Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines
A Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) researcher at Cornell University has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not only will allow researchers to study the effects of knocking out the function of single genes, one at a time, but also will create seeds for each mutation, or disrupted gene. The seeds will be made widely available to r...Genetically modified maize not found in southern Mexico
Contrary to what many scientists thought, genetically modified (GM) corn has not yet spread to native maize crops in southern Mexico. The finding surprised the researchers, said Allison Snow,...Kenya halts first field trials of GM maize
Kenyan authorities began destroying the country's first genetically modified (GM) maize growing in open field trials. Wilson Songa, Kenya's agriculture secretary and chair of the Natio...University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome
Researchers at The University of Arizona's plant sciences department and UA's BIO5 Institute have received a $29 million federal grant as part of a consortium to unlock the genetic code of the corn plant. The knowledge gained from the Maize Genome Sequencing Project will enable plant scientists and breeders to improve agronomically important traits in cereal crops more rapidly. The Nationa...Mummy's amazing American maize
The far-reaching influence of Spanish and Portuguese colonisers appears not to have extended to South American agriculture, scientists studying a 1,400-year-old Andean mummy have found. The University of Manchester researchers compared the DNA of ancient maize found in the funerary offerings of the mummy and at other sites in northwest Argentina with that grown in the same region today. ...Maize microRNA Microarray from LC Sciences
Description:Microarrays designed for genome-wide microRNA expression profiling and built on the flexible and powerful Paraflo microfluidic on-chip synthesis platform. These microarrays are available as part of our comprehensive microRNA Expression Profiling Service. The Maize microRNA Microarray contains all known maize microRNAs (43 unique mature sequences). The comprehensive...Single gene controls key difference between maize and its wild ancestor
While many biologists argue that teosinte, a wild Mexican grass, is the progenitor of maize, others believe that the differences between...First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa
Scientists at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and colleagues at the South African seed company, PANNAR Pty Ltd, have reportedly developed a resistant variety of maize that could alleviate both food shortages and promote genetically engineered (GE) foods in Africa. The MSV-resistant maize is the first GE crop developed and tested solely by Africans. Accordin...