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...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

...most notably, the [[tomato]] became a favorite in European cuisine, with [[maize]] and the [[potato]] widely grown, while certain wheat strains quickly took ...ize is a staple traditional food (mealies) in much of Southern Africa, but maize has a center of origin near Southern Mexico, Photo Kwa Zulu Natal, 2005]]

...tury.<ref>[http://www.agron.missouri.edu/mnl/67/151kumar.html Antiquity of maize in India]. Rajendra Agricultural University</ref> ...ur2.pdf</ref> [[Alfred W. Crosby]] speculated that increased production of maize, manioc, and other

...ara McClintock]] Demonstrated the cytological proof for crossing-over in [[maize]].

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...as the main human food crop, and ahead of maize (corn), after allowing for maize's more extensive use in animal feeds. ...and the better economic profitability of other crops such as soybeans and maize, linked with investment in modern genetic technologies, has promoted shifts

...fferent species. By 1963 the parallels between McClintock's discoveries in maize and genetic instability in bacteria were clearly recognized <ref> Dawson, M

...ternal application of pesticides. An example of this would be [[Transgenic maize|Bt corn]]. Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ult

...as the main human food crop, and ahead of maize (corn), after allowing for maize's more extensive use in animal feeds. ...and the better economic profitability of other crops such as soybeans and maize, linked with investment in modern genetic technologies, has promoted shifts

...and rude one, but pleasantly set upon a slope of green turf, and girt with maize and the broad leaves of the tobacco. When I had had my supper, I called fro

...er compares corn stalk borer damage in un-protected maize with damage free maize (white mealie) protected with the Bt protein, Photo Kwa Zulu Natal, 2005]] ...s of ''[[Arabidopsis thaliana]]'' ( the model plant thale cress), tobacco, maize, and soybean.

...ns affecting quantitative traits in the selfed progeny of double monoploid maize stocks. ''Genetics'' 45(7): 855–866.</ref>.