ANCIENT MAIZE Genome sequence of a 5,310-year-old maize cob provides new insights into the early stages of maize domestication. The specimen is important because it dates to a point in time ...

MADISON, Wis. - Ten thousand years ago, a golden grain got naked, brought people together and grew to become one of the top agricultural commodities on the planet. Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Nothing says summer like a sweet ear of corn. But that treat would be much harder to eat if it weren’t for a crucial mutation. The change, in just one letter of the DNA code, appears to have cracked ...

Corn is one of the world’s most important crops. We don’t just pop it and munch it on the cob; corn can be turned into flour and syrup, it is fed to livestock, it is transformed into ethanol and it ...