If you want a plant that will bring color and works great for beginners, then take a look at the spiderwort plant. It is a versatile perennial for shade or sun. It’s easy to grow from purchased plants, and you can propagate them through division, cuttings, or seed. In the spring, p...
“You can’t really make as much use of the genome information as we should be able to until you can do that kind of modeling for plants, as well,” he said. “And that’s pretty much what this project is about.” The other research team members include Samuel Seaver of The ...
Most of the perennial grasses used for biomass production are either undomesticated plants or are still at the early stages of development and improvement [12]. However, traditional breeding for these crop types is a long-term process, requiring a minimum of 15 years to allow the germplasm ...
Forest trees, like many other plants, can secrete a wide range of phytochemicals such as terpenoids (mono- and diterpenoids), alkaloids, and phenols (such as stilbene, lignans, flavonoids, tannins, and proanthocyanidins) to change pathogen-host interactions in favor of host trees [21]. Moreover...
others are grown as pot plants or in hanging baskets for indoor or greenhouse cultivation. They arevaluedfor their showy pendulous flowers, tubular to bell-shaped, in shades of red and purple to white. The hanging growth habit and flared shape of theflowergave rise to the popular name ladies...
There are over 40 cultivars and hybrids of Bletilla that have been selected for flower color or variegated leaves. Breeders are focusing on increasing flower size and the number of florets per inflorescence, creating plants with more outward facing flowers, and improving the color of the white fl...
Cotton (Gossypium) has a long history of cultivation in Africa, witnessed by the presence of traditional cotton plants conserved in the villages. A collection of traditional cotton accessions conserved as perennial plants by farmers was made throughout Burkina Faso. The collection represents a wide ...
“You can’t really make as much use of the genome information as we should be able to until you can do that kind of modeling for plants, as well,” he said. “And that’s pretty much what this project is about.” The other research team members include Samuel Seaver of The Univer...