NE124: Genetic Manipulation of Sweet Corn Quality and Stress Resistance
Statement of Issues and Justification
Sweet corn represents one of the important vegetable crops in the United States. Annual sweet corn production in this country occurs on 800,000 acres (appx.). Additionally, it is an important seed export for the U.S. inasmuch as the U.S. supplies most of the seed for production for the rest of the world. Unfortunately, much of the enormous investment in field corn research is not directly relevant to the contemporary production problems of sweet corn. Among these sweet-corn-unique problems are the need to: reinforce the presently weak germplasm-base representing sweet corn types; reconcile, inter alia, the vulnerability of sweet-type seed to soil borne and leaf pathogens; and resolve the genetics of sweet corn quality as seed and as a food.
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