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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rain on Dec. 26 should have been enough to make wheat seed absorb moisture and swell, starting the vernalization process. After the seed has absorbed moisture and the germination process has begun, ...

Ndjido A. Kane, Jean Danyluk, Guylaine Tardif, François Ouellet, Jean-François Laliberté, Allen E. Limin, D. Brian Fowler and Fathey Sarhan The initiation of the reproductive phase in winter cereals ...

This time of year my garden is at its most bedraggled - no snow to cover up all of the bleak garden beds littered with trellises and pots. The field that surrounds my garden looks equally bedraggled, ...

THE present communication summarizes the results of eight hours prechilling soaking treatment at room temperature with different concentrations (500, 50, 5, 0.5, 0.05 and 0.005 parts per million in ...