Growth and development of all organisms depends on coordinated regulation of gene expression in time and space, and this is largely controlled by non-coding sequences in the genome. A major challenge ...

Maize as we know it only became suitable for food after the tiny, hard, inedible ears of teosinte, the ancestor of corn, evolved, with the help of the first Mexican farmers, into the large, luscious ...

This press release is available in German. In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not 'naked' but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes ...

Furthermore, the exact role of AUX1 in grass shoot development was unclear, although a putative role in leaf primordia differentiation has been described 9. In this issue, Huang and colleagues 1 ...

A team of researchers has mapped out the non-coding, 'functional' genome in maize during an early developmental window critical to formation of pollen-bearing tassels and grain-bearing ears. Growth ...

Scientists are interested in understanding genetic control of grass inflorescence architecture because seeds of cereal grasses (e.g. rice, wheat, maize) provide most of the world's food. Grass seeds ...