When the cheap price of corn alone could not open up new opportunities, government policies and quotas encouraged the development of corn-based ethanol production and markets, to the point where 40 percent of the corn crop is now devoted to this use.
American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist, and chemist, whose experiments, along with those of others, led to the development of hybrid corn (maize).
Perhaps no other development in the biological sciences has had greater impact on increasing the quantity of food supplies available to the world's population than has the development of hybrid corn (maize).
Much recent research has involved development of a corn with higher lysine content.
East's genetic investigations, with independent work by the geneticist and botanist George Harrison Shull, led to the development of hybrid corn.
"Some farmers haven't had enough rain to put in their second soybean crops and are seeing very poor development of their corn crops," Martin Lorenzo, a farmer in northern Buenos Aires province, told the Wall Street Journal.
In fact, it's an art installation celebrating the development of hybrid corn in the area.
Corn grain yields forecast for 2013 through to 2026 in keeping with historical trends, anticipated commercial launch dates, and farmer adoption of technologies, with the following assumptions: Based on trends observed from 1930 (development of hybrid corn and adoption replacing open-pollinated varieties) through 2012 [ 1], an average gain of 1.8 bu/A has been realized per year.
That would be a welcome development for corn farmers like Brooks Hurst of Tarkio, Mo., who are coping with runaway weeds that can no longer be controlled by Roundup, the herbicide of choice for the last decade.
Development and commercialization of corn and cotton varieties expressing insecticidal proteins (Cry toxins) from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt corn and Bt cotton) have offered an alternative to traditional synthetic insecticides for control of important agricultural pests.
A key discovery related to the isomerization of dextrose in the 1960's led to the development of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) by the corn refining industry [ 52].
