Maize
Episode 7 of the Herbarium of the Bizarre podcast, hosted by Meredith Hemphill, titled "Maize" was published on November 24, 2023 and runs 8 minutes.
November 24, 2023 ·8m · Herbarium of the Bizarre
Summary
Happy Native American Heritage Day in the United States! We’re talking about a plant that featured heavily in traditional Native American agriculture which has now become a huge global crop. In the U.S., it’s called corn, but the international name is maize. Music by James Milor from Pixabay Information provided by: https://www.britannica.com/plant/corn-plant https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/%E2%80%98all-corn-is-the-same%E2%80%99-and-other-foolishness-about-america%E2%80%99s-king-crops “A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping” by Yoshihiro Matsuoka, et al. https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.052125199 https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/History-of-Popcorn https://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN2632641520080226/ https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize
Episode Description
Happy Native American Heritage Day in the United States! We’re talking about a plant that featured heavily in traditional Native American agriculture which has now become a huge global crop. In the U.S., it’s called corn, but the international name is maize.
Music by James Milor from Pixabay
Information provided by:
- https://www.britannica.com/plant/corn-plant
- https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/%E2%80%98all-corn-is-the-same%E2%80%99-and-other-foolishness-about-america%E2%80%99s-king-crops
- “A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping” by Yoshihiro Matsuoka, et al. https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.052125199
- https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/History-of-Popcorn
- https://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN2632641520080226/
- https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize