Reviewed by Debra LaGattuta The corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) is a tropical African evergreen tree. They grow fairly slowly, from thick canes or stems that produce long, narrow leaves like stalks of ...

Similar to other plants in the Dracaena family, such as the dragon plant, the corn plant can grow outdoors in USDA Hardiness ...

How severe that reduction is likely to be depends on not only the amount of leaf area removed, but also the corn's growth stage when hail occurs (Table 3). When leaf area is removed, the plant loses ...

Last year’s growing season brought to Kansas a new disease to corn. Corn stunt spiroplasma and its associated vector the corn ...

restricted root growth and a build-up of sugars due to sunny days and cold nights. With phosphorous deficiency, corn plants will be stunted with thin stalks. Therefore, it becomes important to ...

“Seeing how tall corn can grow comes down to internode length and quantity ... in part because the glass or plastic shifts the light spectrum reaching the plant’s leaves. He also learned that certain ...

Managing the shorter corn stalks and plant matter is another factor Blomgren ... For his part, Culwell shares that he intends to grow a test plot of short-stature corn again this season and ...

A new study finds that microplastic pollution reduces plant photosynthesis, threatening global food security and worsening ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean’s relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day ...