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 ...

Ibarra, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at University of California, Davis, as a member. His election ...

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 ...

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, ...