It would later become cemented 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 you can trace this back ...

This exhibit “focuses on the complex story of one of the world’s most important crop plants, maize (Zea mays), which is used ...

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