In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new breed of corn that reduces nitrogen loss. Connor Sible, research assistant professor in ACES, discussed his team’s ...

Corn is one of the world's most important crops, critical for food, feed, and industrial applications. In 2023, corn production in China alone accounted for 41% of total crop production, highlighting ...

The already sophisticated breeding systems for major commodity crops like Corn and Soybeans are being synergized through the use of genome editing technology Genome editing with CRISPR and other tools ...

Fargo - Corn may be king, but it hasn't conquered the cold. A North Dakota State University researcher aims to change that. Professor Marcelo Carena is breeding cold-tolerant, short-season, ...

Grace Breeding (TASE: GRAC), a forward-thinking AgClimateTech company developing biological-based agriculture products, unveils the latest results from its ongoing field study conducted, in ...

Technology used in the first draft of a corn genome, in 2009, identified a significant portion of corn’s wide variety of genetic material. Still, many genetic regions were too complex to be deciphered ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is investing in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that could expedite the development of ...

AMES, Iowa -- It’s hard to beat fresh sweet corn in the summer. Or is it? Two Iowa State University faculty are part of a major federal research project aimed at boosting sweet corn quality, using the ...

URBANA, Ill. — When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the corn breeder knew he had stumbled on something ...

A new discovery, reported in a global study that encompassed more than a decade of research, could lead to the breeding of corn crops that can withstand drought and low-nitrogen soil conditions and ...

As a leading company in seed research and production, Brian Barker joined the AgReliant Genetics team as CEO and president mid-2023. He shares what’s next for the industry and the company as they ...

ELDORA, Iowa — A 2.1-acre corn plot on Ron and Steve Brunk’s Eldora farm is not a high tech lab equipped with a gene gun, but important corn breeding work is under way all the same. The Brunks are ...