Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...

Some of Ethiopia’s most cultivated hybrid maize varieties include BH546, BH547, MH140, MH130, MHQ138, Melkassa-1Q, BH540 and ...

Helen Anne Curry receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Last summer I grew three varieties of corn in my tiny garden. I knew from the start that my harvest, if any, would be meagre. The plants ...

The drier the region, the fewer seminal roots the maize varieties cultivated there had on average (black figure; the pie chart shows the proportion of varieties with up to one seminal root in yellow, ...

Maize is a staple food all over the world. In the United States, where it’s better known as corn, nearly 90 million acres were planted in 2018, earning $47.2 billion in crop cash receipts. But, under ...

William Chebusit,64,a former Councillor with his maize farm at Elenerai In Narok West.He lost several heads of beef cattle to deadly lumpy skin disease but that never stopped him from pursuing beef ...

HyeJin Lee does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The mesocotyl, a crucial organ for cereal crops, plays a key role in seedling establishment by pushing buds out of the soil during germination. In arid/semiarid or cold regions, mesocotyl length is a ...

Dr Eliud Kireger, Director General, Kenya Agriculture Research and Livestock Organisation (KALRO), explains the new technology, Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) for hybrid maize seeds at ...