"So the reason your corn looks like that is due to something called transposons, or 'jumping genes'." ...

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Corn is one of the planet's most important crops. It not only provides sweet kernels to flavor many dishes, but it's also used in oils, as a sweetener syrup, and as a feed crop for livestock. Corn has ...

Seed corn genetics are better than ever today, but even science has not outwitted old Mother Nature. In a fit of fury, she can deliver her wrath on a field of seed corn planted too soon and make you ...

Purple corn, commonly known as maiz morado, has more antioxidants than blueberries. Researchers at the University of Missouri are trying to grow a similar corn here in the United States. Missouri is ...

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