There are far more types of corn in the world than you probably supposed, so we wanted to bring you a list of 12 popular ones and how to use them. If you've only ever tried sweet corn and popcorn ...

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

For popcorn breeding in general, this also shows the potential for mining other traits from dent corn into popcorn to improve the crop's agronomic performance." ...

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?

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.

Dent corn is deficient in lysine, but researchers in the 1990s bred a gene variant known as opaque-2 into dent corn, which led to higher levels of two essential amino acids: lysine and tryptophan.

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.

Back in the 1990s, scientists introduced a gene variant called opaque-2 into a variety of non -popping corn known as dent corn.