Science Specials

Maize | Geneticist's Growing Season

Special | 6m 56s | Video has closed captioning.

What does a maize geneticist do? Explore the growing season of maize, and how scientists study the plant’s genetic diversity and connect it to the phenotypes they observe.

Aired: 08/05/20

Rating: NR

Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning

Science Specials is a local public television program presented by WSKG.

This project is in collaboration with the Paleontological Research Institution and funded by the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program, Award 1238014: “The Biology of Rare Alleles in Maize and Its Wild Relatives.”