Maize can grow successfully in very different local conditions. An international study headed by the University of Bonn has now demonstrated the important role of the plant root system. The ...

Gloucestershire is the driest county in the West, with less rainfall then Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol, Met Office statistics show. And a particularly dry spring followed by a hot June has resulted ...

Despite years of experience, Charlei Sousa finds himself struggling to grow maize. A lack of rain took half his last crop, and he says uneven rainfall has for years become a worsening problem in ...

In rural Tanzania, farming is a way of life. Families pass down traditional knowledge to help grow crops like beans and maize ...

Maize can’t exist without people, and in many places, people can’t exist without maize. “If you leave a cornfield alone, in a couple of years, there’ll be nothing there, and in the same vein, you ...

Scientists are perplexed by the unexpected lineage of potatoes, tracing its origins back to a surprising ancestor from nine ...