Corn takes on myriad configurations, from the classic corn on the cob to popcorn to more processed options including corn flour and corn syrup. How, then, do you classify such a versatile food?

Modern corn comes from hybrid corn humans bred around ... with the oldest specimens ever found being 5,600 years old and coming from a New Mexican cave. A lot of what we've described about flint ...

They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern man ... up the 4,000-year old puzzle, but it has been ...

By mating modern corn and teosinte, a synthetic hybrid corn ... The discovery of the 60,000 year-old pollen last year was the final evidence the scientists needed to prove that corn originated ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new nitrogen-retaining corn breed.