A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

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The roots of young maize plants release benzoxazinoids, which bind to iron and form complexes in the soil. The researchers found that these complexes increase iron availability for maize plants ...

Maize plants release secondary metabolites into the soil that bind to iron and thereby facilitate its uptake by the plant. The Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera), the economically most ...

The study in young maize plants reveals that these bacteria not only generate food for themselves in crops they inhabit, but also coax life-sustaining water from the plants.

These are the biggest pest threats to the young maize plant. Wireworms are golden brown larvae of click beetles while the fat, grey and legless crane fly larvae are known as leather jackets.

But in the second year the pest is more likely to target the germinating and young maize plant causing patches of uneven emergence across the field.

Abigail Kadirire picks a dark green caterpillar with white stripes off a ragged and torn maize plant and puts it on her palm. She is clearly distressed. "This is the second time this farming ...

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The worms become moths and their name derives from the fact that they "march" across the landscape in large groups while in the caterpillar stage, feasting on young maize plants and wiping out ...

This means young maize is trying to grow while being scorched by the sun. It is also racing against time; maize needs 100 days to grow to full size.

The pest which are most dangerous at larvae stage, feed and damage leaves and inside whorls of young maize plants resulting in small shot holes or large ragged and elongated holes on the plant.