University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel composition, they can tailor corn for lucrative biotech applications, industrial ...
Trait results in roots better able to capture more water and nutrients from soil, need less fertilizer, and withstand drought UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new discovery, reported in a global study that ...
URBANA, Ill. — When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the corn breeder knew he had stumbled on something ...
A new discovery, reported in a global study that encompassed more than a decade of research, could lead to the breeding of corn crops that can withstand drought and low-nitrogen soil conditions and ...