Boost your garden's productivity by learning the best times to start seeds indoors – including a month-by-month guide for ...

Breaking dormancy in a seed is complex and can be influenced by external factors like temperature and abrasion of a hard seed coat, or internal conditions that influence seed maturation.

A research team reveals a critical cellular mechanism that enables this navigation: the dynamic remodeling of actin filaments at the tip of pollen ...

Keeping seeds properly stored for the dormant season ensures that you'll have bountiful crops the following season. Here are our top tips for seed storage.

A research team has uncovered a surprising new role for DICER-LIKE 1 (DCL1), a key enzyme in microRNA (miRNA) production.

After-ripening, an extension of seed maturation is pivotal for seed dormancy release, which has implications for germination and subsequent seedling robustness. The efficacy of this process varies ...

Dormant seeding is considered to be the easiest way to plant grass seed because little to no soil preparation is needed.

Dormancy of Lupine seed can be broken by the process of scarification. In nature, seed of bluebonnets may survive in the ground for years without germinating because of their hard seed coats.

How Dormant Grass Seed Holds Its Ground Snow cover and ice don’t wash away dormant seed as easily as you’d think. When grass seed is applied during dormant seeding, it settles into the soil ...

To Safeguard Threatened Plants, Scientists Must Master the Tricky Art of Seed Banking Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

The most adverse trait of North American native grasses, according to Baldwin, is their high seed dormancy, which means that most of the seeds planted fail to germinate even in optimal growth ...