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 ...

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 ...

For only Sh40, you can buy a well-roasted maize cob at the junction of Koinange Street and University Way. Maize is finally mainstream. I bought a cob and enjoyed it, more so with some pilipili ...

Researchers think that cultivating maize may have given rise to important ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica, like the Aztec. (Photo by Douglas J. Kennett via Courthouse News) New analysis of ...

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 ...

Protecting crops against pests and diseases is essential to ensure a secure food supply. Around 95 percent of food comes from conventional agriculture, which uses chemical pesticides to keep crops ...

WHILE accepting the American origin of maize, the question of its existence in Europe before the days of Columbus has been revived by recent archæological finds in Yoruba territory. Goodwin (ref. 1, ...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Science reports that two teams of scientists examined ancient cobs from Mexico for clues to the transformation of a grass called teosinte into domesticated maize. Jean Philippe ...

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 ...