Maize farmers in Tiruvallur district have started harvesting their crop. Sown over 50 acres on a trial basis this year, the farmers say they are happy with the crop.

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Maize plants might also survive after a drought, he says, "but when they rehydrate, they don't go back to the same leaf architecture they had before, and the flow of CO2 and water is all messed up".

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Traits are inherent in the genetic makeup," Dr Mwirigi says. From web sources, the earliest maize plants grew only small, 25-millimetre-long corn ears, and only one per plant.