Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, has three times the seed protein content of most modern maize strains. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters tracked down the mechanisms ...
About 9,000 years ago, maize was first domesticated by Indigenous peoples in the Mexican lowlands. Roughly 5,000 years later, maize crossed with a different type from the Mexican highlands called ...
An important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates certain chemical processes that contribute to flowering time, and has its origins in 'teosinte mexicana,' a precursor to modern-day corn that grows ...
Corn is a colossal grain in the global food and feed chain, with the U.S. producing roughly 30% of the world's supply, or ...
In 1716, Cotton Mather described maize which Americans call corn and pumpkins which are also known as squash as hybrid plants. On longer evolutionary time scales, hybridisation can lead to local ...
Researchers at North Carolina State University show that an important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates certain chemical processes that contribute to flowering time, and has its origins in “teosinte ...