The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

providing a potential strategy to develop drought-resistant crops with improved root system architecture. Drought poses a major threat to global food security, and enhancing the ability of crops ...

Auxin is essential to this process, as demonstrated by the researchers' restoration of normal root growth in these mutants by externally adding auxin. The results were consistent between maize and ...

A recent archaeological discovery has revealed that an ancient pre-Columbian society in the Amazon region successfully developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to ...

A new study has lifted the lid on five species of root-lesion nematodes living in maize crops across New Zealand—and suggested the existence of a hitherto-unsuspected cryptic species ...

Only about 20% of maize producers in the root crop farming system currently use fertilizer even though they represent over 20% of maize plots in the sample. Understanding and improving the likely ...