A multi-trait screening study has ranked flax germplasm lines for salt tolerance, identified the seedling vigor index as the ...

Using a sustainable, plant-based material that is extremely light but has the same strength as carbon fiber, Hummingbird Flax claims to be the world’s lightest electric folding bicycle, as well as the ...

The flax plant (Linum usitatissimum) is among the earliest cultivated plants on Earth. Its earliest signs of cultivation have been found at a prehistoric cave dating from about 30,000 BCE, where flax ...

Switching to an electric bicycle is already a big step in reducing your commute’s carbon footprint. But buying one that’s made with plant fibers is taking sustainability even more seriously.

There are lightweight electric bikes and then there are really lightweight e-bikes. But the new Hummingbird Flax folding e-bike is even lighter than those. At just 22 lb. (10 kg), this plant-based ...

A UBC professor's flax research could one day help Canadian farmers grow a car fender. In a recent study, UBC researcher Michael Deyholos identified the genes responsible for the bane of many Canadian ...

A new study reveals the microscopic anatomy and elemental chemistry that allow the endemic Turkish flax Linum mucronatum ...

EDINBURGH — Dig, rake, sow, riddle, water, weed, pull, ripple, winnow. For her solo exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, In Relation to Linum, Christine Borland created a series of rituals ...

Most of us know that flax and chia seeds are both excellent plant-based sources of omega-3 fatty acids, but when it comes down to which one is better, do we know the ins and outs of these seeds enough ...

Flax seeds can grow in radioactive soil near the contaminated site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident without much change to their proteins, experiments show. This study may point the way to growing ...