Its name comes from a Náhuatl word (teocintli) meaning "grass of the gods." Modern corn comes from hybrid corn humans bred around 5,000 years ago in Mexico. Scientifically, the corn we eat today ...

These more unique corn varieties aren't as common because there isn't as much of a market for them but also because they are typically more difficult to grow. Modern corn is resistant to disease ...

As a result of the USMCA panel ruling, Mexico repealed its import restrictions on GM corn for human, livestock and industrial uses. Mexico, the birthplace of modern corn, had already prohibited ...

Some were round — not the oval you see today. Selective breeding has made the spines disappear from modern eggplants. Wild corn was dry as a raw potato. Modern corn was first domesticated 8,000 ...

Corn (or maize) was first cultivated by humans about 10,000 years ago in Mexico from a wild grass called teosinte (which doesn’t look much like modern corn at all). And it seems that people ...

These tortillas likely resembled the chorreada, a thicker corn pancake wrapped around available ingredients. In modern Costa Rican cuisine, the humble chorreada has been transformed. Traditionally ...

The results of this research could allow farmers to grow more crops at a cheaper rate. In modern farming, the prevention of nitrogen loss in corn crops has been achieved by using genetically modified ...

You could tell a story of American culture through corn, tracing it through the first ... high as an elephant’s eye” that heralded the modern musical and were plowed over to build a field ...