A report on Maize

Plant fragments dated to 4200 BC found in the Guilá Naquitz Cave in Oaxaca, Mexico, showed maize had already been domesticated from teosinte.
Cultivation of maize in an illustration from the 16th c. Florentine Codex
Ancient Mesoamerican relief, National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico
Many small male flowers make up the male inflorescence, called the tassel.
Zea mays 'Ottofile giallo Tortonese` – MHNT
Zea mays "strawberry"—MHNT
Zea mays "Oaxacan Green" MHNT
Variegated maize ears
Multicolored corn kernels (CSIRO)
Exotic varieties of maize are collected to add genetic diversity when selectively breeding new domestic strains
Teosinte (top), maize-teosinte hybrid (middle), maize (bottom)
Stucco head of the Maya maize god, 550–850 AD
Seedlings three weeks after sowing
Young stalks
Mature plants showing ears
Mature maize ears
Harvesting maize, Jones County, Iowa
Harvesting maize, Rantasalmi, South Savonia, Finland
Hand-picking harvest of maize in Myanmar
Production of maize (2019)
Semi-peeled corn on the cob
Poster showing a woman serving muffins, pancakes, and grits, with canisters on the table labeled corn meal, grits, and hominy, US Food Administration, 1918
Mexican tamales made with corn meal
Boiled corn on a white plate
Farm-based maize silage digester located near Neumünster in Germany, 2007. Green inflatable biogas holder is shown on top of the digester.
Children playing in a maize kernel box
Female inflorescence, with young silk
Mature silk
Stalks, ears and silk
Male flowers
Full-grown maize plants
Mature maize ear on a stalk
Maize kernels
Maize plant diagram
Ear of maize with irregular rows of kernels
With white and yellow kernels

Maize (Zea mays subsp.

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Ugali and sukuma wiki (collard greens)

Ugali

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Ugali and sukuma wiki (collard greens)
Friends at Chikondi, Malawi, eating nsima, ndiwo, and masamba
Ugali with beef and sauce
Yawo women preparing ugali for a large gathering.
Tuo zaafi
A woman stirring sagtulga
Tuo zaafi and ayoyo soup
Eating ugali in Kenya
Nsima (top right corner) with three relishes
A dish of uphuthu (right) served with skop (meat from the head of a cow)
A man and a woman cooking Sadza in Botswana (Domboshaba Cultural festival 2017)
Ugali and cabbage
Phutu, pictured with tomato-based relish in the foreground
A meal of sadza (right), greens, and goat offal. The goat's small intestines are wrapped around small pieces of large intestines before cooking.
Ugali and usipa (small fish), staples of the Yawo people of the African Great Lakes.

Ugali, or sima, is a type of stiff maize flour porridge made in Africa.

A fodder factory set up by an individual farmer to produce customised cattle feed

Fodder

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Any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

Any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

A fodder factory set up by an individual farmer to produce customised cattle feed
Round hay bales
Newton of Cawdor stack of bales, sweet-smelling fodder stored for winter
Cut green fodder being transported to cattle in Tanzania
Feed crusher. 1976
On-site system in the US
Farmer mills branches of shrubs for the production of low-cost animal fodder in Namibia

The use of agricultural land to grow feed rather than human food can be controversial (see food vs. feed); some types of feed, such as corn (maize), can also serve as human food; those that cannot, such as grassland grass, may be grown on land that can be used for crops consumed by humans.

Corn tortilla

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This drawing is a recreation of the corn tortilla glyph found in the Codex Mendoza
Tacos (Chicago)
Tortillas of blue corn
Toasted tortillas are used for making tlayudas being sold by a street vendor in Oaxaca
Automatic tortilla machine (explanation)
Tortillas being made in Old Town San Diego

In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy, that is the whole kernels of maize treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization.

A bowl of cooked baby corn

Baby corn

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A bowl of cooked baby corn
Baby corn still in the husk
A stir fry of a mixture of vegetables including baby corn

Baby corn (also known as young corn, cornlets or baby sweetcorn) is a cereal grain taken from corn (maize) harvested early while the stalks are still small and immature.

Mycotoxin

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Toxic secondary metabolite produced by organisms of kingdom Fungi and is capable of causing disease and death in both humans and other animals.

Toxic secondary metabolite produced by organisms of kingdom Fungi and is capable of causing disease and death in both humans and other animals.

Aflatoxins are largely associated with commodities produced in the tropics and subtropics, such as cotton, peanuts, spices, pistachios, and maize.

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

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State-owned research corporation affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.

State-owned research corporation affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.

Africa Regional Office in Ghana

Embrapa Maize & Sorghum, Sete Lagoas, MG. Research and development for the production chains of maize, sorghum, and other tropical cereals.

Peas are an annual plant.

Annual plant

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Plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies.

Plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies.

Peas are an annual plant.

Examples of true annuals include corn, wheat, rice, lettuce, peas, watermelon, beans, zinnia and marigold.

Skillet cornbread

Cornbread

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Quick bread made with cornmeal, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine.

Quick bread made with cornmeal, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine.

Skillet cornbread
Cornbread, prepared as a muffin
Home-baked cornbread made with blue cornmeal
Johnnycakes on a plate
Collard sandwich with fried cornbread, collard greens, and fatback
Pan-baked Southern-style cornbread, made with yellow cornmeal.

Native people in the Americas began using corn (maize) and ground corn as food for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the New World.

Donald F. Jones

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Donald Forsha Jones (April 16, 1890 – June 19, 1963) was a United States maize geneticist and practical corn breeder at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven.

Three varieties of taco (clockwise from left): carnitas, carne asada and al pastor. As is traditional, they are each garnished simply with cilantro and chopped onion, and served with lime on the side for seasoning to the taste of the consumer.

Taco

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Traditional Mexican food consisting of a small hand-sized corn- or wheat-based tortilla topped with a filling.

Traditional Mexican food consisting of a small hand-sized corn- or wheat-based tortilla topped with a filling.

Three varieties of taco (clockwise from left): carnitas, carne asada and al pastor. As is traditional, they are each garnished simply with cilantro and chopped onion, and served with lime on the side for seasoning to the taste of the consumer.
Three varieties of taco (clockwise from left): carnitas, carne asada and al pastor. As is traditional, they are each garnished simply with cilantro and chopped onion, and served with lime on the side for seasoning to the taste of the consumer.
Tacos al pastor made with adobada meat.
Two fish tacos in Bonita, California
Three soft-shell tacos with beef filling at a restaurant in Helsinki, Finland
Typical breakfast taco with eggs, sausage and salsa
Tacos made with a carnitas filling
Grilled shrimp taco
Tacos de suadero (grey) and chorizo (red) being prepared at a taco stand
Barbacoa tacos
Taco al pastor with guacamole
A hard-shell taco, made with a prefabricated shell
Common ingredients for North American hard shell tacos
A crispy taco from a Sacramento, California taqueria
A puffy taco
A frybread taco
A fish taco on frybread

Taco in the sense of a typical Mexican dish comprising a maize tortilla folded around food is just one of the meanings connoted by the word, according to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española. This meaning of the Spanish word "taco" is a Mexican innovation, but the word "taco" is used in other contexts to mean "wedge; wad, plug; billiard cue; blowpipe; ramrod; short, stocky person; [or] short, thick piece of wood."