corn kernels are technically fruit (just as a pumpkin is technically a berry). According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a fruit is “the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant ...

However, botanically, like tomatoes, corn is classified as a fruit because it has seeds and develops from the flower of a ...

Corn development and final yields The number of harvestable kernels per ear is an important contributor to the grain-yield potential of a corn plant. Severe plant stress during ear formation may ...

“Locally, it looks like we could get the corn planter started on Wednesday without seed-chilling issues, and we probably can continue to plant until about Saturday noon – if the weather ...

Alternatively, if you forgot to grow plants earlier, you can still grow corn by planting seeds directly into the soil in late spring and early summer. Use a dibber to make 2.5cm holes and sow two ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing technique to reduce corn plant height, enabling the creation of ...

Ferrie adds that there are also four leaf type structures in corn plants – hybrids have upright, semi-upright, semi-pendulum or pendulum leaves. “Corn hybrids with more of a ‘floppy’ leaf ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...