Nestle Golden Morn Instant Cereal (Maize) - 1 kg

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Tropical landraces remain an important and underused source of resistance alleles – both those for disease and for herbivores. Cereal flour consists either of the endosperm, germ, and bran together (whole-grain flour) or of the endosperm alone (refined flour).

Grasses have stems that are hollow except at the nodes and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks.

Much maize is used for animal feed, whether as grain or as the whole plant, which can either be baled or made into the more palatable silage. Kunzig, Robert (April 2011) The Big Idea: Perennial Grains Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.

Maize sustains a billion dollars' worth of losses annually from each of two major insect pests, namely the European corn borer or ECB ( Ostrinia nubilalis) and corn rootworms ( Diabrotica spp) western corn rootworm, northern corn rootworm, and southern corn rootworm. It has a worldwide consumption but it is a staple food of North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil and much of the Greater Middle East. Barbara McClintock used maize to validate her transposon theory of "jumping genes", for which she won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Alternatively, contact us on 0208 8353 1000* and select option 403 to speak to our technical department for further assistance. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures.The following table shows the annual production of cereals in 1961, 1980, 2000, 2010, and 2019/2020. For more information on how to do this, have a look in the help section of your web browser or in the settings on your mobile if you're using the app (coming soon).

Doebley and colleagues showed in 2002 that maize had been domesticated only once, about 9,000 years ago, and then spread throughout the Americas. Those of economic importance include diseases of the leaf, smuts such as corn smut, ear rots and stalk rots. Maize flour has been important in Mesoamerican cuisine since ancient times and remains a staple in the Americas.Cultivated wetlands and emerging complexity in south-central Chile and long distance effects of climate change" (PDF).