Corn grass is a monogenic dominant type of maize that arose by a single macromutation. It has narrow leaves, many tillers and under field conditions hardly ever sheds pollen. It can be propagated ...

Researchers focused on the Xihuatoxtla Shelter in an area of the Balsas Valley that is home to a large, wild grass called Balsas teosinte that molecular biologists recently identified as the ancestor ...

Maize cobs (5,300 to 1,200 years old), Tehuacan, Mexico(Collections of the R.S. Peabody Museum, Photo: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution) By about 6,000 years ago, people in Mexico had ...

The high cost of maize production is driving farmers to opt for alternative income-generating ventures in parts of the North Rift region. A number of farmers in Trans Nzoia county have resorted to ...

Now, at the end of October, the grass looks the best it has all year. Unfortunately, it is unlikely we are going to see a ...