Sweet Genes in Corn (Student Edition)

by: Elizabeth Rice, Marianne Krasny, and Margaret E. Smith

One of the joys of summer is sweet, fresh, crisp corn on the cob. Most corn is starchy and usually does not taste sweet. Why isn't corn on the cob starchy? What makes sweet corn sweet? Find the answers in this chapter by designing an experiment to test the effects of the sugary gene su1 and the super-sweet gene sh2.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB199XT_S7

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Ruth Hutson (Westmoreland, KS)
Ruth Hutson (Westmoreland, KS)

What makes sweet corn sweet?

This lesson would be of particular interest to my students since we live in the Midwest. The brief background explanation gives a nice overview of the history of sweet corn genetics. It sho... See More

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