Maize - Wikipedia
WEBMaize / m eɪ z / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It 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.
Maize - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBMaize or Indian corn (called corn in some countries) is Zea mays, a member of the grass family Poaceae. It is a cereal grain which was first grown by people in ancient Central America. Approximately 1 billion tonnes are harvested every year. However, little of this maize is eaten directly by humans.
Zea (plant) - Wikipedia
WEBZea is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. The best-known species is Z. mays (variously called maize, corn, or Indian corn), one of the most important crops for human societies throughout much of the world. The four wild species are commonly known as teosintes and are native to Mesoamerica .
Maize | Kew
WEBMaize, or corn, is the most grown cereal grain in the whole world by weight. In 2021, the world produced over 1.2 billion tonnes of maize for use in everything from food, drink, fuel, and even fish bait. But it’s been a long journey to get here. Indigenous American peoples began domesticating maize from the grass teosinte nearly 10,000 years ago.
A Brief History of Maize - rilab.ucdavis.edu
WEBA Brief History of Maize. Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays), known in the United States as corn, is a grass, along with other important crops such as rice, wheat, and barley. Because of its distinctive morphology, the origins of maize and its closest wild relatives were the subject of more than a century of debate, but thanks to the confluence of ...
Maize - New World Encyclopedia
WEBMaize, also known as corn and Indian corn, is any of the diverse cultured forms of the annual cereal grass (family Poaceae) of the species Zea mays L, or the seed of this plant, which grows as large grains set in rows on an “ear” or “cob.”
Maize: Origins and Development | SpringerLink
WEBOct 26, 2020 · Maize was first introduced to Europe in the late fifteenth century, was cultivated for food in Mediterranean regions in the centuries that followed introduction, and has subsequently been dispersed to regions around the globe.
Scientists thought they understood maize’s origins. They were
WEBNov 30, 2023 · Maize is one of the world’s most important crops, but its origins have long bedeviled scientists. It took more than a century for scientists to settle on the idea that it was domesticated about 9000 years ago in the lowlands of Mexico from a wild grass: a subspecies of teosinte called parviglumis .
The Natural History of Maize | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMaize, also referred to as corn or Indian corn in the United States and Great Britain, respectively, is a cereal plant of the Gramineae family of grasses that today constitutes the most widely distributed food plant in the world.
Ancient corn cob shows how maize conquered the world - BBC
WEBNov 17, 2016 · Maize was first domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mexico between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago. By Helen Briggs. BBC News. Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how...
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