Sweet Corn

Sweet corn hybrids possess one or more genes that slow the conversion rate of sugars to starch in the kernels.

Unhusked mature ear on stalk shows straight rows of wrinkled, light yellow to white colored kernels.
Mature ear.
Close-up of mature ear with several smooth, brighter yellow kernels sporatically between the dull yellow, wrinkled kernels.
Kernels that did not wrinkle resulted from cross pollination. Starch amount and kernel taste influenced by parent that produces pollen.
Side view of several dull yellow kernels that are shriveled.
Mature kernels shrink and wrinkle.