Corn development and final yields The number of harvestable kernels per ear is an important contributor to the grain-yield potential of a corn plant. Severe plant stress during ear formation may ...

Growing corn yourself will give you the sweetest, freshest ears, and all you need is a sunny spot. Growing corn in your ...

Furthermore, corn is an excellent source of antioxidants (181.4 ± 0.86 μmol of vitamin C equiv/g of grain) among all common ...

CSHL Professors Thomas Gingeras and Rob Martienssen have launched a new genomic encyclopedia called MaizeCODE. Their latest ...

“Seeing how tall corn can grow comes down to internode length and quantity,” Karl explains—in other words, the number of leaves a stalk has and the distance between those leaves. He learned early on ...

Turns out that’s not true – not exactly. Corn does indeed make a sound when it grows, as captured recently by this time-lapse video from Douglas Cook at the Crop Biomechanics Lab at New York ...

Several tractors with push blades work to shape a 50-foot-tall, 4 million-bushel, pile of freshly harvested corn that was being hauled in Hoxie, Kansas. The corn will be ground and mixed with ...

Growing sweetcorn in your garden or allotment is easy to do in the UK. Discover our trialled-and-tasted sweetcorn varieties ...

The company became the first to offer farmer-dealers a full lineup of forage seed and hybrid seed corn. By the mid-1960s, the farmer-dealer network had grown to over 500. After 56 years as ...