Everyone loves big, beautiful sunflowers (Helianthus annuus), right? These stunning North American native flowers are great for bees, can be used to make tasty snacks, and can even help to clean soil.

The mission, known as Helianthus, the official name for a sunflower, was initially described at the 6th International Symposium on Space Sailing in June 2023. In a presentation, the Italian ...

It locates patches of host plants along roadsides, field margins, and disturbed rangeland. Patches of common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, are especially attractive to this grasshopper. In its favored ...

This year’s perennial is the Swamp or Narrow-Leaf Sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius). This is another native perennial that can grow to about 8 feet tall that produces flowers later in the ...

In collaboration with our peers in EBIO, we are developing genomics-assisted breeding techniques that allow us to balance improvement in yield and nutritional aspects of the seed oil in sunflower ...

What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation.