Back when I only visited the countryside occasionally, I suffered from what botanists call “plant blindness,” described by Zoë Schlanger in her entertaining new book, The Light Eaters, as “the ...
During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...
Longtime gardener, tomato expert and author Craig LeHoullier said he still sometimes gets nervous reading reviews of his book, “Epic Tomatoes.” Despite his worry, he typically ends up pleased that the ...
In a way, it’s kind of a little miracle. You place tiny little seeds in dirt — DIRT! — and you keep it damp. Wait a week or so, and something grows. Wait a bit longer and that something becomes food ...
Roger Milliken built one of the world’s leading textile and chemical manufacturers. But his environmental stewardship might be his greatest legacy.
Are plants intelligent? Until recently, botanists were hesitant to ask that question, at least publicly. But that’s changing. In recent years researchers have learned more about how plants communicate ...
The use of various mutagens to generate genetic variation in crop plants has a history almost as long as that of conventional breeding. Induction of variability by irradiation of barley seeds with ...
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