Sunflowers deliver a boatload of happiness with their sunny faces and there are many different varieties to try. Who doesn’t love a sunflower? Endlessly cheerful, radiating optimism, each flower is an ...

Sunflowers are fun, cheerful, easy to grow plants native to North America. Native Americans ground the seeds for flour and used the oil for cooking and dressing hair. The sunflower also provided dyes ...

Growing giant sunflowers isn't just about picking a big variety, you also need to think carefully about placement, irrigation ...

Brian L. S. Olson, Richard K. Zollinger, Curtis R. Thompson, Dallas E. Peterson, Brian Jenks, Mike Moechnig and Phillip W. Stahlman Pyroxasulfone (KIH-485) is a seedling growth-inhibiting herbicide ...

Seed priming has been successfully used to improve germination and seedling establishment of many vegetables and field crops. Laboratory tests and field experiments were conducted in 2011 and 2012 at ...

This sunny annual flower is a favorite among gardeners, but you probably didn't know that hummingbirds love it, too. Plant ...

The trend is clear, says Brent Hulke: The climate is changing in North Dakota and sunflowers are working harder to survive. Hulke is a research geneticist specializing in sunflowers in the U.S.

A variety of questions in population and evolutionary biology are studied using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA). The presumed maternal inheritance in angiosperms allows for certain assumptions and ...

Implementing solutions to climate change will require big ideas and an even bigger mobilization of resources, but high technology doesn’t always have the answers. Plant physiologist Laura Marek and ...