Tag: maize

Maize roots secrete certain chemicals that affect the quality of soil. In some fields, this effect increases yields of wheat ...

Almost all of Africa’s maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new ...

Over 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on maize for nearly 30% of their caloric intake, and the ...

URBANA, Ill. – Many maize farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa sell their crop at harvest, often because they need funds to ...

Efforts to improve the yields of staple cereal crops like maize and rice at scale in Africa remain seriously hampered ...

At today’s backyard barbeques, we enjoy corn on the cob with hundreds of sweet juicy kernels. But if we were ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University show that an important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates certain chemical processes that ...

Plant colonisation by biotrophic pathogens requires sophisticated strategies for tissue invasion, defence suppression and metabolic manipulation to loot nutrients necessary ...

Researchers comparing domestication pathways between maize and rice – two of the world’s most economically important crops – identified a ...

Maize, or corn, is cultivated globally, as food, feedstock, and biofuel source, and is one of the most widely produced ...

Nanoparticles, or particles whose size varies between 1 and 100 nanometers, have shown tremendous potential in many areas of science ...

CABI has contributed to new research which highlights the importance of and need for host plant resistance for fall armyworm ...

For centuries, the vast physical diversity of maize, the most popular cereal grain crop globally, has fascinated biologists and plant ...