While most Iowans look forward to sweet corn at the peak of summer, another cuisine is ripening at the same time: huitlacoche ...

Though favorites like tacos, burritos and nachos are popular in this area, there are a number of less common regional and ...

A fungal disease that has caused yield losses in corn has recently been found in Arkansas on decorative corn stalks, said ...

“This fungus actually likes those types of cool temperatures, and so it’s persisted there and has spread,” he said. However, infected corn from the Midwest slowly made its way to the ...

The same defenses that help some varieties of sweet corn resist fungal diseases can also stymie the potency of a beneficial fungus used to kill hungry caterpillar pests, studies by Agricultural ...

The fungi are usually present in the Northern Corn Belt region and cause diseases such as Gibberella ear rot. Darcy Telenko, associate professor of plant pathology and Extension specialist at Purdue ...

A handful of whitetails in the Illinois deer herd gather for an early November meal in a freshly-shelled field of corn. The ...

The Punjab Food Authority dumped 27,600kg of fungus-infected corn and more than 120kg of chemicals recovered from a ...

Dr. Darcy Telenko (at far right), associate professor of plant pathology and Extension specialist at Purdue University, with young students at a research plot for corn and soybeans. Photo courtesy of ...

Called the Mexican truffle and known as corn smut in the United States, this fungus infects corn during periods of heavy rainfall, turning it dark and ballooning the kernels into bulbous bites.

Quesadilla de huitlacoche at Tacos El Jalapeno truck 813 Paradise Road, Modesto Eating fungus may seem like a risky idea, but just like a mushroom, huitlacoche is a food with roots in Aztec culture.