Maize
(Science: botany) a large species of American grass of the genus zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
2 Maize (Zea mays)
Pasterniani (1969) produced almost complete reproductive isolation between two varieties of maize. The varieties were distinguishable by seed color, white versus yellow. Other genetic markers allowed him to identify hybrids.
Maize uses the C4 pathway, minimizing photorespiration.
Since photorespiration requires additional energy from the light reactions of photosynthesis, some plants have mechanisms to reduce uptake of molecular oxygen by RuBisCO.
corn (maize)
wheat
rice
and all the other cereal grains upon which we depend so heavily for food as well as
sugar cane and bamboo ...
Selective breeding of maize
Although humans have been manipulating organisms for millennia, genetic engineering simplifies and targets manipulations in an unprecedented way.
GSDB staff also has utilized discontiguous sequences to construct maps for maize and rice. The maize discontiguous sequences were constructed using markers from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Other more commercially important plants like rice, wheat, maize and soybean are also having their genomes sequenced, although some of these are more challenging because they have more than two haploid (n) sets of chromosomes, ...
- Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains. The second-largest cereal crop, tied with maize; the third being rice.
History: Transposition was discovered by Barbara McClintock in the late 1940ies during her studies on maize genetics ('jumping genes'). 1983 she won the Nobel Prize for her transposon research.
See retrotransposon.
Commonly used sources are corn (maize), wheat, potato, rice
Glycogen ...
A plant species in which male and female organs are found on the same plant but in different flowers (for example maize).
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It is a plant model system of choice because of the additional advantages of short generation time (about five weeks), high seed production (up to 40,000 seeds per plant) and natural self-pollination (as opposed to natural cross-pollination in maize).
 See also: Plant, Organ, Trans, Animal, Cell
  
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