Farm Journal’s Smart Farming Week is an annual week-long emphasis on innovation in agriculture. The goal is to encourage you to explore and prioritize the technology, tools and practices that will ...

When faced with harsh growing conditions, the energy plants typically expend on growth gets delegated towards a stress response induced by disease, salty soils and extreme weather. And according to a ...

Peptide hormones are important growth regulators that play various roles in many organisms. Although the importance of genes that encode peptide hormones is broadly recognized, most peptides have yet ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- The Global Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs) Market is witnessing remarkable growth, driven by the rising demand for high-quality agricultural produce, shrinking ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need ...

Extending pruning cycles reduces site intrusions into neighborhoods like this, leading to happier customers. Tree growth regulators (TGRs) increasingly are being integrated into vegetation management ...

1. Plant hormones play important roles in regulating plant growth and defence by mediating developmental processes and signalling networks involved in plant responses to a wide range of parasitic and ...

This USGA Green Section Collection — assembled to supplement the April 3, 2015 issue of the Green Section Record (vol. 53 issue 7) — Provides useful resources pertaining to the use of plant growth ...

Plant abscission represents a finely orchestrated developmental process whereby plants shed organs such as leaves, flowers or fruit. This process is mediated by a specialised layer of cells, known as ...

Martijn van Zanten, Tita Ritsema, Joanna K. Polko, Antonio Leon-Reyes, Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek, Frank F. Millenaar, Corné M. J. Pieterse and Anton J. M. Peeters Upward leaf movement (hyponastic ...

A new study finds that a unique mechanism involving calcium, the plant hormone auxin and a calcium-binding protein is responsible for regulating plant growth. Plant growth is strongly shaped by ...