Researchers wanted to know whether the last 100 years of selecting for corn that is acclimated to particular locations has changed its ability to adapt to new or stressful environments. By measuring ...

AMES, Iowa – Sweet corn breeding has lagged behind advances in field corn due to its smaller market footprint, but an agronomist at Iowa State University is contributing to a national effort aimed at ...

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Fargo - Corn may be king, but it hasn't conquered the cold. A North Dakota State University researcher aims to change that. Professor Marcelo Carena is breeding cold-tolerant, short-season, ...

NESS ZIONA, Israel & GENESEO, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a leading genomics AI company, and Wyffels Hybrids, a U.S. Farm Family owned seed corn company, are pleased to announce the ...

AMES, Iowa -- It’s hard to beat fresh sweet corn in the summer. Or is it? Two Iowa State University faculty are part of a major federal research project aimed at boosting sweet corn quality, using the ...

URBANA, Ill. - Corn didn't start out as the powerhouse crop it is today. No, for most of the thousands of years it was undergoing domestication and improvement, corn grew humbly within the limits of ...

Southern California is home to a tremendous number of immigrants, and many come from places where gardening is a given: you grow as much as you can, because why wouldn’t you? For those from Mexico, ...

The study, which you can read in its entirety here, is a large-scale examination as to whether these highly specialized corn varieties have maintained the ability to adapt. It starts off by noting the ...

For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement have been the domain of genetically modified plants: mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup.