Imagine it’s a fall day at your local pumpkin patch or corn maze. Have you ever thought about the tapestry of beautiful and varied colors of kernels on a cob of corn, and how those colors come to be?

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No one believed Barbara McClintock in 1951 when she first described DNA that "jumped" from site to site within maize chromosomes, altering the expression of genes near the sites of integration. In due ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Susan R. Wessler, a distinguished professor of genetics at the University of California, Riverside and a world-renowned expert in transposable elements, has been awarded the ...

Barbara McClintock was an American geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who dedicated her career to the study of hereditary traits in maize. Armed with rudimentary imaging tools and a ...