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L. Maize / meɪz / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.
Corn was originally domesticated in Mexico by native peoples by about 9,000 years ago. They used many generations of selective breeding to transform a wild grass with small grains into the rich source of food that is modern.
Corn, also known as maize and Zea mays was domesticated by indigenous peoples in this region thousands of years ago and has a rich history as a staple crop that has deeply influenced societies worldwide.
Kistler would like to work backward, using clues from ancient DNA to figure out what the earliest ancestors of modern corn looked like. Maezumi hopes to explore how other tropical crops became domesticated, and what that can tell her about the people who cultivated them and environmental conditions at the time.
Over thousands of years, selective breeding generated the broad diversity of corn varieties that are still grown around the world today. More maize is harvested each year than any other grain. The thousands of maize varieties grown around the world provide food for people and livestock.
The history of corn dates back to ancient Mexico, where farmers first selectively bred a wild grass that would become a major part of today’s world’s economy. Corn is part of the everyday lives of people around the world.
The history of corn is a 9,000-year journey of significant breakthroughs from early domestication to modern advancements that have occurred over the last decade. For a century, Pioneer has played a significant role in producing key innovations to the modern corn crop.
This chapter reviews the origin and cultivation of corn and the role of this cultivar in the actual global agriculture. In addition, the history of corn and its importance is discussed.
After briefly describing how corn traveled from Mesoamerica to Europe and Africa during the colonial period, this chapter describes several key processes through which corn became a ubiquitous, industrial “flex” crop.
The history of modern day corn begins about 10,000 years ago. Ancient farmers took the first steps in growing corn when they chose which kernels to plant. Corn comes from a wild grass plant called teosinte, which is still growing in Mexico today.