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Jan. 21, 2021 —A new Cornell University study found that harmful mutations in sorghum landraces - early domesticated crops - decreased compared to their wild relatives through the course of domestication and ...
Nov. 16, 2022 —A recent study offers a promising strategy to protect food security and safety of maize in Sub-Saharan ...
Jan. 8, 2021 —Plant researchers have investigated the transport of compounds in maize. They focused on the mechanism used to transport the products of photosynthesis for further distribution in the plant through ...
Dec. 14, 2020 —Scientists report the fully sequenced genomes of three roughly 2,000-year-old cobs from the El Gigante rock shelter in Honduras. Analysis of the three genomes reveals that these millennia-old ...
Feb. 22, 2021 —Corn has a highly complex genome, making it a challenge to apply genome-editing techniques to it. Researchers used CRISPR to tinker with the corn genome promoter regions and modify stem cell growth. ...
Jan. 12, 2021 —A new study linking land use patterns and pest outbreaks in Bt maize suggests that slowing the resurgence of western corn rootworm may require a larger-scale strategy than previously ...
May 3, 2021 —An abnormal build up of carbohydrates -- sugars and starches -- in the kernels and leaves of a mutant line of corn can be traced to one misregulated gene, and that discovery offers clues about how ...
Sep. 30, 2020 —Some organic pesticides contain live spores of the fungus Trichoderma to suppress other pathogens. Researchers found one Trichoderma species can cause severe rot in cobs of maize ...
Nov. 20, 2020 —Using X-rays, a researcher has imaged 28 impressions of maize weevils on pottery shards from the late Jomon period (around 3,600 years ago) excavated from the Yakushoden site in Miyazaki Prefecture. ...
Mar. 23, 2022 —Archaeologists show that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple ...
