The Missouri Botanical Garden has completed a 26-year effort to document the state's native plants. The three-volume Flora of Missouri contains illustrations, plant distribution maps, and a detailed description of each species, including its taxonomy, uses, and conservation status. This encyclopedic ...
Crops and native plants across Missouri could be at risk because of an alien species of weed with a propensity for taking charge.Garlic mustard, formally alliaria petiolata, has European origins and has long been a troublemaker in the East. Now it is cropping up more frequently in Missouri....
Planting Seeds for Collaboration in Plant Sciences - Growing the Missouri-Canada ConnectionBaer, Jim
This is henbit close up. My daughter likes to pick the little flowers off and eat them because they are sweet. Henbit can be eaten fresh or cooked as an herb, used in teas, salads, wraps and smoothies. All parts of the plant above ground are edible and high in iron, vitamins and fi...
Once utilized by native tribes 8,000 years ago to track giant sloths and mammoths, Zion Canyon was later settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1860s. Due to flash floods, early settlers faced great difficulty in the park as the sudden onslaught of raging waters could wash away entire towns. ...
One way to combat that lack of knowledge is by working with, and training, scientists in the countries that would benefit greatly from CRISPR-Cas. Another way would be to use CRISPR-Cas to genetically modify a prominent African crop such as teff, an annual grass native to Eritrea and Ethiop...
Most of you probably know what Amaranth is, but for those of you who don’t, I’ll fill you in a little. As of right now, there are 93 species in theAmaranthusgenus that are either native or introduced to nearly every country in the world. There are 183 genera in the plant family...
Many ardent horticulturists concentrated on this common species in the early nineteenth century — domesticating native plant species for home gardens and producing hybrid crosses from these natives was something of a national preoccupation during the period — and Norton as a named variety was availabl...
Rice is the seed of the monocot plantOryza sativa. MatureOryza sativaplants are typically between 37 and 42 inches tall.Oryza sativais native to Asia and is commonly referred to as “Asian rice.” The plant can be grown under mid-south growing conditions, typically from April to August. Mid...
A soybean variety designated SN97-6946, the plants and seeds of soybean variety SN97-6946, methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the variety SN97-6946 with itse