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If you want to plant a tree that produces a bounty of sweet treats year after year, you'll need an ice cream bean fruit tree.
As the world's coffee faced the risk of extinction, botanists might have found the solution in plant species from the ...
One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...
Kent Mathewson is pictured in Mexico with a Castor Bean Plant. He is giving a lecture on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hurlbut Church in Chautauqua Institution. CHAUTAUQUA – What do King Tut, Cleopatra, ...
Kent Mathewson is pictured in Mexico with a Castor Bean Plant. He is giving a lecture on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hurlbut Church in Chautauqua Institution. CHAUTAUQUA – What do King Tut ...
You can’t simply plunk a whole cell of starts into the ground. You have to carefully separate them, and then plant each seedling in the ground, with space around it. It takes forever.
Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens.