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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

To the world of science, vegetable amaranths verge on the invisible. As far as international statistics are concerned, this crop doesn’t exist. Books highlighting world food plants, even those dealing ...