Regional Extension Educator-Crops, Hutchinson Early planted corn this spring requires about 100 – 125 growing degrees days, or GDDs, to emerge. To determine daily GDD accumulation, calculate … ...

Seed germination begins with uptake of water by the dry seed and terminates with radicle emergence and elongation of the embryonic axis 1. Water movement into living cells governs seed germination ...

Failed crop emergence, uneven emergence, and stunted plants can often be a direct result of poor mesocotyl growth and health. For example, severe mesocotyl damage to young corn seedlings (before ...

The Radicle Challenge set out to invest a minimum of US $1.5M in start-up and growth companies worldwide whose innovative technologies and business models create new uses for corn and long-term ...