Plant corn with companion plants, also known as intercropping to grow a bountiful edible garden. Companion planting can ...

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 ...

Hidden underground, roots are basically the most undervalued part of a plant. But there is so much more to the important role ...

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 ...

F1 hybrid corn is the greediest of plants ... had at one time been fixed by soil bacteria living on the roots of leguminous plants (such as peas or alfalfa or locust trees) or, less commonly ...