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A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...

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“The Corn Guy” Bob Nielsen, who is Professor Emeritus of Agronomy at Purdue University. Photo courtesy of Tom Campbell / Purdue Agricultural Communications. For the most part, June was very hot ...