In a stunning discovery — both in agricultural sophistication and geographic location — researchers have found ancestors of the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin were growing tropical corn in Michigan’s ...

Corn plant, or cornstalk Dracaena, has the scientific name of Dracaena fragrans and is a beautiful plant. This past week a friend on Facebook had a picture of the plant in bloom; one of the readers ...

MADISON (WKOW) — Scientists from UW-Madison, along with those from other American universities, have identified varieties of tropical corn from Oaxaca, Mexico, that can acquire a significant amount of ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many plants respond to herbivory by releasing a specific blend of volatiles that is attractive to natural enemies of the herbivores. In corn ...

Iowa farmers who disked under thousands of acres of corn flattened in last summer's derecho could soon get access to plants that proved more resistant to the hurricane-force winds. Bayer AG, the ...

Researchers discovered an extensive ancient maize farming site in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, challenging previous beliefs about agriculture in northern latitudes. The site, dating back 1,000 years, ...