Maize was first domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mexico between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how maize became one of our most ...

Researchers who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310-year-old corn cob have discovered that the maize grown in central Mexico all those years ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to ...

Corn is one of the modern world’s most common crops, covering countless acres of fields and popping up in everything from cereal boxes to fuel. But thousands of years ago, when people living in ...

Ground ear maize is proving a good starch alternative to rolled wheat on a Devon dairy farm. Phil Allin started using this method of harvesting maize, also known as corn cob maize, two years ago when ...

Whether you wrap corn on the cob in decadent bacon, or simply smother it in butter and salt, fresh ears of corn are an ...

In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not 'naked' but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes. According to scientists in Germany, this ...

Imagine a feed that can be harvested easily despite the weather, removes the need for several contractors and is easily ensiled. A Wiltshire dairy farmer seems to have the answer. The stress of being ...

Maize was first domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mexico between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how maize became one of our most ...

Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how maize became one of our most popular cereals. Farming by early civilisations started a process of domestication that produced the ...