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1Corn Snake — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) …
2Corn Bunting — Conservation status …
3Corn Crake — Landrail redirects here. For the ships of the Royal Navy, see HMS Landrail. Corn Crake Conservation status …
4Corn exchange — For the defunct US bank, see Corn Exchange Bank. The Exchange in Bristol A corn exchange (Commonwealth English) or grain exchange (North American English) was a building where farmers and merchants traded cereal grains. Such trade was common in… …
5Waxy corn — (maize) was found in China in 1909. As this plant showed many peculiar traits, the American breeders long used it as a genetic marker to tag the existence of hidden genes in other maize breeding programs. In 1922 a researcher found that the… …
6plant breeding — Introduction application of genetic (genetics) principles to produce plants that are more useful to humans. This is accomplished by selecting plants found to be economically or aesthetically desirable, first by controlling the mating of… …
7Plant breeding — is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.[1] Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for …
8Sweet corn — Husked sweetcorn Sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa;[1] also called Indian corn, sugar corn, and pole corn) is a variety of maize with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in… …
9Royal Alexander Brink — (September 16, 1897 ndash; October 2, 1984), known more commonly as R. A. Brink, was a Canadian born plant geneticist and plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Brink was instrumental to the beginning of the Wisconsin maize… …
10Detasseling — The tassel of a corn plant Detasseling corn is removing the pollen producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control,[1] employed to cross breed, or hybridize,… …
