AMES, Iowa – Organic agriculture practices eschew many synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, putting pressure on crops that conventional farming circumvents. That means an organic farmer who doesn’t ...

AMES, Iowa – The newly assembled genomes of 26 different genetic lines of corn illustrate the crop’s rich genetic diversity and could pave the way for a better understanding of what genetic mechanisms ...

Corn growing in the Irene Rose Sohn Zegar Memorial Greenhouse on the top floor of NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing moving the Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center and the National Soybean ...

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 ...

A team of Agricultural Research Service, university and industry scientists has spotted a new genetic vulnerability to tolpyralate herbicide in 49 varieties of corn, marking the first report of the ...

AMES, Iowa – A project to increase the genetic diversity of seed corn is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an open house and field day on Friday, Sept. 20, to highlight the program’s history. The ...

ST. PAUL -- Don't look now, but the Corn Belt is moving. Iowa and Minnesota still are "Field of Dreams" territory for corn, but now so is a good chunk of North Dakota, which once was considered too ...

New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve ...