Let’s unravel The Fascinating History of Popcorn and learn the full story of how this seemingly whimsical food came to be.

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Forest department officials from Thoothukudi district have sent hair and tissue samples of pigs to Advanced ...

Protecting native maize diversity is one of the key arguments behind Mexico’s constitutional ban on genetically modified corn ...

Scientists uncover how humans cultivated avocado in ancient Honduras, thousands of years before staple crops like maize and ...

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

And who discovered that popcorn could be a toasty, tasty treat? These kinds of food mysteries are pretty hard to solve. Archaeology depends on solid remains to figure out what happened in the past, ...

The domestication of maize, a significant evolutionary event, transformed it from an inedible crop to a major food source. A new genomic project, MaizeCODE, aims to uncover the genetic basis of ...

Partially domesticated maize is found in caves in Minas Gerais state, Brazil Archeological samples of grains, straw and cobs collected from caves in Peruaçu Valley have primitive traits ...

Maize can grow successfully in very different local conditions. ... Li M, et al. Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion. Nat Genet. 2024.