For more about Gardens for Health, click here. There's something about planting maize that lends itself to a particular teamwork. It is early morning, and we are just outside Kigali, Rwanda, observing ...

A common strategy to create high-yielding plants is hybrid breeding. However, getting the inbred lines in the first place can be a hassle. In maize, the use of so-called 'haploid inducers' provides a ...

Plant geneticists have successfully demonstrated what it describes as a "simple hypothesis" for making significant increases in yields for the maize plant. A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring ...