Corn (maize)
Also known as Maize, Corn, Maize (Corn), Maize/Corn
Maize, also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. The leafy stalk of the plant gives rise to male inflorescences or tassels which produce pollen, and female inflorescences called ears. The ears yield grain, known as kernels or seeds. In modern commercial varieties, these are usually yellow or white; other varieties can be of many colors. Maize was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture. That is, those three vegetables were the main staple crops of the time.
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Global genetic dissection of maize-teosinte divergence reveals EL3-...
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Predicting complex phenotypes using multi-omics data in maize.
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of ZmHMA3 reveals its essential role ...
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Scientists review ways to strip toxic mold chemical from grain
The wheat crackers or cornmeal in your pantry can pick up this estrogen-mimicking mold toxin duri...
Two maize hybrids deliver steady yields across Bangladesh's varied farms
If you've ever watched the same crop thrive in one garden bed and flop in another, this study sho...
New corn flour standard helps labs catch toxic mold contamination
If you grow or store your own corn, the mold that produces aflatoxins thrives in warm, damp condi...
Charred bamboo traps toxic metals in waste-based concrete better
If you've ever worried about contaminated soil near old industrial sites or mines, this points to...
Mung bean starch makes the sturdiest Red Bull jelly candy
The starch in your kitchen pantry, whether scraped from a potato or milled from corn or mung bean...
Gut microbes help radiation-weakened moths regain strength and mating drive
The corn in your garden or the field down the road is targeted by this exact pest, and this disco...
New open map dataset predicts crop yields across South Asia
If you've ever wondered how researchers forecast whether a drought will devastate rice paddies in...
New lab recipe shows where key proteins act as corn cells shuffle genes
Every sweet corn, popcorn, or heirloom flint kernel variety you plant traces back to gene shuffli...
Hospital feeding tubes may need a whole-food makeover
The same corn and soybean oil that dominate industrial ICU nutrition are grown in the vast monocu...
