She grew up adhering to the traditionally well-defined roles of a girl child in the society that gave prominence to male children. About three years back, she discovered a strange transformation ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur about every 50 years. Here's why it causes a rat flood and, ultimately, famine in certain regions of the world.

It’s also hugely resilient – six gingko trees survived the bombing of Hiroshima. But people tend to only plant male trees, as ...

Next, they inserted the beak with its load of fluorescent pollen into a new set of male and female flowers and tracked where the marked and unmarked pollen particles ended up. The hummingbird ...

FNB cautions farmers and consumers to brace for significant changes in the coming season, this is while the current prices are relatively high. South African maize prices remain uncertain due to a ...

the maize falls down, risking the entire crop. Called lodging, the physical fall results in shorter plants and overlapping leaves—both of which negatively impact the plant's ability to grow.

The calcium-dependent protein kinase ZmCPK39 is identified as a key immune component in maize infected with foliar ... How much of Earth’s plant diversity is distributed across islands, and ...

Hybrid maize, for example ... Next, the new plant must develop from the clonal egg cell without fertilization by a male ...

Kiwifruit is starting to bloom in Bay of Plenty, dairy farmers up and down the country are busy breeding the next season's ...

As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds and collect fruits from the forest. But we make ...

Anne (not her real name) is a single mother and one of thousands of the predominantly female workers in Kenya's flower industry ... household goods such as maize, wheat, rice and sugar.