Ultimately, maize and corn are the same crop ... as a name for the plant when a scientific name was settled on -- Zea mays. In Europe, maize (or a cognate thereof) is the word of choice, and ...

Blue corn (Zea mays azul) is a Mexican type of corn known for its distinctive dark blue or purple corn kernels. It has several sub-varieties (like Hopi Maize and Rio Grande Blue) and is ...

Skip to content viewer section. Field tests at Mississippi State, MS, and Tifton, GA, were conducted to evaluate the effect of resistance of a maize, Zea mays (L.), germplasm population, 'GT-FAWCC(C5) ...

McClintock’s maize breeding experiments provided the ... Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays changed the way scientists think about genetic patterns of inheritance.