Teosinte is a type of wild corn that is believed to be the original plant the ancients cultivated into the corn we have today. Its name comes from a Náhuatl word (teocintli) meaning "grass of the ...

To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the ...

SG Séguret expands on last week's column with a handful of additional wild edibles, including chickweed, dock and bittercress ...

Even before the constitutional reform, it was mostly illegal to plant modified corn in Mexico thanks to ... farmers first started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte.