A research team led by Andrea Eveland, PhD, associate member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has uncovered key ...

Ultimately, maize and corn are the same crop ... It would later become cemented as a name for the plant when a scientific name was settled on -- Zea mays. In Europe, maize (or a cognate thereof ...

Offering farmers more seed choices also would help reduce Bt overuse, researchers said. Bt traits targeting insect pests such ...

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

KABWE, ZAMBIA — Bayer AG has opened a €32 million ($34.5 million) maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia, that will supply 6.4 million Sub-Saharan African smallholders with high-yielding maize seeds in ...

He learned early on that growing seedlings in a greenhouse greatly increases internode length, in part because the glass or plastic shifts the light spectrum reaching the plant’s leaves. He also ...

and his mythic story mirrors the annual planting and harvesting of the corn on which all Central American civilisation depended. Like the maize plant, the maize god is decapitated at harvest time ...

shows that high-flavonoid maize has the potential to be used in a breeding program to develop specialty corn lines tolerant of multiple insect pests.” More research is needed before plant ...

The physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves ... "There are certain maize genes that, when perturbed, dramatically affect both leaf and tassel morphology," said Andrea ...

lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt," captures the study's main thrust, said Aaron Gassmann, professor of plant pathology, entomology and microbiology at Iowa State ...