A breeze wafted through the air on a late summer morning, rustling neatly kept plots of lush-green alfalfa at New Mexico State University’s Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center. The field had all ...

We work our alfalfa pretty hard here in northern Indiana ... Stem count is not the only consideration, however. The crowns of ...

Dubbed the “king of forages,” alfalfa is indispensable in agriculture for its high protein content, environmental ...

Alfalfa also contains plant compounds like flavonoids, phytoestrogens, phenolic acids, and saponins. Some of these are thought to have anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory ...

Alfalfa contains important micronutrients like: Alfalfa also contains plant compounds like flavonoids, phytoestrogens, ...

If you want to harvest alfalfa late in the year, you need to wait until after a killing frost. But what is a killing frost?

PHOENIX — The state Land Department on Monday canceled one of the controversial leases of state land to a company that has been growing alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia. An aide to Gov.

One of the first plants the Land Institute developed was Kernza, a perennial grain crop originating from intermediate ...

“Alfalfa Bill” received his nickname, which stuck to him even in death, for his fiery campaign speeches which usually contained some reference to the merits of growing alfalfa as a crop. Murray grew ...

A genetic regulator of tomato sweetness has been identified through comparison of wild and domesticated varieties of the plant. Genetically engineering tomatoes to alter this gene increases sugar ...

Plant biotechnology can be defined as the introduction of desirable traits into plants through genetic modification. Genomic and pangenomic data are yielding insights into the evolution of plant ...