A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...

The root of a corn plant injured by corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Midwest. Photo by Erin Hodgson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed ...

restricted root growth and a build-up of sugars due to sunny days and cold nights. With phosphorous deficiency, corn plants will be stunted with thin stalks. Therefore, it becomes important to ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...

You want nutrients where corn roots can "luxury feed" on them without expending energy going and looking for them, say yield ...