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 ...
Corn is one of the world's most important crops, critical for food, feed, and industrial applications. In 2023, corn ...
AMES, Iowa -- It’s hard to beat fresh sweet corn in the summer. Or is it? Two Iowa State University faculty are part of a major federal research project aimed at boosting sweet corn quality, using the ...
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 ...
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 ...