There is nothing more attractive to the corn earworm than tasseling and silking sweet corn. An adult female can lay between 500 and 3,000 eggs singly instead of in egg masses like the fall armyworm or ...

Figure 1. Corn plant in the 5-leaf growth stage. (Tip of Leaf 5 no longer points upward, so it is the "indicator Leaf.") In some situations (particularly as the plant nears tasseling), Leaf 1 may have ...

W hether you call it elotes or Mexican street corn, this recipe is an undeniably popular antojito—"little craving"— or street ...

T he physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches—makes a big difference for yield. Compact plants can ...

Severe outbreaks of the disease can cause up to 30-50% yield loss in dent corn if the disease is established before tassel [1]. NCLB also causes significant reduction in quality in sweet corn and ...

Their study, “Regulatory variation controlling architectural pleiotropy” recently published in the journal, Nature Communications, sheds new light on how genes governing leaf angle and tassel ...