Newswise — Since humans began domesticating plants thousands of years ago, artificial selection has shaped crop traits for survival, nutrition, and productivity. Yet, for many vegetables, breeding ...

Chinese cabbage is part of a crop family that must be exposed to cold temperatures for a particular period of time in order to flower. Scientists have succeeded in comprehensively identifying the long ...

If you’re sad that the peak gardening season is coming to an end, consider planting some fall showstoppers. Ornamental kale grows wonderfully in the fall and looks gorgeous too. If you’re sad that the ...

At a time when thoughts should be on planning a coming season of gardening, including checking on dahlia bulbs, gladiolus corms, cleaning tools, or organizing the garage, my mind moves to happiness ...

Summer’s roses are fading, flowering annuals have turned brown and have given up for this year, but there are ways to jazz up a fall landscape. Some favorites are cheerful pansies, and flowering kales ...

Ornamental kale, especially, provides a superb addition to leafy salads, and while you may be loath to remove its foliage given the hard work it's doing to replace your summer bloomers, you can rest ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Last spring we planted flowering cabbage plants in our mum bed hoping to have both plants flowering in the fall. But the flowering cabbage did not do well. It has nice leaves in early summer, but the ...

A research team has succeeded in comprehensively identifying the long noncoding ribonucleic acids (IncRNAs) that are expressed when Chinese cabbage is temporarily exposed to cold temperatures for four ...

Flowering Chinese cabbage, a staple leafy vegetable across Asia, has undergone decades of breeding to improve adaptability, productivity, and quality. Researchers have now conducted the most ...