Springer, 2009. — 587 p. ISBN: 978-0-387-79417-4. e-ISBN: 978-0-387-79418-1. In Handbook of Maize, the authors attempt to capture a significant portion of the great diversity of high quality research in the maize scientific community. Handbook of Maize covers much of the breadth of research within the Maize community. It should be noted that no other book, monograph series or...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 586 p. First published in Spanish as "El Maíz. Su origen, su domesticación y el rol que ha cumplido en el desarrollo de la Cultura" by Universidad de San Martín de Porres, 2008. ISBN 978-1-107-02303-1. This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize. Using a variety of...
University of Hawaii, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, 2003. — 74 p. ISBN: 1-929325-15-0. Tropical islands have an annoying way of providing a suitable climate to grow any plant without providing the market conditions to make it economically viable. This is certainly true of corn production in Hawaii. Economic production of corn in Hawaii, as in the rest of...
New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011. — 377 p. — (Agriculture Issues and Policies Series). — ISBN: 978-1-60876-860-8. Corn or maize is a crop that originated in Mexico and has spread all over the world as a major food crop. Sustainable production of a corn field crop as grain corn for feed, food and biofuels, as well as sweet corn for fresh market or processing, and as...
2-nd Edition. — CRC Press, 2001. — 496 p. ISBN: 0-8493-2377-0. Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Specialty Corns includes everything in the first edition and more. Considered the standard in this field, significant changes have been made to keep all the information current and bring the references up-to-date. Two new chapters have been added to keep up with...
3rd Edition. — Woodhead Publishing, 2019. — 666 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811971-6. This book, Third Edition, provides a broad perspective on corn from expert agronomists, food scientists and geneticists. This encyclopedic storehouse of comprehensive information on all aspects of the world’s largest crop (in metric tons) includes extensive coverage of recent development in genetic...
Greenpeace México, 2009. — 33 p. This document aims to recover the history of the scientific research and socio-cultural aspects related to the origin and diversity of native maize, in order to allow the peoples of America rescue the plant which is a symbol of the American continent and its culture. This document was written for Greenpeace Mexico by Dr. José Antonio Serratos...
Springer, 2009. - 262 p. ISBN: 978-3-642-04505-9 e-ISBN: 978-3-642-04506-6 Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of botanical research, and its recent role as one of the most important economic staples in the world....
Academic Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-12-369364-0 Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread...
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