Q. Every year I grow shelling pea vines, but the plants are never very vigorous, and the pod set is modest. I’m wondering how ...

Broad beans are an ancient favourite ... Stake after the seedlings are up and use anything from pea sticks to bamboo with string to support the plant. Dwarf varieties will need less space and ...

While most of the genes behind his seven trait pairs — such as round vs wrinkled seeds and tall vs short plants ... building a broad and genetically diverse panel of pea accessions.

Mendel, a citizen scientist, famously performed a series of experiments in the mid-nineteenth century in which he cross-bred some 28,000 pea plants to understand how their traits were inherited by ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...