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South American maize varieties
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Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns
A DNA study challenges the idea people fully tamed maize in Mexico before the plant spread.
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, December 13, 2018
scientists with hybrid rice plants
News | Plants
Hybrid rice engineered with CRISPR can clone its seeds
By Susan Milius | 3:52pm, December 12, 2018
cactus spine poking a finger
News in Brief | Plants
Cactus spine shapes determine how they stab victims
By Jennifer Leman | 6:00am, November 27, 2018
researcher holding sockeye salmon
The Science Life | Plants
How researchers flinging salmon inadvertently spurred tree growth
By Laurel Hamers | 1:54pm, October 30, 2018
cacao beans
News | Plants
Ancient South Americans tasted chocolate 1,500 years before anyone else
By Bruce Bower | 12:00pm, October 29, 2018
Radula perrottetii
News | Plants
Liverwort plants contain a painkiller similar to the one in marijuana
By Jennifer Leman | 5:34pm, October 24, 2018
thale cress
News | Plants
Plants engineered to always be on alert don’t grow well
By Jennifer Leman | 4:09pm, October 22, 2018
dandelion floof
Science Visualized | Plants
Dandelion seeds create a bizarre whirlpool in the air to fly
By Helen Thompson | 1:00pm, October 17, 2018
Silene stenophylla
50 Years Ago | Plants
50 years ago, a 550-year-old seed sprouted
By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, October 10, 2018
red-bellied lemur
News | Plants
Lemur study suggests why some fruits smell so fruity
By Susan Milius | 2:12pm, October 03, 2018
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