Dent corn, a worldwide crop and the signature variety of the Midwest, is deficient in lysine. But in the 1990s, researchers successfully bred a gene variant known as opaque-2 into dent corn.

Popcorn is an iconic movie night snack and can be flavored in all sorts of ways. But, what type of corn does popcorn come from and how do you make it pop?

Chef Ashish Alfred, who co-hosts the show Bar Rescue, is also #TeamBoiling. “If you actually want to taste the corn, boiling ...

Holding’s research team then cross-bred multiple generations of the QPM dent corn with other popcorn varieties, which led to high-lysine quality protein popcorn (QPP). It pops.

Back in the 1990s, scientists introduced a gene variant called opaque-2 into a variety of non-popping corn known as dent corn. Doing so almost doubled the plant's production of lysine, which is an ...

The most common type for home gardeners to grow is sweet corn, which is the delicious variety we eat on the cob. Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.

Beard said he makes $50 an acre extra by growing popcorn rather than regular field, or dent, corn on his land. He likes the thought that his corn ends up in America’s top popcorn brand.