AMES, Iowa – Sweet corn breeding has lagged behind advances in field corn due to its smaller market footprint, but an agronomist at Iowa State University is contributing to a national effort aimed at ...

AMES, Iowa -- It’s hard to beat fresh sweet corn in the summer. Or is it? Two Iowa State University faculty are part of a major federal research project aimed at boosting sweet corn quality, using the ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel composition, they can tailor corn for lucrative biotech applications, industrial ...

From left: Chris Mujjabi and Martin Bohn inspect an ear of corn. Bohn, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is leading a new USDA NIFA grant to improve genomic selection to create ...

For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement have been the domain of genetically modified plants: mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup.