This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In young maize plants, water stress affects the —SH-dependent activities: photosynthesis and dark respiration are reduced to about 60% at the ...

Plants were cultivated in a nutrient solution containing increasing cadmium concentrations (i.e. 0.001-25 µM), under strictly controlled growth conditions. Changes in both growth parameters and enzyme ...

Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits ...

When maize fields become too crowded, the plants signal each other to boost their defenses. A research team led by Dongsheng Guo of Zhejiang University found that in crowded conditions, maize plants ...

UC Davis graduate student Michelle Stitzer records the GPS coordinates of an individual Zea mays plant in a field in eastern Jalisco, Mexico, to investigate hybridization between maize and its wild ...

Every third-grader knows that plants absorb nutrients from the soil through their roots. The fact that they also release substances into the soil is probably less well known. And this seems to make ...

The third day after rains came down, Joseph Kibaya is preparing and putting his old knapsack sprayer into a good condition, ready to face off with pests on his farm. In less than a week, the maize he ...

A species of bacteria that infect corn crops compel their hosts to produce a feast of nutrients that keeps the pathogens alive and thriving long before they start to kill the plant's cells, new ...

Ohio corn farmers navigated several mishaps, including design follies and unreliable weather, to deliver the fall staple.