Jorge Monroy is starring with a new exhibition at Guadalajara’s twenty-seventh Festival Cultural de Mayo in Jalisco throughout this month.

For spring she named her collection Teocintle —the name given for the ancestor of corn—and acknowledged the importance of corn and insects in the gastronomy of Mexican culture.

Beloved old techniques for food preservation bubble up again and ride a wave of new popularity in southern Mexico’s culinary capital.

Teocintle (aka teosinte), an ancient relative of corn, had kernels covered in a hard fruitcase that one could break a tooth on. Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra.

The process of evolution under domestication has been studied using phylogenetics, population genetics–genomics, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, gene expression assays, and archaeology. Here, ...

Teocintle is an ancestor of corn, which was first developed thousands of years ago in Mexico or Central America. It grows in an educational plot at Legacy Seeds. It shows how corn has changed through ...

Extreme temperatures in the Arctic this winter, combined with heavy rain, led to melting permafrost that gushed into the tunnel leading into the vault.

History 7000 B.C. Native people made tamales from wild “teocintle,” an ancestor of modern corn. Corn was ground into a flour and cooked to give it more nutritional value. 1000 A.D. Mayans ...

We've long imagined scenarios in which, because of disaster, climate change, or nuclear war, life as we know it comes to an end, with parts of the Earth rendered inhospitable with widespread ...

Technicians at CIMMYT sort samples of wild maize seeds, known as Teocintle, at the center in Texcoco, on the outskirts of Mexico City. AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo Source: The Crop Trust ...