Mexico has amended its Constitution to recognise native corn as part of its national identity and has banned genetically ...

Originally domesticated in the Balsas River Basin in Guerrero from a species of teosinte called parviglumis, corn was a wonder of the ancient world. It took over 1200 years to spread as far as ...

In a new study, the Gingeras and Martienssen labs analyzed regulatory sequences across five different tissue types from three strains of maize and its ancestor teosinte. They found hundreds of ...

This useful study examines patterns of diversity and divergence in two closely related sub-species of Zea mays, patterns that have bearings on local adaptation in maize and teosinte at intermediate ...

Photo: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT Maize ears of many colours and shapes. The germplasm bank of Mexico’s International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre contains 28 000 samples of cultivated maize ...

Trypanosomes are single-celled parasites that infect a range of animal hosts. These parasites need a molecule called haem to grow properly and are mostly spread by insects that feed on the blood of ...