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 ...
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 ...
Mid-summer corn on the cob is everywhere, but where did it all come from and how did it get to be the big, sweet, yellow ears we eat today? Some of the answers come from carbon dating ancient maize ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Archaeologists show that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. New research published this week by University of ...
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