WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

A new technology, speed breeding, allows plants to be grown more rapidly. The technology produced wheat, from seed-to-seed in 8 weeks. Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest ...

Grass seed production is far more intense than most people realize. Before a variety ever reaches a store shelf, it has to ...

For centuries, farmers have bred plants for traits such as taste, resilience and yield. The development of Next-Generation Sequencing, a visual technology, utilizing fluorescence imaging to explore ...

Calais Abenaki Flint, a corn variety featuring golden yellow and deep maroon kernels, was once a staple food of the Abenaki people living in northern New England. Resilient and relatively quick to ...

December 12, 2016 — Frank Morton has been breeding lettuce since the 1980s. His company offers 114 varieties, among them Outredgeous, which last year became the first plant that NASA astronauts grew ...

Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and the cookies for dessert. Not one would be possible with the humblest of ingredients: the seed. Seeds such ...