11.   Looking around, I was amazed to see our corn plant in flower.

12.   Reengineered Bt genes, when inserted into corn plants, produce a protein highly toxic to insects that can harm crops.

13.   Slow maturation of corn plants could leave crops vulnerable to the annual fall frost, which ends the growing season.

14.   Slow maturation of corn plants could leave crops vulnerable to a fall frost, which ends the growing season and reduces output.

15.   Soybean flowers are now setting into pods, where beans eventually grow, and ears on corn plants are filling with kernels.

16.   Temperatures are expected to help dry corn plants.

17.   The conditions are favorable for the pollination of corn plants, traders said.

18.   The corn plant likes high humidity.

19.   The generous rain over the past several weeks that formerly hampered planting now benefits early growth of the corn plant.

20.   The most popular of these is a corn plant that contains a toxin in its tissues that kills corn borer pests.