While we’re all anticipating spring, it’s still only February. Outside, we can see our plants resting over winter, but just because they are dormant doesn’t mean they haven’t been doing anything all ...

You could start seeds indoors now if you wish. I’m starting onion, leek and shallot seeds, but won’t put them in the ground until about April. I’m also starting tronchuda, kale and collards that can ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.

Biennial crops, such as Swiss chard, require exposure to cold in order to flower and set seeds, but the result is not immediately apparent. Evidence that a plant’s vernalization requirement has been ...

Understanding how environmental signals regulate flowering is crucial for crop improvement. This study presents a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the shoot apex in Chinese cabbage ...

• Perennials have a complex shoot architecture with axillary meristems organized in zones of differential bud activity and fate. This includes zones of buds maintained dormant for multiple seasons and ...

Vernalization is the phenomenon whereby plants require prolonged exposure to low temperatures to flower. This ensures that overwintering plants undergo reproductive growth under suitable light and ...

Gray 1 and Simpson 2 have both reported experiments on the vernalization of lettuce, and these observers agree that low (2–8°) temperature treatment of the swollen seeds for varying periods, while not ...

Ndjido A. Kane, Jean Danyluk, Guylaine Tardif, François Ouellet, Jean-François Laliberté, Allen E. Limin, D. Brian Fowler and Fathey Sarhan The initiation of the reproductive phase in winter cereals ...

Rain on Dec. 26 should have been enough to make wheat seed absorb moisture and swell, starting the vernalization process. After the seed has absorbed moisture and the germination process has begun, ...

VERNALIZATION by light or the treatment of seedlings to exposures of different light periods in order to accelerate flowering has been effected in temperate cereals. Cailahjan 1 vernalized several ...