Sunflowers offer more than just food and habitat for pollinators; after the growing season is over, the sunflowers can be ...

The annual sunflower (Helianthus annus) has a long history in North America, with evidence of its cultivation for food, ceremonial and medical use by Native Americans dating back to at least 1,000 B.C ...

The growing awareness among the consumers of the benefits of helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil , has fuelled the growth of the market. Helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil is extracted from the ...

Experiments were conducted in the field, greenhouse, and controlled environmental chambers to determine the injury to sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) from diclofop {2-[4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenoxy] ...

'Cavitation fatigue' is the increased susceptibility of a xylem conduit to cavitation as a result of its prior cavitation. It was investigated whether cavitation fatigue induced in vivo could be ...

Implementing solutions to climate change will require big ideas and an even bigger mobilization of resources, but high technology doesn’t always have the answers. Plant physiologist Laura Marek and ...

One popular choice is the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Sunflowers not only look beautiful, but they are a favorite of birds, especially when the blooming season is over and the seeds dry out. Some ...

A variety of questions in population and evolutionary biology are studied using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA). The presumed maternal inheritance in angiosperms allows for certain assumptions and ...