This column is written by the UC Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that ...

You may not realise that some parts of your regular Sunday dinner side dishes can actually hide a number of health benefits.

In addition to the role of FLC in flowering, studies in A. thaliana and other Brassicaceae species demonstrated that FLC has pleiotropic effects on other developmental traits. Pleiotropic phenotypes ...

Plants are often attacked by insects and other herbivores. As a result, they have evolved to defend themselves by producing many different chemicals that are toxic to these pests. As producing each ...