Maize

An agroecology grad student creates rhizosphere-inspired art.

A six-year study across the Tanzanian mountain’s slopes hints at how land-use practices will interact with a changing climate to influence ecosystems around the world.

Bumblebee colonies grow poorly in landscapes dominated by maize, researchers find.

Critics of an agricultural research initiative cite concerns about possible weaponization of the resulting technology, which would use infected insects to deliver genetically modified viruses to plants.

By combining alleles involved in plant height, an agricultural scientist has grown the world’s tallest cornstalk, breaking his own record set in 2017.

An analysis of 40 years of data also finds declines in pest populations after the introduction of the GM crop.

The UC Davis agroecologist grew up on a farm and now works to help farmers grow more resilient crops.

Maize enthusiast Jason Karl aims to continue breaking his own records for the tallest corn plants ever grown.

A plant breeder succeeds in growing a huge maize plant thanks to a known mutation and a few environmental tricks.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researcher links complex traits to the genes that underlie them.

Brain Storms, Orphan, Maize for the Gods, and Paranoid.

A genetic analysis of ancient and modern maize clarifies the crop’s checkered domestication history.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.