Buckwheat is a plant workhorse, a workhorse today’s American gardeners and farmers seem to have put out to pasture. Tom Ford, a Penn State commercial horticulture educator, told me, “Buckwheat is ...

As consumers continue to turn their attention to organic, plant-based, and nutritionally dense foods, we’re beginning to see a rise in the growth of some unlikely and (literally) small products – ...

Washington researchers are seeking growers interested in experimenting with buckwheat on their farms. Buckwheat is a “cash crop, cover crop and something in between,” said Rachel Breslauer, a graduate ...

PLYMOUTH NOTCH — Buckwheat used to be called the “lazy farmer’s crop.” It would grow anywhere, the soil didn’t have to be that fertile, and farmers could plant it in June and still harvest a good crop ...

CHICAGO — Sprouted buckwheat is set for a breakout year in the United States, following the recent quinoa craze. A Chicago-based entrepreneur is planting the seeds of a national trend. Emily Griffith, ...

Two proteolytic enzymes, a cysteine proteinase and a carboxypeptidase, responsible for breakdown of the main storage protein, 13S globulin, were purified from buckwheat seedlings (Fagopyrum esculentum ...

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