A reduction in number and an increase in size of inflorescences is a common aspect of plant domestication. When maize was domesticated from teosinte, the number and arrangement of ears changed dramatically. Teosinte has long lateral branches that bear multiple small ears at their nodes and tassels at their tips. Maize has much shorter lateral branches that are tipped by a single large ear with ...

Genetically engineered maize (Zea mays) containing insecticidal endotoxin proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) delta-endotoxin proteins has been adopted widely in the Midwestern United States. The proteins are toxic to several lepidopteran species and because a variety of maize tissues, including pollen, may express the endotoxins, the probability of exposure to nontarget species, includin...

This report analyses the process of adoption by farmers of the only GM crop cultivated in Europe. Bt maize is a transgeniccrop resistant to an important group of pests (the maize borers). The study also provides the first large-scale empiricalevidence on the agronomic and economic performance of this crop in the EU. The research was carried out in Spain, theEU member state with ...

in order to investigate the effects of biological and chemical phosphorous fertilizers and various proportions of maize and grass pea intercropping on yield and yield components of both crops, two experiments were conducted simultaneously in research farm of kerman university and commercial convention farm of bardsir-dashtkar in 2009-2010. the experimental design at two regions was randomized c...

Abstr act. Cooperating with Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Administrative Bureau of Dingxing County, Hebei province, we applied the agricultural information software of Digital Maize Planting and Management System to guide local maize production. This system can direct the maize production during the whole course including digital simulation and design of maize production, planting plan befor...

Increasing the nutritional value of maize grain may contribute to improved human nutrition and health. Although maize is widely grown both for human consumption and for animal feed, maize is an inadequate source of essential amino acids in many diets. Maize protein is deficient in lysine and tryptophan, and in many poultry diets, maize protein is inadequate in the sulfur amino acids (methionine...

Using a farm household data from 3 agroecological zones of Ghana, this paper investigates the causal relationship between the adoption of improved maize variety and technical efficiency or productivity. The empirical results show a positive relationship between the adoption of improved maize variety and technical efficiency or productivity of farmers in the Semi-deciduous forest and Guinea Sava...

Recent sequencing efforts have targeted the gene-rich regions of the maize (Zea mays L.) genome. We report the release of an improved assembly of maize assembled genomic islands (MAGIs). The 114,173 resulting contigs have been subjected to computational and physical quality assessments. Comparisons to the sequences of maize bacterial artificial chromosomes suggest that at least 97% (160 of 165)...

Objectives of this study were to understand how opaque-2 (o2) mutation and quality protein maize (QPM) affect maize kernel composition and starch structure, property, and enzyme digestibility. Kernels of o2 maize contained less protein (9.6-12.5%) than those of the wild-type (WT) counterparts (12.7-13.3%). Kernels of a severe o2 mutant B46o2 also contained less starch (66.9%) than those of B46w...

For the first time in its history, the Annual Maize Genetics Conference was held in Mexico City, near the center of origin for many Zea species, including maize. Maize research has made many contributions to our understanding of plant physiology and development, the regulation of transposable elements and chromosome structure, and the epigenetic control of gene expression. In addition to the re...