January ushers in more than just winter. It is the season of the four “tions”: brumation, hibernation, migration and vernalization. Each of these represents a specific behavior that ultimately affects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 refers to the acceleration of flowering that occurs following prolonged exposure of seeds or young seedlings to low temperatures. Plants that are vernalized do not flower immediately ...

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 ...

IN an earlier communication 1 I described the “leaf vernalization” of leaf cuttings of Lunaria biennis. After cold treatment, such cuttings from leaves of adult plants regenerate and yield flowering ...

In a study that wraps up three years and 13 growth cycles of several popular hop varieties, researchers are upending conventional wisdom hop growers have followed for decades to coax their plants to ...