Fumeworts are increasingly coveted spring ephemerals for shade gardens, and cracking their germin...

Every cutting you press into damp soil is racing to rebuild an egg-shaped cellular command center...

If you've ever planted paperwhite narcissus bulbs and gotten disappointing blooms or no flowers a...

That lush, multi-stemmed bouquet flower you love at the farmers market — lisianthus — could soon ...

Finger millet is one of the most resilient grains on Earth, thriving where other crops fail, and ...

That sassafras thicket at the edge of the woods you walk past — the one that smells like root bee...

Fruit you eat could one day grow in a facility instead of a field, meaning drought, frost, and so...

Every strawberry runner your plants send out this summer — those arching stems that root and make...

The towering tulip poplar lighting up eastern forests with orange-and-green blooms each spring co...

Cuttings from your favorite ornamental tree sometimes refuse to root no matter what rooting hormo...

When you're tucking a young tree into dappled shade beneath older trees, the difference between 5...

Every time you pinch back a leggy seedling or stake a climbing vine, auxin is the signal your pla...

Every cutting you've ever failed to root — from a stubborn fig branch to a temperamental olive — ...

Rare tropical plants that can't be frozen or seed-banked — the ones quietly holding rainforest ec...

Tomato breeders working to create cuttings that root faster — or backyard gardeners frustrated by...