MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...

Ultimately, maize and corn are the same crop ... It would later become cemented as a name for the plant when a scientific name was settled on -- Zea mays. In Europe, maize (or a cognate thereof ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial ...

A new study has identified key genetic pathways in corn that help its roots branch out to find water in soil. The findings could help the development ...

Maize is wind pollinated. Plant pyramid: Plants with two or more Bt toxins targeted against the same pest. Pulmonary edema: Abnormal build up of fluid in air sacs of lungs. Western corn rootworm ...

He learned early on that growing seedlings in a greenhouse greatly increases internode length, in part because the glass or plastic shifts the light spectrum reaching the plant’s leaves. He also ...

The health and environmental costs of corn production have been found to be greater than the market price in some regions of the USA. A multi-departmental team from the University of Minnesota (UMN; ...

and his mythic story mirrors the annual planting and harvesting of the corn on which all Central American civilisation depended. Like the maize plant, the maize god is decapitated at harvest time ...

Like Gregor Mendel before her, Barbara McClintock quietly dedicated most of her scientific life to the study of one plant ... chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn.

Officials and farmers are expecting an all-time record production of maize in Rangpur agricultural region after exceeding its fixed farming target by 7.88 percent by last week during this Rabi season.