Its name comes from a Náhuatl word (teocintli) meaning "grass of the gods." Modern corn comes from hybrid corn humans bred around 5,000 years ago in Mexico. Scientifically, the corn we eat today ...

By Adam D. Williams This month, Mexico’s two legislative houses are expected to approve an amendment that will prohibit the ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

Some were round — not the oval you see today. Selective breeding has made the spines disappear from modern eggplants. Wild corn was dry as a raw potato. Modern corn was first domesticated 8,000 ...

At the same time, the scientists also said that corn is not a descendant of a Mexican grass called teosinte. This grain, however, has had an important place in the development of modern corn ...

Corn (or maize) was first cultivated by humans about 10,000 years ago in Mexico from a wild grass called teosinte (which doesn’t look much like modern corn at all). And it seems that people ...

The development of modern corn grown in the U.S., a major crop often grown on highly fertile agricultural lands, may have weakened the plants’ water-seeking root response, the researchers said.