From the hilltops and back corners of Mexico’s traditional farms to the sterile potted corn plants at a greenhouse atop Iowa State’s Bessey Hall, associate professor of ecology, evolution and ...

The interplay between the genetic makeup of crops and the conditions in which they grow is difficult to untangle. A research team aims to help breeders analyze the interactions to make crops more ...

After earning her Ph.D., she became an instructor at Cornell and worked on the first of her major contributions to genetics by studying the chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn.

Interestingly, due to the introduction of Bt maize, recent research suggests there has been an areawide suppression of European corn borer populations (Hutchison et al. 2010). This is beneficial ...

Maize, or corn, grows tall, with thin stalks that boast ears of the cereal grain used in food production, trade and security globally. However, due to rain, wind and other increasingly extreme ...