Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

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Open-pollinated corn, with its long ears of yellow, red or orange tinted kernels, was grown and harvested for the first time ...

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Artificial intelligence combined with genetic analysis has identified groups of genes and transcription factors, termed NUE regulons, that collectively control nitrogen use efficiency in corn.

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields ...

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As a result of artificial selection from breeding, certain breeds of these two species—which shared a common ancestor but have been evolutionarily separated for 50 million years—have converged ...

U.S. corn production is no small potatoes. In 2023 alone, corn farming contributed an estimated $151 billion to the U.S. economy, including $62 billion to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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