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New research from La Trobe has identified ways to create more consistent seed growth across a season, ensuring bigger harvest yields for crop growers. A paper published in Nature Plants shows how La ...

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A botanist buried 20 bottles of seeds in 1879 to test how long they'd survive, and the experiment is still running today.

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There is a recurrent journalistic fable that grains of wheat taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have grown into new wheat plants. Scientists take no stock in it. The maximum length of time in which ...

In 2021, MSU plant biologist Lars Brudvig dug for one of the Beal bottles to continue the seed germination study, first done by Wiiliam J. Beal in the 19th century. For nearly 150 years, researchers ...

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In 1879, Professor William J. Beal buried 20 glass bottles of seeds. At regular intervals ever since, researchers have been digging them back up to study.Credit: Derrick L. Turner/Michigan State ...