If the technology can be refined to allow for large-scale breeding and seed development, such dwarf corn plants could revolutionize the global food chain by allowing maize to be grown in more ...

A Purdue University study confirms complex associations among plant hormones and their signaling pathways that are key to controlling plant architecture.

Dwarf maize plants that use much less water and fertilizer than normal maize plants but produce the same amount of grain have been produced by a US-based plant biochemical and genetics expert.

Plant-infecting viruses cause significant losses to agriculture, including to staple crops such as wheat, maize, and rice. Preventing and managing endemic and emerging plant diseases is an ongoing ...

Large-scale maize farmers in Lugari subcounty and Kakamega county will now benefit from the newly commissioned maize milling plant.The plant will run three divisions for the production of maize ...

Rough dwarf maize disease was identified early this year in Masindi district and Namulonge in western and central Uganda, according to Godfrey Asea, head plant breeder for the cereals research ...