The flavonoids that provide insecticide-like protection to some corn lines against corn earworm larvae also provide pigments to the plants that show up in the silks, husks and kernels. Pictured ...

That’s one question artists Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin had in mind when they hatched their “food map” series—a collection ... medium an assemblage of corn varieties and corn ...

--Corn for May delivery rose 1.8% to $4.82 1/2 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Thursday, after the USDA reduced its outlook for corn ending stocks and raised its forecast for export ...

This includes characteristics like how many ears of corn a plant has and how large those ... "What this study shows is that, actually, most phenotypic variation comes from changes to regulation ...