The mesocotyl, a crucial organ for cereal crops, plays a key role in seedling establishment by pushing buds out of the soil during germination. In arid/semiarid or cold regions, mesocotyl length is a ...
The National Academy of Sciences has elected Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at University of California, Davis, as a member. His election was announced April ...
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra has received a prestigious award from the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the evolution of maize. (Sasha Bakhter, UC Davis) Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, a professor in the ...
Maize is a staple food all over the world. In the United States, where it’s better known as corn, nearly 90 million acres were planted in 2018, earning $47.2 billion in crop cash receipts. But, under ...
The drier the region, the fewer seminal roots the maize varieties cultivated there had on average (black figure; the pie chart shows the proportion of varieties with up to one seminal root in yellow, ...