Callaloo is a superfood made from amaranth leaves. Although highly climate-resilient, yeilds increase if protected by ...

Amaranth makes a productive grain crop and the striking plants are often used asornamentals, such as this 'Burgundy' amaranth. If you surveyed gardeners and asked them to pick a few crops they would ...

November’s Weed of the Month is Palmer amaranth. This fast growing weed has developed resistance to multiple herbicide modes of action so it is difficult to control. Palmer amaranth produces a lot of ...

Studying techniques that could be used to grow food for astronauts on a Mars mission, UH engineering student Aleca Borsuk, who is minoring in botany, developed a method to grow amaranth plants quickly ...

Learn how India’s forgotten superfoods like jackfruit, amaranth and moringa are gaining global attention for nutrition, ...

A flowering amaranth plant. Photo by Rob Myers. Features writer {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In the 1520s, the Spanish ...

Amaranth does not refer to one single plant. Rather, Amaranthus is a wide genus comprised of around 60 different species, most of which are summer annuals. This genus is a member of Amaranthaceae, the ...

Five hundred years ago, growing amaranth in Mexico was a crime punishable by death: the Spanish invaders had outlawed cultivating or even possessing the staple crop. Key to both the diet and religion ...