The role of plant breeding has changed dramatically over the years, particularly as procedures that used to lean heavily on human instinct and insight have been replaced with high-tech computerized ...

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 ...

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 the plant ...

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, ...

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 ...

We’ve tinkered with corn for more than 5,000 years. Now, with the mysteries of the corn genome becoming known, can scientists push yields to a quantum leap in a couple of decades? Some researchers ...

Corn reproduction can be unruly, as I wrote here. It’s hard to segregate different crop types. But if you are willing to accept a few illegitimate kernels, it is possible to maintain relatively ...