I'm excited to announce today that our first Citizen Science experiment, the "GMO Corn Experiment" is entering its final stage. It has been a long time coming, and I know each and every one of our participants have been waiting…
Tag: Maize
A new meta-analysis on the farm-level impacts of GMOs
Written by Jonas Kathage Despite the fact that the global area of GM crops has grown rapidly over the past decade and now encompasses more than 170 million hectares it is still questioned whether current applications of genetic engineering in…
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Sex and death in the cornfields, Part II- Why rootworms?
Written by Stephanie Gorski Hi, I started this series to explain a little more background behind the news and opinion articles you may have seen about Bt-resistant corn rootworms, with scary titles like Voracious worm evolves to eat biotech corn…
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Vote on the New Frank n. Foode™!
Friends, Readers, Kickstarter Backers, lend me your eyes and look at these ears! As you know, we raised enough money in our Kickstarter campaign to make 500 Frank N. Foode™ plushies, and 250 Hawai'ian Papaya plushies. I'm pleased to announce…
Why I’m Going to Hawaii to Defend the Maize Winter Nurseries
Written by Steve Savage Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries. When the economic viability of plantation agriculture declined in the 1990s, a…
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Maize Genetics?
Hi everyone, Frank N. Foode™ here. For the past few years, we at Biofortified have usually had an Editor present at the Maize Genetics Conference each year. (Even when it was in Italy!) And I've been there, too - meeting…
Community Contest #5 Winners!
Hello one and all, your favorite genetically engineered corn is here to spread a little cheer! At long last, I am pleased to announce the winners of our recent carving and costume contest. For this community contest, the stakes were…
Serendipity at Maize Genetics
While at the 2011 Maize Genetics Conference, the Biofortified Executive Editorial Team (Hey that spells BEET), aka Anastasia and I, talked about many of the awesome things that have made it onto the blog, and things that have not yet…
NCCC-167 2011 Edition
A couple years ago, Anastasia wrote about the NCCC-167 North Central Region Corn Breeding Research meeting. (NCCC stands for North Central Communications Committee.) This time around, it was my turn to attend, and it went pretty well if you ask…
POPcorn
The maize genetics community needs your help! POPcorn a special resource being developed with the goal of putting all maize-related information in one easy-to-use place. To help make POPcorn the best possible resource, they need feedback on ease of use.…