In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not 'naked' but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes. According to scientists in Germany, this ...

A local investor has set up a manufacturing company that will use maize cobs as raw material to produce various chemicals for industrial use. Bio-Corn Products EPZ, a subsidiary of Nairobi-based ...

Researchers who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310-year-old corn cob have discovered that the maize grown in central Mexico all those years ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to ...

A 1,000-year-old virus recovered from an ancient Native American settlement is the oldest plant virus ever found. Centuries ago, the ancestral Puebloan people living in what is now the southwestern ...

Maize farming communities often find themselves with an abundance of maize cobs, considered waste from the shelling or threshing process and typically burnt in the open air. Again, drudgery ...

As maize cultivation expands across Assam, climate shifts and rising pest attacks are eroding yields and farmer confidence.

Farmers harvesting maize later in October 2023 were plagued by wet and difficult conditions. “Maize was a lot riper than people thought it was. Farmers were put off harvesting because the fields still ...

This press release is available in German. In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not 'naked' but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes ...