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 ...

Are you looking for a new flowering addition to your container garden collection? This unusual sunflower cultivar is particularly cheerful and thrives in a pot.

Most gardeners don't think of planting sunflowers if they are trying to attract more hummingbirds, but surprisingly this ...

Pollenless sunflowers will help allergy sufferers to stay sneeze-free, and they'll mean you can avoid unsightly piles of ...

The substrate specificity of acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterases (EC 3.1.2.14) determines the fatty acids available for the biosynthesis of storage and membrane lipids in seeds. In order to ...

I made some findings about barley and I was told that it is grown in Jos and called Alkama. A reader jokingly told me weeks ago that the way I talk about my one year mandatory National Youth Service ...

Seed priming has been successfully used to improve germination and seedling establishment of many vegetables and field crops. Laboratory tests and field experiments were conducted in 2011 and 2012 at ...

Bright and cheerful, Sunflowers are pretty easy to grow from seeds, and the yield is pretty good - there aren’t many other plants that can grow as high as 3cm in your back garden. The tallest ...

Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. June 21 marked the Summer Solstice, the actual first day of summer. This is when the sun reaches its highest and northernmost points in the sky here in ...

When planting for pollinators, think beyond color. Select native plants with complete flower parts that offer nectar and ...

Cultivated plants have been molded by human-induced selection, including manipulations of the mating system in the twentieth century. How these manipulations have affected realized parameters of the ...