Corn, or maize, is an unusual product of selective ... However, there are some disadvantages of artificial selection, especially in the case of inbreeding. Through inbreeding, two closely related ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that ...

This genetic alteration has led to organisms, such as domestic dogs and maize, that are dramatically different from their wild progenitors. Traditional artificial selection can lead to outcomes ...

It took serious sleuthing by geneticists, botanists, and archaeologists to figure out that maize split off from teosinte grass some 9,000 years ago. (The two are surprisingly similar at the DNA ...

Researchers showed that maize underwent selection as it was transported from the US Southwest across the Great Plains, particularly through a gene, known as waxy1. Genetic variants in the waxy1 ...