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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Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
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Analyzing the combined drought index using geospatial technology in...
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Addressing global hotspots of drought-related crop production losses.
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The genetic and regulatory framework of cuticular wax formation: in...
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A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation.
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Role of common arbuscular mycorrhizal networks in crop phosphorus u...
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A data-light composite climate resilience index reveals superior dr...
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Sustainable strategies for enhancing maize yields, nutrition, and e...
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Straw-based fertilizer traps toxic metals, grows cleaner wheat
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Mechanistic Model for Simulating Pesticide Uptake into Maize Pollen.
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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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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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Leveraging algal-derived biopolymers to alleviate multi-metal phyto...
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ZmPEPCK2 enhances nutritional quality and yield potential by synchr...
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Phytotoxic Responses of Agricultural Crops to Nickel-Cobalt-Mangane...
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Plant heat survival tricks all serve one shared goal
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Maize yields crash past a hidden dryness tipping point
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The ZmRACK1-ZmCDPK7-ZmAPX1 module regulates plant antiviral immunity.
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Overcoming redundancy in the Arabidopsis TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE PHOS...
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Integrated physiological and transcriptomic measurements reveal cha...
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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 ...
Friendly soil fungi help corn shrug off drought stress
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Heat treatment and protein tweaks make maize gene editing far more ...
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Maize genes found that boost drought survival and kernel yield together
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Two maize genes found to control branching and ear placement for be...
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Translating Arabidopsis-based insights into gravitropic set-point a...
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Data-driven climate-smart strategies for boosting crop yield and mi...
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A Predictive Multiparameter Screening Model Identifies Prebiotics T...
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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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Transcription factors in phosphorus utilization: enhancing crop pro...
Every bag of fertilizer you pour on your garden represents mined phosphorus, a finite resource we...
Scientists publish a complete CRISPR recipe for editing corn DNA
Corn breeders now have a streamlined playbook for snipping out traits like susceptibility to drou...
Predicting complex phenotypes using multi-omics data in maize.
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Combining two soil additives keeps lead out of rice grains
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of ZmHMA3 reveals its essential role ...
Corn fields on former industrial sites or heavily fertilized soils can quietly accumulate toxic z...
More fertilizer helps maize roots, but fewer fungi species survive
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Solar panels over veggie crops could triple rural income
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A root-dwelling bacterium helps corn survive toxic, metal-laced soil
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Nanoparticle seed coating boosts corn yield and soil health
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Gypsum soil treatment helps corn shake off nickel pollution
If you garden near old industrial sites, roadways, or areas with heavy fertilizer or sludge use, ...
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...
Metal nanoparticles help crop seeds survive drought and salty soil
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Old fertilizer keeps polluting the air years later
The compost and fertilizer you spread this spring don't stop affecting the atmosphere when the gr...
Two corn hybrids beat drought using totally different survival tricks
If you've ever wondered why some drought-tough plants in your garden wilt dramatically while othe...
Tiny helper proteins could make crops tougher in a changing climate
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Pairing corn with a toxic-metal weed backfires for food safety
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Biogas waste beats fertiliser for soil, but needs cleanup first
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This gene family controls plant size and helps crops survive drought
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Nutrient-based nanoparticles help crops survive heat better than others
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Gene editing tweak makes cattle feed corn more nutritious
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Bacteria mix helps maize grow better with less fertilizer
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Root changes, not leaves, drive humic acid's boost to corn
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Corn's genetic defense system sometimes silences its own good genes
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Rwanda's irrigation lags far behind its farmland potential
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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 ...
New model predicts corn stress in salty farm soil daily
If you've ever watched a garden bed near a driveway or coastline struggle after road salt or seaw...
Root-damaging worms found lurking in Turkey's major crop fields
Soil that looks perfectly healthy on the surface can still be hosting microscopic worms quietly c...
Tiny AI model spots grain defects in maize, wheat, and rice with hi...
Cheaper, faster defect detection in grain harvests means fewer moldy or damaged kernels slipping ...
Two maize hybrids deliver steady yields across Bangladesh's varied farms
If you've ever watched the same crop thrive in one garden bed and flop in another, this study sho...
New open map dataset predicts crop yields across South Asia
If you've ever wondered how researchers forecast whether a drought will devastate rice paddies in...
