This story is one of a series about how hidden innovations produce the foods we eat at the prices we pay. It has been edited for length and clarity. As told to Krithika Varagur. I’ve been a farmer for ...

Senior maize breeder at the IIMR, Bhupender Kumar, said a field trial was undertaken during the late kharif season in August ...

Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, has three times the seed protein content of most modern maize strains. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters tracked down the mechanisms ...

Because Kenya’s agriculture is rain-fed, local breeders for maize seeds mould their research to fit into rain patterns in various parts of the country. For this reason, breeders concentrate ...

Policymakers and industry stakeholders say it is time to unlock maize’s untapped potential, calling for better crop ...

Murang’a Governor Irungu Kang’ata led the month-long seeds distribution to registered farmers in the villages. [File, Standard] More than 70,000 smallholders farmers in Murang’a have received ...

Maize is a staple food crop for many subsistence farmers. Destructive pests have emerged causing crop losses.The cheering news is that scientists have developed disease-resistant varieties of maize.

Using foliar feeds on maize challenged by soil nutrient deficiencies and drought increased yield by 36t/ha on a Welsh ...

Researchers identified a maize mutant, ven2, with impaired sucrose metabolism, leading to changes in protein accumulation. The study highlights the role of the transcription factor SRF1 in translating ...

The Federal Director of Agriculture in Abia State, Mr Simeon Oziri, is worried over scarcity of improved maize seeds in the state. In an interview in Umuahia, the state capital,after reviewing the ...