Blue agave, Agave tequilana, is a plant widely used to produce tequila. It’s native to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and Aguascalientes in Mexico, but has been imported into many of the southern parts of ...

An agave plant at the Duke Bioscience Research Greenhouse has finally bloomed after 10 years. Last month the agave plant stalk first started growing, and it now stands at roughly 20 feet tall, ...

Just as the Earth is waking up from winter, mature agave send flower stalks toward the sky. It signals the moment when the ...

Waikulu Distillery owner Paul Turner stands in a Makawao field of blue agave plants Wednesday morning while describing the process of farming and distilling his premium agave spirit on Maui.

Stalk rots occur to a greater or lesser degree every year in Indiana. Losses from stalk rots may occur directly when plants are prematurely killed and ears are lightweight and poorly finished or ...

Traditionally, it’s wrapped in the thin film of leaves or stalks from agave plants, then steamed or cooked in a pit. “Mixiote” is derived from a Nahuatl word and refers to both the material ...

From left: an open lei with shells, pincushion protea and braided dracaena leaves; a poepoe-style (rounded) carnation lei ...

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

Traditionally, it’s wrapped in the thin film sourced from the stalks of maguey plants such as agave, and then steamed or cooked in a pit. “Mixiote” is derived from a Nahuatl word and refers ...

And that’s a good thing. But as we explored the crop of stellar new restaurants that opened between September 2023 and September 2024, we found ourselves — if fleetingly — forgetting about the real ...

Stalk rots are one of the most significant set of diseases on corn. These diseases are insidious, and often growers are unaware of their effects until harvest. Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly ...