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The most popular grains used for porridge are [[oats]], [[maize]] and [[semolina]], and in some countries, the word ''porridge'' has become

...important. Easter Islanders continue to farm small plots today, although maize is now the major crop. Since the introduction of sheep ranching, sheep and

...ico the word refers to the round, thin, unleavened flatbread made of corn (maize) that has been eaten in that country for centuries.

...38 Duvick DN. (2001) Biotechnology in the 1930s: the development of hybrid maize. Nat Rev Genet. 2001 Jan;2(1):69-74.]

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...red lines that reveal a heterotic yield advantage when they are crossed. [[Maize]] was the first species where heterosis was widely used to produce [[hybrid ...abling the production of hybrids and removing the need for [[detasseling]] maize plants.

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...ormation. She produced a [[genetic map]] for maize, linking regions of the maize chromosomes with physical traits, and she demonstrated the role of the [[te ...d later made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and [[ethnobotany]] of maize [[race (biology)|race]]s from South America. McClintock's research became g

...ormation. She produced a [[genetic map]] for maize, linking regions of the maize chromosomes with physical traits, and she demonstrated the role of the [[te ...d later made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and [[ethnobotany]] of maize [[race (biology)|race]]s from South America. McClintock's research became g

...of a Highly Conserved Sequence Related to Mutator Transposable Elements in Maize. Molecular Biology and Evolution 5:519–529. PMID 2848175</ref>. Related ' ...trons,<ref>Lal SK, Giroux MJ, Brendel V, Vallejos CE, Hannah LC. 2003. The maize genome contains a Helitron insertion. Plant Cell 15:381–391. PMID 1256657

...f Washington Yearbook 45, (1946): 176-186. McClintock, B. "Mutable Loci in Maize." Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook 47, (1948): 155-169.]</ref>, ...viruses. Retrotransposons are common in eukaryotic organism s(for instance maize, humans), but are rarely found in bacteria. They are present in fungi.

...discovered substantial crop yield improvements in interspecies hybrids of maize (now called 'hybrid vigor' or [[heterosis]]) with dramatic consequences fo ...omosome at some stage, either as ancient duplications (as in the case of [[maize]]), or by hybridization between different species (as in [[allopolyploid|al

...> <ref>SanMiguel P, Bennetzen JL (1998) Evidence that a recent increase in maize genome size was caused by the massive amplification of intergene retrotrans

...shuffling by helitron-like transposons generate intra species diversity in maize.]</ref>. ...om one place to another within the genome. The variegated kernels of her [[maize]] plants, she determined, resulted from mobile elements that had inserted t

...e they were easily transformable with the then current technologies, while maize was a well established genetic model for plant biology. The breakthrough ye

...ortant foods. It ranks as the fourth-most-important food crop, after corn (maize), wheat and rice. It provides more calories and more nutrients, more quickl ...their own food on the trip. Historians speculate that leftover tubers (and maize) was carried ashore and planted. Basque fishermen from Spain used potatoe

[[Image:Maize ear.jpg|thumb|right|''[[maize|Zea mays]]'']] :*[[Maize]] (''Zea mays'' L.) is a cereal grain. It is a diploid monocot with 10 larg

...elied on a form of [[swidden agriculture]] in which they cultivated [[corn|maize]] (corn), [[common bean|beans]], and [[squash (food)|squash]] in fields cal ...led [[milpa agriculture]]. A milpa is a small plot of land used to grow [[maize]] (corn), [[beans]], and [[squash (food)|squash]]. This form of agricultur

...1810.<ref>Engelhardt 1921, p. 22</ref> To sustain the installation barley, maize, and wheat, were grown and cattle were grazed at nearby ''Las Pulgas'' ("th

...d independently in China, with rice rather than wheat as the primary crop. Maize was first domesticated from [[teosinte]] in the Americas around 3000-2700 B ...rhaps most notably, the tomato became a favorite in European cuisine, with maize also widely grown, while certain wheat strains quickly took to western hemi