Maize
Maize, also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. The leafy stalk of the plant gives rise to male inflorescences or tassels which produce pollen, and female inflorescences called ears. The ears yield grain, known as kernels or seeds. In modern commercial varieties, these are usually yellow or white; other varieties can be of many colors. Maize was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture. That is, those three vegetables were the main staple crops of the time.
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Transcriptomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of maize cold-drought ...
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Extraradical Hyphae of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Reduce Cadmium ...
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Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
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Crop biofortification for global food security: advances in genetic...
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DNA Methylation Shapes Seed-Borne Microbiome and Proteome Responses...
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Mechanistic Model for Simulating Pesticide Uptake into Maize Pollen.
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Five-year fertilization alters soil microbial composition and funct...
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Analyzing the combined drought index using geospatial technology in...
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Valorization of vitamin C industrial byproduct as a soil amendment:...
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Long-Term Straw Return Reverses Antibiotic Resistance Accumulation ...
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Addressing global hotspots of drought-related crop production losses.
Drought hotspots in the central US, eastern Brazil, and South Asia are already quietly shrinking ...
A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation.
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Risk Assessment, Cross-Resistance Pattern of Broflanilide with Othe...
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ZmDRL1 regulates maize leaf angle via phytohormone signaling.
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Co-application of biochar, vermicompost and silicon mitigates salin...
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Synergistic Effects of Biodegradable Microplastics and Herbicide on...
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Sustainable strategies for enhancing maize yields, nutrition, and e...
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A Conserved DT2-bZIP66-NF-YC4 Regulatory Module Confers Drought Tol...
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Application of biogas slurry abate Pb metal uptake and oxidative st...
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Leveraging algal-derived biopolymers to alleviate multi-metal phyto...
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Role of common arbuscular mycorrhizal networks in crop phosphorus u...
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Phytotoxic Responses of Agricultural Crops to Nickel-Cobalt-Mangane...
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The ZmRACK1-ZmCDPK7-ZmAPX1 module regulates plant antiviral immunity.
Every corn plant in a field quietly runs a molecular immune system shaped by millions of years of...
Predicting complex phenotypes using multi-omics data in maize.
Corn breeders using these methods could develop varieties that hold up better in your region's sh...
A Predictive Multiparameter Screening Model Identifies Prebiotics T...
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Overcoming redundancy in the Arabidopsis TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE PHOS...
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Insights into the genetic basis of natural selection and domesticat...
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Global genetic dissection of maize-teosinte divergence reveals EL3-...
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Development of an Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tripl...
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Translating Arabidopsis-based insights into gravitropic set-point a...
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Transcription factors in phosphorus utilization: enhancing crop pro...
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Integrated physiological and transcriptomic measurements reveal cha...
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of ZmHMA3 reveals its essential role ...
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Spatio-temporal feedbacks between soil legacies and the rhizosphere...
Every time you grow the same crop in the same garden bed year after year, you're quietly loading ...
Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience a...
Corn bred to stay productive through a surprise cold spell and stretch scarce soil nutrients furt...
Generation and Characterization of Autotetraploid Sweet Sorghum
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Genomic and proteomic analyses of the maize root isolate Rhodococcu...
Understanding what lives in the root zone of corn — one of the world's most important food crops ...
