Tropical Sun White Hominy Corn 500g

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As maize was introduced to new cultures, new uses were developed and new varieties selected to better serve in those preparations. Maize was the staple food, or a major staple – along with squash, Andean region potato, quinoa, beans, and amaranth – of most pre-Columbian North American, Mesoamerican, South American, and Caribbean cultures. The Mesoamerican civilization, in particular, was deeply interrelated with maize. Its traditions and rituals involved all aspects of maize cultivation – from the planting to the food preparation. Maize formed the Mesoamerican people's identity. [ citation needed] a b c "corn, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Maize was introduced into the diet of non-indigenous Americans without the necessary cultural knowledge historically acquired in the Americas. In the late 19th century, pellagra reached epidemic proportions in parts of the southern US, as medical researchers debated two theories for its origin: the deficiency theory (which was eventually shown to be true) said that pellagra was due to a deficiency of some nutrient, and the germ theory said that pellagra was caused by a germ transmitted by stable flies. Another theory promoted by the eugenicist Charles Davenport held that people only contracted pellagra if they were susceptible to it due to certain "constitutional, inheritable" traits of the affected individual. [171]

A biomass gasification power plant in Strem near Güssing, Burgenland, Austria, began in 2005. There is potential that diesel can be created from the biogas by the Fischer Tropsch method. [156]Certain varieties of maize have been bred to produce many ears which are the source of the " baby corn" used as a vegetable in Asian cuisine. [96] It is unknown what precipitated its domestication, because the edible portion of the wild variety is too small, and hard to obtain, to be eaten directly, as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bivalve shell. [ citation needed]

Maize is a diploid with 20 chromosomes (n=10). The combined length of the chromosomes is 1500 cM. Some of the maize chromosomes have what are known as "chromosomal knobs": highly repetitive heterochromatic domains that stain darkly. Individual knobs are polymorphic among strains of both maize and teosinte. [ citation needed] A 2012 study found that 83% of allelic variation within the genome derives from its teosinte ancestors, primarily due to the freedom of Zeas to outcross. [81]

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Betty Fussell writes in an article on the history of the word "corn" in North America that "[t]o say the word "corn" is to plunge into the tragi-farcical mistranslations of language and history". [27] Similar to the British, the Spanish referred to maize as panizo, a generic term for cereal grains, as did Italians with the term polenta. The British later referred to maize as Turkey wheat, Turkey corn, or Indian corn with Fusell commenting that "they meant not a place but a condition, a savage rather than a civilized grain", especially with Turkish people later naming it kukuruz, or barbaric. [27] Please settle a dispute. Is sweet corn a vegetable or a grain? What is the difference? How about field corn? - eXtension". USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, New Technologies for Ag Extension project. Archived from the original on June 21, 2018 . Retrieved March 3, 2018. Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR is useful for single nucleotide polymorphism typing for molecular breeding in this crop. [91] Evolution Torban, Alli (December 4, 2021). "2. The pandemic wreaked havoc on the corn supply chain". Axios . Retrieved December 7, 2021.

National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Release 28". United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service. Maize is used as a fish bait, called "dough balls". It is particularly popular in Europe for coarse fishing. [ citation needed]a b Wu, Chi-Chih; Diggle, Pamela K.; Friedman, William E. (September 2011). "Female gametophyte development and double fertilization in Balsas teosinte, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis (Poaceae)". Sexual Plant Reproduction. 24 (3): 219–229. doi: 10.1007/s00497-011-0164-1. PMID 21380710. S2CID 8045294. The US and a handful of other English-speaking countries primarily use corn, though most countries use the term maize. [37] [8] [38] The word maize is considered interchangeable in place of corn in the West; during early British and American trade, all grains were considered corn. Maize retained the name corn in the West as the primary grain in these trade relationships. [34] In the United States, maize ears along with tobacco leaves are carved into the capitals of columns in the United States Capitol building. Maize itself is sometimes used for temporary architectural detailing when the intent is to celebrate the fall season, local agricultural productivity and culture. Bundles of dried maize stalks are often displayed along with pumpkins, gourds and straw in autumnal displays outside homes and businesses. A well-known example of architectural use is the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, which uses cobs and ears of colored maize to implement a mural design that is recycled annually. Another well-known example is the Field of Corn sculpture in Dublin, Ohio, where hundreds of concrete ears of corn stand in a grassy field. [176] Pechan, Tibor; Ye, Lijun; Chang, Yu-min; Mitra, Anurina; Lin, Lei; Davis, Frank M.; Williams, W. Paul; Luthe, Dawn S. (July 2000). "A Unique 33-kD Cysteine Proteinase Accumulates in Response to Larval Feeding in Maize Genotypes Resistant to Fall Armyworm and Other Lepidoptera". The Plant Cell. 12 (7): 1031–1040. doi: 10.1105/tpc.12.7.1031. PMC 149047. PMID 10899972. Winkel-Shirley, B (2001). "Flavonoid biosynthesis. A colorful model for genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and biotechnology". Plant Physiology. 126 (2): 485–93. doi: 10.1104/pp.126.2.485. PMC 1540115. PMID 11402179.

The Maize Association of Nigeria honors IITA for supporting the nation's agriculture". International Institute of Tropical Agriculture . Retrieved September 16, 2022. a b Pérez, Alberto E.; Erra, Georgina (2011). "Identificación de maiz de vasijas recuperadas de la Patagonia noroccidental argentina"[Identifying maize residues in pottery vessels in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina]. Magallania (in Spanish). 39 (2): 309–316. doi: 10.4067/S0718-22442011000200022. fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith)". entnemdept.ufl.edu . Retrieved November 14, 2017. During the first millennium AD, maize cultivation spread more widely in the areas north. In particular, the large-scale adoption of maize agriculture and consumption in eastern North America took place about A.D. 900. Native Americans cleared large forest and grassland areas for the new crop. [119] a b Ranum, Peter; Peña‐Rosas, Juan Pablo; Garcia‐Casal, Maria Nieves (April 2014). "Global maize production, utilization, and consumption". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1312 (1): 105–112. Bibcode: 2014NYASA1312..105R. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12396. PMID 24650320. S2CID 4640742.Maize contains lipid transfer protein, an indigestible protein that survives cooking. This protein has been linked to a rare and understudied allergy to maize in humans. [173] The allergic reaction can cause skin rash, swelling or itching of mucous membranes, diarrhea, vomiting, asthma and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. It is unclear how common this allergy is in the general population. [ citation needed] Birchler, James A.; Han, Fangpu (December 1, 2009). "Maize Centromeres: Structure, Function, Epigenetics". Annual Review of Genetics. 43 (1): 287–303. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134834. PMID 19689211. Starch from maize can also be made into plastics, fabrics, adhesives, and many other chemical products. [ citation needed] In prehistoric times Mesoamerican women used a metate to process maize into ground cornmeal, allowing the preparation of foods that were more calorie dense than popcorn. After ceramic vessels were invented the Olmec people began to cook maize together with beans, improving the nutritional value of the staple meal. Although maize naturally contains niacin, an important nutrient, it was not bioavailable without the process of nixtamalization. The Maya used nixtamal meal to make varieties of porridges and tamales. [144] The process was later used in the cuisine of the American South to prepare corn for grits and hominy. [ citation needed] Maize is a cultigen; human intervention is required for it to propagate. Whether or not the kernels fall off the cob on their own is a key piece of evidence used in archaeology to distinguish domesticated maize from its naturally-propagating teosinte ancestor. [4] Genetic evidence can also be used to determine when various lineages split. [12]