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

Corn, or maize, is an unusual product of ... However, there are some disadvantages of artificial selection, especially in the case of inbreeding. Through inbreeding, two closely related organisms ...

her student Joe Gage and colleagues at several institutions report that artificial selection by crop breeders has constricted the pool of possibilities for North American corn varieties.

This one, for instance, shows how corn has changed in the last 9,000 years — from a wild grass in the early Americas known as teosinte to the plump ears of corn we know today: The evolution of ...

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 ...