By late summer into early fall, the tiny, lantern-shaped husks will dry up and drop, and the fruits will begin to self-seed.

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

Botanists at the Dahlem Seed Bank in Berlin are running germination tests ... it loads its fruit tissues with certain proteins; these proteins tweak the activity of genes in developing seeds ...

The next time you’re about to toss the pit or seeds ... the fruit. If you’re planting a fruit that is cold hardy, like an apple or peach, it needs to be cold stratified. They only germinate ...

On the first warm Saturday of the year, Taylor Bakeman organized a seed packing event to restock The Discovery Center’s new ...

Discover the hidden ways your daily habits may trigger anxiety, from phone use to sleep patterns, even when they seem healthy ...

The corn market is relatively strong as Texas producers monitor planted fields in southern areas and prepare to plant in the High Plains.

Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smoldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

Insects like thrips and lygus bugs damage fruit and crickets eat leaves. Birds peck at fruit, rabbits eat fruit and plants, and mice pick the seeds from the fruit ... Wet conditions slowed farming ...

Twenty-three individuals from 11 institutions contributed to creating the seed germination database. They uploaded their germination experience onto a public platform for people to learn and benefit.