CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Modern corn is a food staple, animal feed, biofuel, industrial sweetener, alcohol base, and even a source for bio-plastics. But what do we really ...

The history of modern-day maize begins at the dawn of human agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. In outlining the history of maize, scientists have established maize was domesticated from teosinte, a ...

A unique confluence of archeology, molecular genetics and serendipity guided a collaboration of Mexican and Penn State researchers to a deeper understanding of how modern corn was domesticated from ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has begun to unravel a mystery millennia in the making. Our story begins 9,000 years ago. It was then that maize was first domesticated in the Mexican lowlands.

AMES, Iowa – It’s almost like time travel. Iowa State University scientists are learning how to peer back through millennia of domestication to learn how a wild grassy plant known as teosinte ...

Like the golden kernels of corn, teosinte kernels are enclosed in a husk. Unlike corn, each husk is small and contains relatively few kernels, which are also enclosed in a hard, stone-like fruitcase.

It is hard to imagine a world without corn. It sweetens our sodas, fuels our cars, fattens our livestock, and forms the core of countless meals. Whether you are biting into a buttery cob at a summer ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The history of corn, one of humankind's indispensable staple crops, is far more complicated that previously known, according to scientists who conducted a comprehensive genetic ...

But unlike modern corn, the two specimens lacked seminal roots. Seminal roots, which supply corn seedlings with additional water and nutrients, are not present in teosinte. The researchers then ...