Maize

...took money from the homes. Police said she hit at least three houses in Wichita and is suspected in similar crimes in Goddard and Maize. The woman was taken into custody Thursday night. Information from: The Wichita Eagle,...

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...on a light, during night time visits to the bathroom. The drought has affected between 70 and 80 per cent of crops, including maize and rice in the heart of Venezuela's cereal production, according to Vicente Figuera, head of the...

In this article: Venezuela, Potato, Ice cream, Cattle, UN Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs, and Hugo Chavez

...map "will help develop molecular markers and tools that breeders and geneticists around the world can use to study maize and improve maize varieties," said Ed Buckler, the paper's senior author, a USDA-ARS research geneticist in Cornell's...

In this article: USDA, E mail, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of California-Davis, National Science Foundation, and Agricultural Research Service

...efforts to understand maize evolution and the genetic basis of complex traits that may prove key to maize improvement," Ross-Ibarra said. Maize (Zea mays L.), with its genome of an estimated 30,000 genes distributed along 10 chromosomes,...

In this article: U.S. Department of Agriculture, E mail, University of Missouri, University of Arizona, University of California, Davis, Cornell University, University of Columbia, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

...also co-authored a companion study with the UA's Carol Soderlund that identified sets of characteristics that are unique to maize. The maize genome - which contains its entire set of DNA - is the biggest plant genome decoded so far, he...

In this article: TUC, Washington University in St. Louis, and New York

...November 20, 2009, issue of Science. This new genome sequence reports the sequence of genes in maize and provides a detailed physical map of the maize genome. This map identifies the order in which genes are located along each of maize's 10...

In this article: USDA, Iowa State University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Climate change, Nitrogen, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Arizona, Cornell University, and National Science Foundation

...of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize (Zea mays). Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important...

In this article: USDA, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States, Iowa State University, and Chimpanzee

...St. Louis, Missouri, said Thursday they had identified some 32,000 DNA sequences, or genes, in the 10 chromosomes that make up the genome of maize, the largest of any plant examined so far. By comparison, the human genome includes 20,000...

In this article: Washington University in St. Louis, Climate change, United States, University of Arizona, Iowa State University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

EU ambassadors failed to approve a genetically-modified maize made by Swiss firm Syngenta <SYNN.VX> in talks on Friday, meaning the application will now be sent to EU ministers for a decision next week. "There is no qualified majority...

In this article: EU, Soybean, Genetically modified food, Syngenta, Europe, and Spain

...future breeding and response to problems ... for example in response to climate change," said maize expert Kevin Pixley, at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Texcoco, where the bank lies among fields of maize.

In this article: Mexico, Greenpeace, United States, Cattle, Climate change, and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center