Growing Christmas trees and making a maize maze - a quick Q&A with Andrew McAllister: How many hectares of Christmas trees do you grow? There's 22 hectares of land and we've got about nine hectares in ...

Maize, diverted for ethanol production, has caused poultry feed costs to go up, impacted cooking oil prices, and reduced oilseed farmers' profits. The ethanol program has led to consequences like ...

When ripe, the fruit detaches from the stem and ejects seeds in a high-pressure jet of 'mucilage' – the thick gluey substance produced by nearly all plants. Despite intriguing scientists for ...

Brazilian scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the history of maize, also known as corn. They’ve found traces of this ancient, partially domesticated plant in Brazil, which is farther ...

Despite efforts that began in 2021, researchers have exposed the persisting 'mucilage' problem across the Marmara Sea, which they suggest requires immediate attention The mucilage (marine mucus) ...

Observations of developing conidia utilizing transmitted light are inhibited by the mucilage secreted around the acervulus that was previously described (Moraes, 1980; Sugui et al., 1998). However, ...