They are joined by the work of husband and wife design team Dokter and Misses, Senegalese designer Babacar Niang and the design collective Ardmore in an exhibition titled Grains of Paradise. Organized ...

The Bird of Paradise plant takes some beating when it comes to adding a touch of ‘tropical’ to your home. This easy-to-care-for plant has huge, blue-green, lush foliage growing to an imposing ...

If you’re looking for a showstopping plant to add to your home, you’ve found it. With large, deep green paddle-shaped leaves and vibrant flowers, the bird of paradise is easy to care for but ...

Rye is more tolerant of adverse soils conditions than most small grains. It tolerates drought, low pH, and low fertility. For best results well drained soils with a pH between 5.6 and 6.5. Rye ...

In flowering plants, male and female reproductive structures can be found in the same individual plant. The organ of sexual reproduction is the flower. Male gametes are found in pollen grains and ...

But these crops need to be replanted each year, which can cause problems with the soil. Some plant scientists are serving up an alternative, a grain called Kernza, which can live in the ground for ...

When materials are altered in shape by plastic deformation their grain shape tends to change. This is illustrated below for a wire being "drawn" into a dimension suitable for a bicycle spoke. While ...

Oats origin is Asia and Europe. Feed oats are tolerant of heavy, wet soils. They are more winter sensitive than other small grains. Oats are an annual grass crop. They are a tiller plant and can be ...

npj Science of Plants is an online Open Access journal dedicated to publishing high quality research in both fundamental and translational aspects of plant-related biological science.

A relatively open winter and record warm temperatures in February and March had farmers in parts of the corn belt doing some field work and talking about early spring planting. However, looking at ...

A gas power plant on Kent's Isle of Grain is retrofitting three turbines to help tackle climate change by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2). The technology to remove climate-damaging gases from ...