AMES, Iowa – Sweet corn breeding has lagged behind advances in field corn due to its smaller market footprint, but an agronomist at Iowa State University is contributing to a national effort aimed at ...

From left: Chris Mujjabi and Martin Bohn inspect an ear of corn. Bohn, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is leading a new USDA NIFA grant to improve genomic selection to create ...

A new discovery, reported in a global study that encompassed more than a decade of research, could lead to the breeding of corn crops that can withstand drought and low-nitrogen soil conditions and ...

URBANA, Ill. - With approximately 80 percent of our nation's water supply going towards agriculture, it's fair to say it takes a lot of water to grow crops. In a climate with less predictable rainfall ...

Total seed protein in modern hybrid and inbred varieties of corn is three times lower than that of its wild ancestor, teosinte. The reasons were unknown, until now. A gene on chromosome nine called ...

For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement have been the domain of genetically modified plants: mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup.