G rowing corn in a small backyard plot is totally doable if you plan carefully and give the plants what they need to thrive.

Larger-sized pollen particles have a difficult time traveling or staying in the air. "We have a lot of corn here in Ohio and corn pollen is going to be toward the larger end of the range ...

From here, corn spread across the continent ... Martienssen and graduate student Ben Berube sequenced the genomes from hundreds of pollen grains of the semi-sterile offspring.

What prompted the fuss? By claiming that a gene for a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxic protein makes corn pollen poisonous to Monarch butterflies,1 Losey's team ignited another round in the volatile ...