Reseña del libro "Genetic Research of Maize x Teosinte Hybrid and Advanced Progeny (en Inglés)"
Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maz after Taino: mahis[2]), often known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a cereal grain that was initially domesticated by indigenouspeoples in southern Mexico approximately 10,000 years ago. Maize isa member of the Zea mays subsp. mays species.[3][4] The plant's leafystalk gives rise to in"orescences, sometimes known as 5tassels,5 whichproduce pollen and separate ovuliferous in"orescences called ears.These in"orescences, when fertilized, yield kernels or seeds, which areconsidered botanical fruits.[6][I] Fn formal, scientiHc, and internationalusage, the term maize is favored as the common name sinceit refers solely to this one grain, whereas the term corn refers to anyprimary cereal crop that is farmed in a country. This preference forthe term maize as the common name can be explained as follows.Wor instance, the term 5corn5 is typically used to refer to 5maize5 inboth North America and Australia. Gowever, in England and Cales, RENETFO 2 XESEAXOG YW MAFZE B TEYSFNTE GDVXF... AN... A...jANOE...(5corn5 can also mean 5wheat5 or 5barley,5 and in Scotland and Freland, 5corn5 refers to 5oats.5As a result of its widespread adoption as aprimary source of nutrition, maize now accounts for a greater proportionof global grain production than either wheat or rice. Maize isutilized not 7ust for human consumption 8often in the form of masa), but also for the production of corn ethanol, animal feed, and othermaize-based goods such as corn starch and corn syrup.[q] ...ent corn, "int corn, pod corn, popcorn, "our corn, and sweet corn are the sixprimary varieties of maize. Sweet corn is also known as popcorn.[9]The kernels of sugar-rich varieties of corn, known as sweet corn, aretypically grown for human consumption, whereas Held corn varietiesare typically used for animal feed, various corn-based human fooduses 8such as grinding it into cornmeal or masa, pressing it into cornoil, fermenting and distilling it into alcoholic beverages like bourbonwhiskey), and as feedstocks for the chemical industry. Sweet cornvarieties are typically grown for human consumption as kernels. Fnaddition, ethanol and various other types of biofuels can be madefrom maize.Maize is the most fre;uently farmed grain in the world, and each year, more maize is produced than any other type of graincombined.[U] The total amount of product produced all across theworld in 2021 was 1.2 billion tonnes 81.2 10U long tonsP 1.3 10Ushort tons). Ft is estimated that in the year 2021, the Lnited Statesof America alone will produce 394 million tonnes 83q9,000,000 longtonsP 423,000,000 short tons) of maize. Maize is the grain crop that/XE-OYáLMVFAN ...EjEáY/MENT 3is grown more than any other in the Americas.[source: missing citation]Fn 200U, genetically modiHed maize accounted for 96 percentof all of the corn that was planted in the Lnited States.[10] There isa high degree of maize cultivation in the Lnited States, which helpsto account for the country's position
