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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
 | | It was integral to the beliefs of the Mesoamericans that not only had the creation been improved at each step, but also its beings, plants and foods, so that present day humans, "Maize People," were the best possible creature, and maize the best possible food. | | | Cultivation of maize and the elaboration of its food products are inextricably bound with the rise of pre-Colombian Mesoamerican civilizations. | | | Lacking a reliable historical record, the issue of maize origins has long been a controversial ethnobotanical problem. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Maize Kansas Weather Local Radar Forecast from Find Local Weather - Get Maize Radar Weather |
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| | AGBIOS :: DATABASE :: |
| | The toxicity and allergenicity potential of the Cry1Ab protein in Event 176 maize was demonstrated by examining its physiochemical characteristics and amino acid sequence homology with known protein allergens. | | | The wholesomeness of maize Event 176, as compared to conventional maize, was confirmed in feeding studies in which mice and bobwhite quail were fed Cry1Ab protein prepared from maize leaves. | | | Maize Event 176 was found to be nutritionally equivalent to conventional maize and minor differences detected were all within the normal established ranges for maize. |
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http://www.agbios.com/dbase.php?action=ShowProd&data=176
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | This explains why maize grain occurs in various colors ranging from black (scorched from having been on the exterior of the stash) through red to blue, yellow, and finally pure white (maize that was at the center of the stash and therefore protected from the bolts of thunder). | | | Maize is a tall, determinate annual plant producing large, narrow, opposing leaves (about a tenth as wide as they are long), borne alternately along the length of a solid stem. | | | However, by 2,700 B. maize had been introduced from Michoacan to Puebla’s Tehuacan valley, the residents of the Coxcatlan caves in the southern fringes of the valley were utilizing a small-eared pop maize (6-9 kernels per cob), and had innovated the process for grinding maize grain with stone mortars and baking flat bread. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Re: Q: perennial maize available anywhere? |
| | There are two types of perennial Zea, both of which are like teosinte (Zea mays ssp mexicana) in female flower morphology: 1) Zea perennis [a tetraploid] 2) Zea diploperennis [a diploid that can be crossed with Zea mays ssp mays to produce fertile progeny and backcrossed and selected to give perennial maize]. | | | However, for obvious reasons, seed companies have not put much effort into developing useful maize cultivars with the 'perennial' trait. | | | Because of the short growing season in Northern Europe, I would doubt that perennial maize would offer any major advantage over annual maize for producing seed. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/InterGarden/agriculture/seed-plant-catalogs/1/msg00048.html
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| | CIMMYT-Transgenic Maize: Director General Iwanaga... |
| | For Mexico the course of action with regard to transgenic maize will be particularly sensitive because of the desire to conserve maize landraces and because of the perception by some that landraces cannot be traditional and transgenic at the same time. | | | Transgenic wheat and maize offer tremendous opportunities in this regard, but it is clear that genetically modified varietiesor any given modern variety, for that matterwill not be appropriate for every farm setting in every part of the world. | | | As an international maize research institution charged with holding maize genetic resources in trust for humanity, CIMMYT wishes to recapitulate its position on the many questions surrounding the issue of transgenes in maize landraces. |
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http://www.cimmyt.org/whatiscimmyt/Transgenic/Iwanaga_051202.htm
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| | ICTSD - The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development |
| | In 2001 and 2002, Mexican government officials found that maize in the area -- considered to be a centre of origin of maize globally -- was contaminated by transgenic ("genetically modified") traits (see BRIDGES Trade BioRes, 19 March 2004). | | | The government said that in decisions on importing transgenic maize, the sovereign right of a country to set its own level of protection -- using its own scientific assessment and regulatory system -- should be respected. | | | The report examines likely effects of current and future uses of transgenic maize, as compared to non-transgenic maize production, on the genetic diversity of landraces and wild relatives of maize, agricultural and natural biodiversity, human health, and social values and cultural identity. |
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http://www.ictsd.org/biores/04-11-19/story3.htm
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| | Educational Review March 2004 |
| | Because maize is eaten in various ways (as a vegetable, or as derivatives of maize in the form of corn oil, corn syrup, cornstarch, corn flour, and cornmeal) and the specific allergen profile of various maize derivatives is not known, it may be necessary to challenge each derivative separately. | | | The mother was asked to allow only rice and rice products, maize and maize products, potato (as the IgE levels of all of these were 0 or low), banana, pear and chicken (as these are low-allergenic foods) in her son's diet. | | | and the maize inhibitor of trypsin cross-reacts with grass, wheat, barley, and rice trypsin inhibitors. |
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http://www.allergyadvisor.com/educational/March04.htm
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| | Mythology's Mything Links: Lore & History of Maize in Latin America |
| | The Mother of Maize asked him to choose one of her daughters and he took the Girl of Blue Maize, the most beauty and sacred of them all... | | | The head of this mountain deity, which combines the attributes of both mother and father, is depicted on the lower central part of the roof crest, with a cleft in its forehead from which maize sprouts. | | | As the young man was hungry The Mother of Maize gave him a kettle filled with tortillas and a pot filled with atole; he didn't belive that those could satiate his hunger, but the tortillas and atole were renewed magicaly, in a way that he couldn't finish them. |
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http://www.mythinglinks.org/ip~maize.html
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| | Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard, ch 11 |
| | The change in the maize plants, which undergo the same metamorphoses as the twins, illustrates the conception of the nahual, while the offering of incense marks new ceremonial patterns whose object is to ward off evil entities and protect the twins. | | | In the same way, the maize kernels intended for the sowing are sterilized by mixing them with ashes, that magical substance into which Hunahpú and Ixbalamqué have to transmute themselves, and which has the virtue of destroying malign spirits. | | | Of all the names by which the Maize god is known, the name Ce Acatl of Mexican theogony is the one that best expresses this scene of the divinization of maize by Ixmucané, since Ce Acatl (one maize stalk) is the day of the Maize deity's birth. |
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/popolvuh/pv-11.htm
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| | "The Watershed: Olmec Antecedents" by John Major Jenkins, 1997 |
| | As the ancient myth goes, maize and the Maize Deity were born from a cleft or cave in the Cosmic Mountain. | | | The cleft-heads are birth places for maize, and symbolize the craters on volcanoes or the caves in mountains where maize was thought to have been born. | | | Thus, the dawning of Venus is likened to the sprouting of maize. |
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http://edj.net/mc2012/waters.htm
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| | The role of women in the conservation of the genetic resources of maize |
| | Among the outstanding original crops of this region is maize, given the genetic diversity present in the area as well as the presence of wild species and subspecies related to maize, an outstanding on of which is teosinte. | | | In Guatemala, 13 landraces and 12 local cultivars of maize have been identified, of which seven landraces and four sub races are present in the Department of Huehuetenango, which indicates the importance of the area for the genetic diversity of maize. | | | This is how maize entered (in the formation of man) through the work of the Progenitors. |
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http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y3841E/y3841e04.htm
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | This explains why maize grain occurs in various colors ranging from black (scorched from having been on the exterior of the stash) through red to blue, yellow, and finally pure white (maize that was at the center of the stash and therefore protected from the bolts of thunder). | | | Maize is a tall, determinate annual plant producing large, narrow, opposing leaves (about a tenth as wide as they are long), borne alternately along the length of a solid stem. | | | However, by 2,700 B. maize had been introduced from Michoacan to Puebla’s Tehuacan valley, the residents of the Coxcatlan caves in the southern fringes of the valley were utilizing a small-eared pop maize (6-9 kernels per cob), and had innovated the process for grinding maize grain with stone mortars and baking flat bread. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Maize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The proposed role of the related genus Tripsacum in the origins of maize has been widely refuted by modern genetic analysis. | | | In Australia, the term corn is often restricted to sweetcorn, with maize or field corn used for other varieties of Zea mays ssp. | | | As a food, maize ( Zea mays ssp. |
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| | Quantitative Trait Loci for Tassel Traits in Maize -- Berke and Rocheford 39 (5): 1439 -- Crop Science |
| | Fischer K.S., Edmeades G.O., Johnson E.C. Recurrent selection for reduced tassel branch number and reduced leaf area density above the ear in tropical maize populations. | | | Goldman I.L., Rocheford T.R., Dudley J.W. Quantitative trait loci influencing protein and starch concentration in the Illinois Long Term Selection maize strains. | | | Geraldi I.O., Miranda Filho J.B., Vencovsky R. Estimates of genetic parameters for tassel characters in maize ( Zea mays L.) and breeding perspectives. |
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| | Doebley Lab |
| | Zea includes maize or Indian corn as well as the teosintes, the closest wild relatives of maize. | | | The species are all annual, have more slender tassel branches (although secondarily thickened in cultivated maize), and have longer pedicels in the male spikelets as compared to plants of section Luxuriantes. | | | This closer resemblance includes features such as the perennial habit (presence of underground rhizomes), thicker inflorescence branches, shorter pedicels in the male spikelets, and fruitcases that are trapezoidal in outline. |
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http://www.wisc.edu/teosinte/taxonomy.htm
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | The Mexican anthropologist and maize historian Arturo Warman has referred to maize as a thoroughly cultural artifact, in that it is truly a human invention, a species that does not exist naturally in the wild and can only survive if sown and protected by humans. | | | Also in the balance is the possibility that current economic and agricultural policies that reduce traditional maize production in Mexico may decimate the genetic treasury that is the Mexican maize germplasm pool, an important and recurrent contributor to the key hybrid germplasm of the U. maize belt. | | | Cultivation of maize and the elaboration of its food products are inextricably bound with the rise of pre-Colombian Mesoamerican civilizations. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | However, in Mexico the culture of maize remains predominantly a subsistence enterprise. | | | Likewise, the domestication and improvement of maize is strongly correlated with the development of cultural complexity and rise of the high civilizations of prehispanic Mesoamerica. | | | One interpretation of this is that it is cultural memory of a time when the foliage or grain produced by the ancestor of maize was edible only by animals and not humans. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Maize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The proposed role of the related genus Tripsacum in the origins of maize has been widely refuted by modern genetic analysis. | | | In Australia, the term corn is often restricted to sweetcorn, with maize or field corn used for other varieties of Zea mays ssp. | | | As a food, maize ( Zea mays ssp. |
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| | Doebley Lab |
| | Zea includes maize or Indian corn as well as the teosintes, the closest wild relatives of maize. | | | The species are all annual, have more slender tassel branches (although secondarily thickened in cultivated maize), and have longer pedicels in the male spikelets as compared to plants of section Luxuriantes. | | | The genus Zea is a member of the grass family (Poaceae) and composed of four species native to Mexico and Central America. |
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http://www.wisc.edu/teosinte/taxonomy.htm
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| | CIMMYT Researchers Awarded World Food Prize in Quality Protein |
| | Maize is the world’s most widely grown cereal crop and an essential food source for millions of the world’s poor. | | | In 20 developing countries, primarily in Latin America and Africa, maize gruel is the main food mothers use to wean their babies, and maize is the single largest source of calories. | | | In recognition of this work, the World Food Prize Foundation today tapped two scientists from the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), where the research has been ongoing for over three decades, as the 2000 recipients of the World Food Prize. |
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http://www.cimmyt.cgiar.org/research/maize/world_food_prize_qpm/qpm_wfp.htm
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| | 2002-05_5.html |
| | As part of their continuing effort to characterize maize gene bank accessions and breeding materials, scientists from CIMMYT's Applied Biotechnology Center and Maize Program recently conducted another set of screens aimed at detecting the presence of transgenes in an additional 28 Mexican landraces. | | | In a statement considering some of the issues raised by suggestions of maize landrace contamination, CIMMYT says a "widely held misconception about maize landraces is that what we find in remote areas of Mexico today is essentially the same as the maize found in the same location 100 years ago. | | | DNA was amplified using a primer corresponding to the CaMV 35S promoter, a fragment of DNA found in most commercial transgenic maize and not known to exist naturally in the maize genome (sequence available upon request). |
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http://binas.unido.org/binas/news/2002-05_5.html
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| | gmo004.htm |
| | Novartis' transgenic maize has been manipulated to be tolerant to the herbicide Basta, and a synthetic version of a gene from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringienis has been inserted enabling the maize to produce its own insecticide against the European corn borer. | | | Although Novartis's transgenic maize has been formally authorised by both US and EU authorities, there is deep distrust and scepticism by the public and governments in Europe that the Novartis' transgenic maize can ever be safe. | | | Novartis's assessment on the effects of the Bt toxin in its transgenic maize is based on the false assumption that the Bt toxin in the maize has the same properties as the Bt toxin in its natural form in the bacteria. |
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http://archive.greenpeace.org/geneng/reports/gmo/gmo004.htm
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| | GREENPEACE RETURNS TRANSGENIC MAIZE TO NOVARTIS |
| | Basel, Switzerland -- Greenpeace today returned about 4.5 tonnes of transgenic maize to Novartis that was taken last Friday by activists from fields in Germany and France to highlight the risks of transgenic crops. | | | "Novartis maize has become a symbol for reckless genetic pollution of the environment and disregard for precaution in the use of antibiotic resistance", said Isabelle Meister while dumping the transgenic maize in front of Novartis' incineration facility. | | | As the concern of the health and environmental risks of Novartis maize grows among European governments, Greenpeace is demanding that Novartis immediately recalls its Bt-maize. |
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http://archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/geneng/1998sep14.html
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| | Maize and its relatives |
| | Maize is also a popular treat for summer picnics as corn on the cob and a movie isn't a movie without popcorn. | | | Maize is in the tribe Maydeae, Tripaceae or Androponeae in the sub-family of Panicoideae of the Graminae. | | | The catastrophic sexual transmutation theory (CSTT) proposed by Iltis (1983) hypothesized that the maize ear is the transformed feminized and condensed central spike that terminates the primary lateral branches. |
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/plbr604/Corn.htm
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| | Mycotoxin prevention and control in foodgrains - UK-THAI maize project |
| | Low aflatoxin maize was successfully produced during the rainy season in 35 trials in Loei and Lopburi provinces by mechanically drying freshly harvested maize with a history of 1 to 4 weeks pre-harvest drying in the field. | | | Maize that can be sun-dried, under sunny conditions in one day, is often of high quality but the sun-drying floor must be clean and tractor use must be limited to avoid cracking the kernels. | | | The control survey confirmed that maize at local merchants (with a history of 1 to 6 weeks temporary farm storage) and at regional merchants/ silos was already too high in aflatoxin content (in excess of 50 and 100 ppb respectively) to allow the production of low aflatoxin maize. |
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5036E/x5036E1g.htm
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| | Maize de Ocho's success was probably due to its thick rachis that better held the kernel to the stalk. | | | Maize itself is one of the defining charateristics used in classification of one of the best know cultures to emerge in from the Woodlands period, the Mississippian Tradition (Fagan 1995: Pauketat 1994). | | | This new maize is referred to as Maize de Ocho Maize de Ocho is highly adapted to arid conditions and produces higher yields than previous varieties of maize. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/3288/ARCHAEOLOGY.HTM
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | Whether the current perturbations of trends in maize production and prices will have similar effects on contemporary Mexican society, or whether the free-market strategies of the present Mexican administrations will successfully allay such catastrophic consequences, remains to be seen. | | | Also in the balance is the possibility that current economic and agricultural policies that reduce traditional maize production in Mexico may decimate the genetic treasury that is the Mexican maize germplasm pool, an important and recurrent contributor to the key hybrid germplasm of the U. maize belt. | | | Analyses by Barbara Williams of prehispanic codices show that a typical family unit of 6 individuals might cultivate 1.8 ha of land spread across 4 different parcels of varying soil quality, and that this land could produce an excess of 17% maize grain above the annual dietary needs of the family. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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