UC Davis graduate student Michelle Stitzer records the GPS coordinates of an individual Zea mays plant in a field in eastern Jalisco, Mexico, to investigate hybridization between maize and its wild ...

During domestication, maize underwent a dramatic transformation in both plant and inflorescence architecture as compared to its wild progenitor, teosinte 10. Like many wild grasses, teosinte has a ...

Among the hundreds of plants that have been domesticated in the New World, none has received as much attention or been subject to as much debate as corn, or maize (Zea mays L.), arguably the most ...

Scientists have concluded that during the Late Archaic, maize (corn) was a primary component in the diet of people living in the Norte Chico region of Peru, an area of remarkable cultural florescence ...

It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall ...