A new study presents a zero-shot learning (ZSL) framework for maize cob phenotyping, enabling the extraction of geometric ...

A 1,000-year-old virus recovered from an ancient Native American settlement is the oldest plant virus ever found. Centuries ago, the ancestral Puebloan people living in what is now the southwestern ...

Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world’s most important food crops. By reconstructing the ...

A local investor has set up a manufacturing company that will use maize cobs as raw material to produce various chemicals for industrial use. Bio-Corn Products EPZ, a subsidiary of Nairobi-based ...

Researchers who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310-year-old corn cob have discovered that the maize grown in central Mexico all those years ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to ...

Researchers think that cultivating maize may have given rise to important ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica, like the Aztec. (Photo by Douglas J. Kennett via Courthouse News) New analysis of ...

In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not 'naked' but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes. According to scientists in Germany, this ...

Inhabitants of southern Mexico began to cultivate maize, the major grain crop of prehistoric societies in the Americas, by at least 6,300 years ago, a new study finds. This is around 800 years earlier ...

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