Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, has three times the seed protein content of most modern maize strains. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters tracked down the mechanisms ...
Maize is a globally cultivated staple crop and one of the most successful examples of heterosis utilization in food production. The development of elite inbred lines is critical for breeding hybrid ...
A recent study offers a promising strategy to protect food security and safety of maize in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on maize for nearly 30% of ...
NESS ZIONA, Israel, and HAUT-MAUCO, France, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a leading international genomics AI company, and Mas Seeds, an international seed company with activities ...
AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are more resilient and productive. But the intricate interplay ...
A new study presents a zero-shot learning (ZSL) framework for maize cob phenotyping, enabling the extraction of geometric traits and estimation of yields in both laboratory and field settings without ...
Water scarcity has become a critical constraint on global agricultural production. Particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, major crops such ...