My display garden at the OPC senior center in Rochester is surrounded on three sides by a rather large area that is filled with a flotsam and jetsam of grasses, sedum, daylilies and weeds. It’s a ...

Plants synthesize the osmoprotectant glycine betaine (GB) via choline→ betaine aldehyde→glycine betaine 1. Two enzymes are involved in the pathway, choline monooxygenase (CMO) and betaine aldehyde ...

One of the most strikingly beautiful plants in the Discovery Garden shares the same family as common pigweed. In its many guises, this versatile genus of herb can be used for grain, as a dye, in salad ...

Did you know that the beautiful amaranth Amaranthus caudatus ‘Love-Lies-Bleeding’ actually is an ancient grain once cultivated by the Incas and Aztecs? All amaranths are edible, including ornamentals.

Its leaves taste like spinach, its seeds are a nutritious cereal grain substitute, and its flowers serve as a bold accent in the annual garden bed. Yet it nearly became extinct half a millennium ago.