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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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.

When applied at planting, the bacteria colonize plant ... all Corn Belt acres." More information: Logan P. Woodward et al, Soil inoculation with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria to supplement maize ...