seed-saving

Fungicide treatments sold to protect fritillary bulbs from rot can make rot three times worse by ...

The heirloom tomatoes you grow from saved seed or find at the farmers market have never had the b...

Species that vanished from your region in the last few centuries — the wildflowers, native shrubs...

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

If you're growing cucumbers, melons, or squash through a brutal summer dry spell, specific variet...

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

Beech trees dropping a carpet of nuts every few years is what keeps squirrels, jays, and deer fro...

If you've ever tried direct-seeding oaks in a restoration planting or food forest only to find th...

Grain amaranth has fed people through droughts and poor soils for thousands of years, and this br...

Seeds planted in a late-summer drought or salty coastal garden bed often just sit there and fail ...

Every potato in your garden and kernel of wheat on the stalk owes its size partly to this sugar-s...

Wheat fields across the dryland plains are already pushing into shorter, hotter growing seasons —...

Fusarium mold silently rots seeds in your vegetable garden before they ever sprout, and these nat...

Growing your own seed potatoes indoors just got more practical — tuning the ratio of red to blue ...

Seeds you collect from a restored prairie or replanted woodland may carry a reshuffled microbial ...

Amaranth greens you can grow in a summer pot or backyard bed vary dramatically in nutritional pun...

Wild and semi-managed relatives of your garden taro are being selectively tended or uprooted by I...

Every seed you sow is running a hidden calculation — reading light, temperature, and soil moistur...

Fenugreek growing in your herb garden has been trusted by mothers across Punjab for generations t...

Broomcorn millet is one of the oldest drought-tolerant crops humans ever cultivated — and now gen...

Old sunflower landraces grown by farmers for generations may hold the drought tolerance or diseas...

If you grow fava beans or lentils in your garden, the tiny weevil that tunnels into your harvest ...

Wall barley—that scratchy grass that gets its seeds stuck in your dog's fur every summer—is quiet...

The open-pollinated sunflowers your grandparents grew in their kitchen gardens carry drought tole...

Highland quinoa plants quietly deleted chunks of their own DNA over generations to survive the An...

Hulless barley has quietly sustained Tibetan plateau communities for millennia at altitudes where...

Seed banks hold thousands of forgotten vegetable and grain varieties that are far more nutritious...

Rice varieties you can actually taste a difference in — more nutritious, with better texture and ...

Sorghum is the drought-tough grain quietly holding food security together across the driest farmi...

Every ear of corn you've ever shucked exists because ancient farmers gradually coaxed a scraggly ...

Every loaf of bread you bake depends on wheat plants that can pollinate themselves reliably — and...

Gardeners who've wrestled with crops that bolt too early or fruit trees that refuse to set seed a...

Soybean breeders now have a precise genetic dial for controlling flowering time — the same kind o...

Rice paddies breeding cleistogamous varieties could produce seed that stays genetically pure seas...

Every seed you plant — from sunflower to squash — survives dormancy and powers its first days of ...

Seeds you save from your garden carry fats that determine germination vigor, shelf life, and even...

Every bizarre flower shape, carnivorous trap, or prickly stem you've ever marveled at in a botani...

Every tofu block, edamame pod, and soy milk carton you reach for reflects a decades-long tug-of-w...

Lima beans you grow from heirloom seed are drawing on genetic diversity shaped by two entirely se...

Seed-saving gardeners who want to reliably clone a favorite tomato or squash variety are chasing ...

Corn ears that fail to pollinate — a common sight after a cold snap, drought, or missed planting ...

Sweet lupin grown in your vegetable patch or food forest doesn't just feed you — its roots active...

The rice varieties flooding researchers have now flagged as resilient are the ones most likely to...

Every seed in your garden — from tomato to zinnia — depends on these molecular controls firing in...

Every tomato blight, rose black spot, and wheat rust that devastates a garden or farm is fought —...

Rice farmers and breeders lose significant yield when flower timing goes wrong during hybrid seed...

Every dry bean in your pantry — black, pinto, kidney — exists because plant breeders have been ra...

If you grow raspberries, the genetic markers found here could eventually help breeders release ho...

Next time you spot a crossbill working through a pine cone in a mountain forest, you're watching ...

Every seed you plant — from tomatoes to native prairie flowers — decides whether to sprout or sta...

Every seedless watermelon, high-yielding corn hybrid, and disease-resistant sunflower on the mark...

Chickpeas grown in drought-prone regions — including backyard dry gardens and water-restricted pl...

Chickpeas grown in your garden or in farmers' fields could soon need a fraction of the phosphorus...

Wheat varieties grown in your region may soon be bred specifically for the flour qualities that d...

Every seed packet you tuck into spring soil is the end product of decades of breeding decisions —...

Mungbean goes from seed to harvest in under 60 days and fixes nitrogen back into garden beds, so ...

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

If you grow lentils, the fuzziness of the leaves and the color of the seeds are not just decorati...

Mungbean sprouts you grow on your kitchen counter or toss into stir-fries come from a crop so yie...

Seed developers can stabilize a new corn variety in two seasons instead of six using haploid indu...

Every packet of seeds you buy at the garden center passed through a chain of cleaning machines, q...

Cotton's domestication story is written in its genes — and understanding which wild relatives car...

Every packet of seeds you buy carries a certification number that traces back to a legally overse...

Every tomato, apple, and wildflower in your garden depends on pollen carrying just the right surf...

Every seed you plant—sunflower, tomato, oak acorn—carries engineering solutions that took 350 mil...

Watching a silique swell on your radish or mustard plant, you're witnessing a molecular tug-of-wa...