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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The development of modern corn grown in the U.S., a major crop often grown on highly fertile agricultural lands, may have weakened the plants' water-seeking root response, the researchers said.

Current traditions that revolve around corn are rooted in customs that were born long ago thanks to groups in Mesoamerica, ...

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

A study has identified key genetic pathways in corn that help its roots branch out to find water in soil; the varieties adapted to temperate regions like the U.S. corn belt showed large differences in ...