See the official NSF list of awards to review project abstracts and recipients. MaizeDB is THE database to consult for scientific information relating to corn. Officially, it is the database of the National Corn Genome Initiative . However, the keepers of MaizeDB are obsessive catalogers and it will be a rare piece of maize-related information that you won't be able to find here. Comprehensive searches can be performed to locate information about genes, traits, probes, associated literature and researchers.
Images accompany many of their entries.
It is supported by private agri-businesses, public sector organizations, the National Corn Growers Association , the Critical Technologies Partnership, and trade associations, and calls for the provision of Federal funding to map the corn genome. Such a program is viewed as being critical to the long-term viability and sustainability of U.S. agriculture, with additional significant impact in the areas of health and the environment. The Germplasm Enhancement of Maize project is a cooperative effort of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, land-grant universities, and industry. The Maize Sequence Analysis Project , from the Univ. of Arizona and the Univ. The USDA's North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station .