News tagged with corn hybrids

Sweeten up your profits with the right hybrid

New University of Illinois sweet corn research shows that higher yield and profitability are possible with greater plant populations of certain hybrids.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quarter of a century of sweet corn observations

For more than a quarter of a century, Jerald "Snook" Pataky's research in the University of Illinois Sweet Corn Hybrid Disease Nursery has been helping growers make important decisions to increase their profitability.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Corn silage hybrids and seeding rates

Recent studies report that corn hybrids released in the late 2000s, especially Bt hybrids, require higher seeding rates than commercial hybrids released in the 1990s to reach maximum yields. Expectedly, corn seeding rates ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corn yields with perennial cover crop are equal to traditional farming

Soil quality, water quality, and possibly even farm profits will all benefit by using a perennial cover crop on corn fields that allows for similar yields to traditional farming methods, according to Iowa ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




Search results for corn hybrids


5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops shown in new study

The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study on using cover crops between rows of corn reveals that higher yields – by as much as 10 percent – are possible using the ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

'Rules' may govern genome evolution in young plant species

A new University of Florida study shows a hybrid plant species may experience rapid genome evolution in predictable patterns, meaning evolution repeats itself in populations of independent origin.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Two-timing and hybrids: Researchers look back on 100 million years of evolution

For about 100 million years, grass smut fungi have been breeding in a three-gender system. This was discovered by Dr. Ronny Kellner and professor Dr. Dominik Begerow of the RUB Geobotany Laboratory in cooperation with colleagues ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good parents are predictable -- at least when it comes to corn

In order to breed new varieties of corn with a higher yield faster than ever before, researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, and other institutions are relying on a trick: early selection of the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research on newly formed plants could lead to improved crop fertility

A new University of Florida study shows genomes of a recently formed plant species to be highly unstable, a phenomenon that may have far-reaching evolutionary consequences.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn

(AP) -- One of the nation's most widely planted crops - a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide - may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Stronger corn? Take it off steroids, make it all female

A Purdue University researcher has taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements in that and other crops.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do long-lived crops differ from annual crops in their genetic response to human domestication?

Most of what we have come to think of as our daily fruits, vegetables, and grains were domesticated from wild ancestors. Over hundreds and thousands of years, humans have selected and bred plants for traits ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

AgriLife Research project shows maximum irrigation and plant populations not necessary for corn

Corn research studies conducted at the North Plains Research Field near Etter are showing that maximum irrigation and high plant populations don’t always produce the most economical or water-use efficient ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Consumers willing to pay premium for healthier genetically modified foods: study

Consumers are eager to get their hands on, and teeth into, foods that are genetically modified to increase health benefits – and even pay more for the opportunity.

Biology / Other

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2


List of search results for corn hybrids