Corn, born from the cereal grain called maize ... of the kernel, which is made of cellulose," Largeman-Roth adds. Corn's tough outer shell protects the interior from being eaten by pests, she ...

It also of course means farmers can spend less time applying insecticides but still be confident in the protection of their crop from key pests ... of maize to the European corn borer.

After earning her Ph.D., she became an instructor at Cornell and worked on the first of her major contributions to genetics by studying the chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn.