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Description: This research project was completed as a part of the Borlaug-Ruan Internship program sponsored by the World Food Prize Foundation. The host institution for this project was China Agricultural University State Key Laboratory for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. Abstract: Waterlogging is a major and often understudied issue affecting maize farmers across the world, especially in developing countries. This project takes two different lines of Zea mays which have been genetically modified to over express two segments of the genome. They were grown under normal and waterlogged conditions and compared by the physical development to a standard variety of corn. The lines of maize were then compared in both terms of root activity and the level of expression in the genome. The first set of maize showed no signs of waterlogging resistance and maize from the second set showed some signs of resistance to waterlogging.