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Cereal Grain Quality

Abstract

Maize is known in different parts of the world as Zea mays, maize or corn. It is indigenous to the Americas with its origin believed to be in Central Mexico (Benson and Pierce, 1987; Johnson, 1991) although it is currently produced on every continent except Antarctica. It is a highly domesticated plant (evidence suggests that it was domesticated prior to 5000 BC; Benson and Pierce, 1987) with little remaining ability to propagate in the wild. It probably has the widest range of genetic diversity of any of the major cereal grains.

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Eckhoff, S.R., Paulsen, M.R. (1996). Maize. In: Henry, R.J., Kettlewell, P.S. (eds) Cereal Grain Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1513-8_3

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