Seed longevity of Capsicum species may be affected by seed drying methods. The effect of three seed drying methods (passive, sun and oven drying) on seed storage life (longevity) of 16 cayenne pepper ...

Keeping your seeds as viable as possible means limiting exposure to light, air, and moisture—and going through them once a year. At some point in your gardening journey, you’re going to run into a ...

The art of saving seed has been practiced by gardeners long before there were commercial seed producers. In fact, most of the vegetables and flowers we have today owe their existence to the fact that ...

Determination of the optimum moisture content for seed storage is difficult because deterioration is very slow at conditions close to the optimum. We have used thermodynamic principles to relate water ...

Many gardeners have seeds and partially filled seed packets left over after the summer growing season. But there’s no reason to throw old vegetable, herb, and flower seeds in the trash. In this guide, ...

THE INBRED rice seed currently being handed out to farmers is designed to be planted right away, and improper storage in the event of delays could affect the quality of the crop, the Philippine Rice ...

The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard "doomsday" Global Seed Vault, a giant storage unit for plant seeds that's tucked into the side of a frigid ...