If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

Sweet corn needs about 1 inch of rain a week ... to show tassels (strands at the top of the plant), wind blows the pollen from the tassels to the silks of the just-forming ears.

Sweet corn comes in a range of kernel colors: yellow, white, and bicolor (yellow and white). Here's a short video about preparing sweet corn. Sweet corn is most often eaten cooked. Peel or “shuck” the ...

Discovery of fossilized grains of 60,000 year old corn pollen 200 feet beneath Mexico City last year has definitely established that corn is a native of the Western Hemisphere and did not ...

Despite some uncertainties, the monarch butterfly faces little threat from genetically modified (GM) strains of corn, according to new research presented at a symposium sponsored by the ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower ... SWEET SECRET: If you plant a super sweet corn variety (noted on the seed package or in the vegetable description), it must be isolated from ...