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 ...

When selecting hybrids, you're continuing work that started over 100 years ago with innovators seeking better than ...

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 ...

A new discovery, reported in a global study that encompassed more than a decade of research, could lead to the breeding of corn crops that can withstand drought and low-nitrogen soil conditions and ...

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.