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Stronger corn? Take it off steroids, make it all female

A Purdue University researcher has taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements in that and other crops.

Burkhard Schulz, an assistant professor of horticulture and landscape architecture, wanted to understand the relationship between natural brassinosteroids - a natural plant steroid hormone - and plant architecture, specifically plant height. Schulz said corn could benefit by becoming shorter and sturdier, but the mechanisms that control those traits are not completely understood.



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    How to grow 300-bu. corn

    Increasing corn yields to the elusive 300-bu. mark is often fraught with problems. Fred Below, University of Illinois crop scientist, identifies seven factors that affect high yields and discusses these in his talk "The seven wonders of high-yield corn production."...More
  • Sep. 16, 2011
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    Did corn-on-corn pay better this year?

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  • Sep. 16, 2011
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    2012 seed availability update from AgriGold

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  • Sep. 13, 2011
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    “Silage yields are the most variable I have ever seen.”

    Silage harvest has started on the Kent Lock farm near Avon, IL. Yields are variable and 20% lower overall....More
  • Aug. 30, 2011
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    Seed pipeline: Future corn traits increasingly more complex

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  • Aug. 29, 2011
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    EPA approves DuPont’s Optimum AcreMax and Optimum AcreMax Xtra insect protection

    DuPont's Pioneer Business receives approvals for Optimum AcreMax and Optimum AcreMax Xtra insect protection....More
  • Aug. 26, 2011
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    Refuge-in-a-bag seed products ready for 2012 corn crop

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  • Aug. 23, 2011
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    "This corn crop is just not there."

    Team FIN member Kent Lock estimates his Avon, IL, corn crop won't yield as high as he had thought earlier in the summer....More
  • Aug. 16, 2011
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    Elevators balk at Agrisure Viptera corn as it awaits Chinese approval 1

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  • Aug. 12, 2011
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    Beck's Hybrids buys Pfister headquarters

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