Herbarium of the Bizarre

Maize

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Happy Native American Heritage Day in the United States! We’re talking about a plant that featured heavily in traditional Native American agriculture which has now become a huge global crop. In the U.S., it’s called corn, but the international name is maize.


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Information provided by:

  1. https://www.britannica.com/plant/corn-plant
  2. https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/%E2%80%98all-corn-is-the-same%E2%80%99-and-other-foolishness-about-america%E2%80%99s-king-crops
  3. “A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping” by Yoshihiro Matsuoka, et al. https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.052125199
  4. https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/History-of-Popcorn
  5. https://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN2632641520080226/
  6. https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize
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    Herbarium of the BizarreBy Meredith Hemphill