Modern corn comes from hybrid corn humans bred around 5,000 years ago in Mexico. Scientifically, the corn we eat today is all known as Zea mays. While you can find several varieties in the U.S., ...

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.

14, No. 2 (Feb., 1927), pp. 53-75 (26 pages) 1. The diploid number of chromosomes for all strains of Zea Mays studied, with the exception of Black Mexican sweet corn, is 20. 2. In one plant of Black ...

Skip to content viewer section. Four commercial hybrids of corn, Zea mays L., were evaluated for their responses to leaf-feeding by larvae of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith).