Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce ...

The use of a strip-till cultivator has halved the number of maize establishment passes and more than doubled work rate at a ...

This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the ...

In a series of three recent studies, a team led by CSIC researcher at CRAG Ana I. Caño-Delgado has made significant progress ...

Chinese scientists have uncovered two major genes responsible for sorghum's double-grain spikelet that dramatically enhance ...

The value of maize in feed rations is not in doubt but farmers are facing challenges in continuing to use it with confidence ...

SAMPLES have been obtained of seed described as Chinese rape, imported into Europe for oil extraction. The seeds in these commercial samples are either yellow or vinaceous in colour, and the ...

In the new prices, 1kg will now be sold at Sh210 while a 2kg will be Sh420. A 10kg will retail at Sh2, 100 as 25kg goes for Sh5,250.

This means that maize is 10% more competitive for planting than at the same time last year. The current parity is the lowest for four years. This price relationship could incentivise US farmers to ...

These results will lay the foundation for regulation and function analyses of the maize TALE gene family by hormone and abiotic stress during plant growth and development, and enrich the gene ...