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

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like Gregor Mendel before her, Barbara McClintock quietly dedicated most of her scientific life to the study of one plant ... chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn.

The increasing prevalence of grey leaf spot (GLS), caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis, and northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), caused by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum, in South Africa’s ...

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 ...