The Honduran agricultural minister has announced plans to push GM corn production, to face corn productivity crises.
... South Korea (AP) -- Major South Korean corn processors have begun importing genetically modified varieties of the crop because of shortages of conventional corn on the world market since China began ...
WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Little Bay- and GFCFDiet-brand bags of corn bread-muffin mix due to a labeling error.
... machinery. Several herbicides registered for use on sweet corn kill weeds but not the crop, thanks to protective ... rapidly degrade the chemicals. But some sweet corn hybrids aren't so lucky; they harbor ...
A new technique to obtain genetic markers to sort out corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera) populations has been developed. The new method is faster and cheaper than existing techniques, and it can be ...
Maize, commonly called corn in the US, is the third most important cereal in the world. It has a great number of advantages for molecular agriculture such as its capacity to express recombinant ...
... liquid, known as thin stillage, still contains some solids, a variety of organic compounds from corn and fermentation as well as enzymes. Because the compounds and solids can interfere with ethanol ...
... . The three organic systems differed in crop rotation length and complexity.
The study revealed that corn and soybean yields in organic systems were, on average, 76 and 82%, respectively, of those ...
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the voluntarily recall of 87 cases of Off the Cob-brand corn due to possible contamination.
... in organic agricultural systems over a ten year period. They found that longer, more complex rotations using corn, soybean, wheat, and hay offered up to 30 percent greater corn yield than a simple ...
Midwest floods have washed out millions of acres of corn, and many are urging Washington to allow corn to be grown on protected land and to roll back requirements for ethanol production.
Governors from the coal fields of West Virginia to the corn fields of Iowa talked at their summer meeting about moving beyond ethanol produced just from food sources.
... were actually equal to the best yields that had been obtained elsewhere with switchgrass," he said. Corn yields in Illinois are also among the best in the nation.
"One reason why Miscanthus yields ...
... Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is close to developing mutant yeast for ethanol production that would reduce or eliminate the need to use corn to make the alternative fuel.
... irrigation was reduced from 100 percent to 75 percent," Spinhirne said.
"Developing and using new corn hybrids with improved tolerance to drought and other stresses is important and a viable water- ...
