 The same rows of corn 41 days later at maturity. The shorter corn in the young image (foreground) grew taller (right).
 Sweetcorn that has not been husked yet, headed to Market. Sweetcorn (otherwise known as Etzkorn or sweet corn, it is also known as sugar corn), is a hybridized variety of maize (Zea mays), specifically bred to increase the sugar content. Corn originated in Mesoamerica and spread to the rest of the world after European contact with the Americas in the late 1400s and early 1500s. Sweetcorn is commonly known as simply corn in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In Brazil it is known as "Milho Verde" (Green Corn). The fruit of the sweetcorn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a caryopsis. The ear is a collection of kernels on the cob. The ear is covered by tightly wrapped leaves called the husk. Silk is the name for the styles of the pistillate flowers, which emerge from the husk. The husk and silk are removed by hand, before boiling but not before roasting, in a process called husking or shucking. Corn http://geekphilosopher. ...
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The cultural areas of Mesoamerica The term Mesoamérica is used to refer to a geographical region that extends roughly from the Tropic of Cancer in central Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica, and which is characterized by the particular cultural homogeneity...
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In botany, a caryopsis is a type of simple dry fruit — one that is moncarpelate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat. ...
The Pistil is the part of the flower made up of one or more carpels. ...
Sweetcorn is commonly eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. The cobs are picked for relatively rapid distribution (or frozen in this 'soft' state) before the fruits mature into hard grains. The kernels are boiled or steamed and eaten as a side dish, sometimes with butter or salt, and are sometimes used as a pizza topping (particularly in the UK). Corn on the cob is a sweetcorn cob that has been boiled, steamed, or grilled whole; the kernels are then bitten off the cob with the teeth or cut off the cob and commonly served with butter. Creamed corn sometimes refers to sweetcorn kernels that are cut when removing from the cob to free the juices, and other times to a side dish made with corn and milk. Vegetables in a market Venn diagram representing the relationship between (botanical) fruits and vegetables. ...
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Butter is commonly sold in sticks (pictured) or blocks, and frequently served with the use of a butter knife. ...
A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) Salt covering the floor of Bad Water in Death Valley, CA, the lowest point in the US. A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral...
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In Chinese style cooking and increasingly in other styles, the ear is picked very young, while the cob is still soft, and the ear less than about 2 inches long, and eaten whole. Corn used for this purpose is often called "baby corn". Chinese cuisine is widely seen as representing one of the richest and most diverse culinary cuisines and heritages in the world. ...
Baby corn is a vegetable taken from standard maize (corn) plants harvested early, while the ears are very small and immature. ...
Sweetcorn may also be eaten in its dry grain form. If left to dry on the plant, kernels may be taken off the cob and cooked in oil where unlike popcorn they expand to about double the original kernel size. See Corn nuts. A soup may also be made from the plant, called sweet corn soup. Popcorn Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which explodes from the kernel and puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. ...
Corn nuts (or toasted corn) are a snack food made by roasting or deep frying maize. ...
Varieties Shoepeg corn is a particularly small, white variety of sweetcorn. Kernels that are allowed to mature to hard grains are used as seed corn or ground into corn flour. This article needs cleanup. ...
"Original" - that is, open-pollinated corn, which will breed true from seed - is now rare. Its chief drawback is that the sugars in it begin rapidly turning to starches as soon as it is picked, leading to such folk sayings as that one walks out to the corn field but runs back from it (to get the corn to the stove in as few seconds as possible); Mark Twain once suggested building corn roasters in the midst of corn fields. Starch (CAS# 9005-25-8) is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water; it is used by plants as a way to store excess glucose. ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. ...
From open-pollinated corn have been hybridized corn cultivars that are not only sweeter, but which notably hold their sweetness longer, supposedly for a few days. There are "generations" of such sugary hybrids, from extra-sweet through, nowadays, "triple-sweets". Corn fanciers like the holding power of the hybrids, but many feel that the true corn flavor is, in the more recent and sweeter hybrids, overpowered by the sweetness. The sweeter hybrids need to be isolated from other types, else they will cross-pollinate with them and lose their special character. Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes, and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. ...
Open-pollinated corn is referred to as "su" (sugary) corn; the first generation of hybrid sweets is "se" (sugar-enhanced); the newer supersweets--which today comprise multiple classes--are "sh" (shrunken-gene).
Botanical history Sweetcorn appears spontaneously in fields of dent corn due to a recessive mutation in the su (sugary) gene that regulates conversion of sugar to starch. Sweetcorn was first introduced to European-American settlers by the Native American population in the 1770s and to European-Canadian settlers by the First Nations. In the time since its introduction hundreds of cultivars have developed; however, rapid starch conversion has always been a problem when storing sweet corn. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dominance relationship. ...
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Commercial production in the 20th century saw the rise of the se (sugary enhanced) mutants, which are more suitable for local fresh sales, and in the 1950s the sh2 (shrunken-2) gene was isolated that minimized production of the enzyme that converts sugar to starch, delaying it for sometimes more than a week; however, since sh2 is recessive, supersweet varieties must be grown in isolation from other varieties to avoid cross-pollination and resulting starchiness, either in space (various sources quote minimum quarantine distances from 100 to 400 feet / 30.5 to 122 m) or in time (i.e. the supersweet corn does not pollinate at the same time as other corn in nearby fields). A flower-fly pollinating a Common Daisy (Bellis perennis) Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). ...
For colder conditions, some seed providers such as Vesey's Seeds of Canada provide a fourth type of sweet corn, known as sy (for synergistic); this variety of corn mixes se and sh2 kernels on the same cob and does not require isolation.
Today very few heirloom varieties of sweetcorn are grown. Almost all varieties grown commercially are hybrids. Only a few of the many varieties of potato are commercially grown; others are heirlooms. ...
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Environmental factors Historically a variety of pesticides have been used in the growing of corn, particularly when the end use is human consumption (rather than for use in ethanol fuel production). In the cases where DDT, a persistent chemical in soils, was applied, residual concentrations of DDT and derivative decomposition products have been measured in the soil years after corn production ceased on a given plot of land. These residual concentrations are quite variable and depend upon soil type, rainfall, topography, intensity of pesticide dosage and other factors. In one study in Santa Clara County, California, residual DDT levels in the upper 18 inches of soil were measured to be in the range of 0.2 to 6.8 parts per million.(Earth Metrics, 1989) A cropduster spreading pesticide. ...
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DDT was the first modern pesticide and is arguably the best known organic pesticide. ...
A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ...
Excavation of leaking underground storage tank causing soil contamination Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration of the natural soil environment. ...
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Location of Santa Clara County within California. ...
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// Maya may refer to: The Maya, Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America Maya peoples, the contemporary indigenous peoples Maya civilization, their historical pre-Columbian civilization Mayan languages, the family of languages spoken by the Maya Yucatec Maya language, specific and most widespread Mayan language, frequently referred...
References - Earth Metrics, Phase II Environmental Site Assessment, Prior Corn Cultivation Areas, Sunnyvale, California, City of Sunnyvale Report 7369.W3, September 22, 1989
- Hamilton, Dave (2005). Sweetcorn. Retrieved June. 11, 2005, accessible August 2006.
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