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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Mitochondrial-Nuclear Interactions, Co-Transcription, and Adaptive ...
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Predicting complex phenotypes using multi-omics data in maize.
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Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience a...
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