The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial ...

Quiet brilliance. Like Gregor Mendel before her, Barbara McClintock quietly dedicated most of her scientific life to the study of one plant, and her discoveries revealed important genetic secrets.

A genetic link between Northern Flints and 1,000-year-old Ozark maize By reconstructing the genomes of archaeological maize cobs and kernels, the study reveals that 1,000-year-old maize from ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

Ds Genetic location on the short arm of chromosome ... transposition at different stages of seed development, the genes of maize kernels are capable of producing a variety of coloration patterns.

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

No one believed Barbara McClintock in 1951 when she first described DNA that "jumped" from site to site within maize chromosomes, altering the expression of genes near the sites of integration. In due ...

A new study has lifted the lid on five species of root-lesion nematodes living in maize crops across New Zealand—and suggested the existence of a hitherto-unsuspected cryptic species ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Results prove that inversions can be generated in plants without causing further unwanted changes in the expression of genetic information.