Germination quality of field beans is worse than usual this year, according to latest results from NIAB. Just 25% of samples tested at the Cambridge-based lab had germination above 80%, and around 60% ...

In Brazil, common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) seed lots are classified using sieves into lots of small, medium and large seed size, which are then separately sold in standard 40-kg bags. However, the ...

In Bayer soybean seed fields this summer in North Dakota, beans with a range of maturities thrived in the late, warm weather ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Published by the Botanical Society of America continuously since 1914, the American Journal of Botany (AJB) is the Society’s flagship research journal.

Bean growers are being urged to test their farm-saved seed ahead of drilling, to avoid poor establishment resulting from this summer’s poor pulse harvest. Increasing numbers of farmers may be looking ...

If you are looking to propagate trees and shrubs from seed, here are five things you must know, from when seeds should be ...

MR. HEBER SMITH'S observations on the relation of the micropyle to the radicle in the seed of Vicia faba (NATURE, February 4, p. 400) are quite correct. It is surprising that the structure and ...