Flowering mechanism in Brassica rapa leafy vegetables illuminated Kobe University Journal Scientific Reports Funder Ministry of Education, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Fund for the ...

Post graduate students in Kobe University's Graduate School of Agricultural Science have revealed the role of genes in controlling flowering time in the Brassica rapa family. Satoko Takada and ...

A new genomic study has unlocked the genetic secrets behind the breeding of flowering Chinese cabbage—a popular leafy ...

Gus, a member of our farm crew, started eating the tops raw — flowers, leaves and stems — all of them tender and sweet. There they were, the perfect brassica shoots hiding right under my nose ...

By increasing the expression of this microRNA, the researchers have developed an early flowering transgenic plant of Indian mustard cultivar Brassica juncea cv. Varuna and shown that by ...

“To significantly reduce wheat bugs in brassica fields, first establish alyssum at its flowering stage or alyssum plus wheat at its seed-ripening stage around the perimeter of the brassica field ...

“We found that plants experiencing drought conditions tend to flower earlier than those in well-watered environments,” he said. This evolutionary strategy ensures that plants can produce seeds before ...

Some of the nation’s favourite brassica vegetables, such as broccoli and cauliflower, are available all year round. This is because growers plant different crop varieties that flower at different ...