New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how specific sections of genetic material ...

The closest wild relative of maize, teosinte, does not look very promising as food. The ear is tiny compared to the domesticated one, and the grains are surrounded by hard fruitcases that are ...

When most growers plant corn, they expect perfect, uniform rows and plump and pearly yellow kernels lining the cob. But a ...

Plant geneticists have successfully demonstrated what it describes as a "simple hypothesis" for making significant increases in yields for the maize plant.

The combined detective work of botanists, geneticists and archaeologists has been able to identify the wild ancestor of maize.

Researchers developed a technique called MOA-seq that mapped out many regulatory switches across the genome of a developing maize ears.

What Ancient Maize Can Tell Us About Thousands of Years of Civilization in America It took millennia, but America’s founding farmers developed the grain that would fuel civilizations—and still ...

RA3 gene activity was detected and traced to presence in nucleus and cytoplasm of developing cell in maize ear. RA3 is in green and nuclei are counterstained in red.

The rains are here and farmers are busy. Maize farmers should understand the growth and development of the plant to do proper crop husbandry to maximise yields.