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 ...

Blue corn prefers well-drained soil with a neutral pH level. Before planting, make sure to test your soil's pH and adjust it ...

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

The physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden ...

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 ...

To grow the corn of tomorrow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory geneticists and plant biologists are digging up maize’s ancient roots. The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of ...

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

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

show 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 breeders ...