Discover how wild plants could become resilient crops for a warming world, unlocking new potential for food security.

whereas wild blueberries grow low to the ground on "lowbush" plants. Cultivated blueberries are typically much larger and more uniform in size than wild blueberries. While this may make them more ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make ...

Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others.

Loss of cultivated plant diversity — so-called genetic erosion ... of biological diversity including cultigens, their wild relatives and systematic collection of cultivars throughout their ...

In Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives, Ellstrand, a professor of genetics at the University of California at Riverside and a widely respected contributor to ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton identified key traits that made some wild plants more suitable for domestication ...

There are, in simple terms, two types of blueberry plants - the wild and the cultivated. The wild is native to the north eastern states of the US, particularly Maine, and over the border in Canada.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for ...

In a study that could transform agricultural pest management, researchers have uncovered the robust insect resistance ...

Kathy Russell, conservation and environmental manager for city of Fernandina Beach, leads volunteers during an Invader ...