By reconstructing the genomes of archaeological maize cobs and kernels, the study reveals that 1,000-year-old maize from rockshelters in the Ozark region of Arkansas, US, shares a close genetic ...

Maize kernels with different colors by Carl Davies, CSIRO CC BY 3.0 Unlike the uniformly yellow kernels found on maize most are familiar with, for some maize the kernels come in different colors ...

that maize had genes encoding variegated, or multicolored, kernels; these kernels were described as colorless (although they were actually white or yellow), except for spots or streaks of purple ...

Unlike other maize shellers, Ngige’s invention does not split the maize kernels, and the cob comes out whole. In 2013, the hand maize sheller was calibrated by the Ministry of Agriculture ...

Maize and maize byproducts are the raw materials mostly used in poultry and swine diets. Nutritionists prefer to incorporate ...

Corn’s ancestors Luckily, corn – also called maize in countries such as South Africa – has some hard parts, such as the kernel shell. They’re the bits at the bottom of the popcorn bowl ...

For the next 50 years, she lived a simple lifestyle with few possessions, tending her maize, observing kernel color, and looking at cells through the microscope. Transposition. Through careful ...

the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill. It needed to be cooked in a mixture of water and white lime. This elaborate process of boiling the raw kernel in lime ...