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Experience the efficiency of the Fendt 936 tractor as it drills maize with precision, ensuring optimal crop growth.
Greetings from the maize field: in York, England, the heroes from the movie "Toy Story" become a maze. The occasion is a ...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Our Pet Pal of the Week is Maize from the Chesapeake Humane Society. Maize is a 2-year-old Great ...
The “jumping genes” of maize have finally been mapped by an international team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The discovery could ...
Malawi is losing about 29 metric tonnes (MT) of soil per hectare every year, a situation that is reducing the expected yield ...
Maize as we know it looks very different from its wild ancestor. The ancient cob is less than a 10th of the size of modern corn cobs, at about 2cm (0.8inch) long.
In order to trace maize’s paternity, botanists led by my colleague John Doebley of the University of Wisconsin rounded up more than 60 samples of teosinte from across its entire geographic range ...
What Ancient Maize Can Tell Us About Thousands of Years of Civilization in America It took millennia, but America’s founding farmers developed the grain that would fuel civilizations—and still ...