world suitable to its cultivation. It is grown from 58° N latitude inCanadaandRussiato 40° S latitude inSouth America, with a corn crop maturing somewhere in the world nearly every month of the year. It is the most important crop in the United States and is astaplefood in many places...
Sweet corn and popcorn are popular vegetable garden crops with a rich history of cultivation in North America. They are closely related to each other, to flint corn and flower corn, to the starchy field corn produced in large fields across the country, and to maize produced by Native...
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U.S. farmers in the Midwest, the center of corn cultivation in North America, have watched helplessly as the worst drought in more than five decades has devastated their crop. Canadian farmers in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, long one of the greatest wheat-...
View in context They had, indeed, both of them as much ground laid out for corn as they wanted, and the reason was, because, according to my rule, nature dictated that it was to no purpose to sow more corn than they wanted; but the difference of the cultivation, of the planting, of...
Corn has dramatically changed from the ancestral wild grass that was its original form, teosinte (Zea species), a tropical American fodder plant in which the seeds are not united in a cob. It has been so adapted to cultivation that it cannot sustain itself without human cultivation. The ...
Cultivation of maize HOW TO GROW CORN Importance of corn in the world Cornfield near Palenque, Mexico. Corn or Maize is one of the most important cereals in the world, along with wheat and rice. It is native to Central America. The ancient Mayan and Az
Cultivation of the wild grasses that were developed into corn is thought to have begin in the Balsas river valley, in or around the south central Mexican state of Puebla, about 8700 years ago. There is significant controversy over exactly what wild grasses were developed into domesticated corn...
Corn stunt spiroplasma: isolation, cultivation, and proof of pathogenicity. 来自 NCBI 喜欢 0 阅读量: 32 作者:Chen, T. A.,Liao, C. H.摘要: A spiroplasma isolated from corn infected with corn stunt disease has been successfully cultivated in vitro. Acid formation was associated with its ...
Corn cultivation was the main reason for many communities towards civilization, farming, and living in one place. Archeological data have shown that corn was cultivated by 2000–2500 B.C.E [29]. Since then, corn has been used as source of food for both human being and animals. In 2014,...