Yellow maize ears harvested in Tlaltizapán, Mexico. A prevailing fear of many industry members in Mexico is that the ...

Consider this ancient ear of maize, which Walter Hough pulled out ... is strikingly unlike the large, sweet yellow-kernel cobs conjured up by the word “corn.”) Hough was working before ...

They take the form of a bunch of yellow ... the ears themselves, which would once shatter easily, grew much more sturdy. After about five thousand years of cultivation, teosinte (or maize) became ...

IT is well known among maize-growers that the number of rows of grain on an ear of maize varies from 8 to 24, or even more, according to the breed; also that in the same breed the number may vary ...