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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The physical structure of corn plants — including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches — makes a big difference for yield. Two new genome-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

Total seed protein in modern hybrid and inbred varieties of corn is three times lower than that of its wild ancestor, teosinte. The reasons were unknown, until now. A gene on chromosome nine called ...

Blue and purple corn may not spring to mind as a ‘must buy’ food but there seems to be a market for it. Having differently colored tortilla chips has been around for a while, but there seems to be a ...