A new study has identified a genetic circuit in plants that controls individual leaf growth and allows the plants to adapt to their environment. The findings could help the development of more drought ...

Top of the to-do list when planning this year’s forage maize crops should be to check soil pH and correct where necessary.

Blue corn prefers well-drained soil with a neutral pH level. Before planting, make sure to test your soil's pH and adjust it ...

A research team led by Andrea Eveland, PhD, associate member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has uncovered key ...

The physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden ...

Zhang and his colleagues grew from seed a series of maize plants with and without melatonin treatment at various concentrations under normal and drought conditions. Once the first full leaves had ...

Maize is wonderful crop to grow for biogas. But imagine an alternative that is cheaper to grow, is a perennial (so doesn’t ...

The increasing prevalence of grey leaf spot (GLS), caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis, and northern corn leaf blight ...

"We envision that it might now be possible to optimise endogenous growth and defence trade-off mechanisms in crops such as maize via engineering leaf microbiota to increase plant growth in poor ...