Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop ... types from three strains of maize and its ancestor teosinte. They found hundreds of thousands ...

Corn was domesticated from teosinte around 10,000 years ago and lost its hard case in the process. UW-Madison professor John Doebley discovered the direct ancestor of corn more than two decades ...

Indigenous peoples originally cultivated corn's wild ancestor, teosinte, over 9,000 years ago in what is now Mexico. That corn, called maize, was more similar to field corn, as sweet corn wasn’t ...