How To Use Maize In A Sentence

The Shambaa diet is composed of starchy foods such as rice, maize, and sweet potatoes.
Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash.
Others, before the introduction of maize, lived mostly on millet, sorghum, and bananas with such greenstuffs as could be gathered.
Maize is consumed as tortillas, which accompany rice and beans - typically eaten three times a day with eggs, cheese, meat, or chicken and with chayote stew or salad at lunch or supper.
Besides, he caused a general visitation to be made of all the land from Quito to Chile, registering the whole population for more than a thousand leagues; and imposed a tribute [_so heavy that no one could be owner of a_ mazorca _of maize, which is their bread for food, nor of a pair of_ usutas, _which are their shoes, nor marry, nor do a single thing without special licence from Tupac Inca. History of the Incas

* The Minister of Agriculture to review the use of surplus funds carried from levies on the 1994 crop, and to make levies available to stabilize the price of maize for human consumption in the coming season, rather than paying levies to commercial farmers as an "agterskot" as has been suggested in a press statement by ANC Daily News Briefing
Yet despite variable environments, new commercially available maize hybrids continue to be produced each year with ever-increasing harvestable yield.
The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
You can even use a limited amount of starchy adjuncts - such as flaked maize, flaked oats or flaked barley FriendFeed - georgeh
These results illustrate that variation exists in maize for the impact of ploidy on gene expression.
Endosperm starch content of sweet maize was lower than normal corn notably.
But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
Maize, millet, and sorghum push thorugh the soil with spikelike tips which aid emergence. Chapter 8
In the traditional menu maize dishes, goat meat, fish, and stewpots of local vegetables (peas, beans) dominate.
Laurie and Ken Graff are using The Maize's services on their family farm and ranch in Hondo, Texas, for the seventh year--though they do things a little differently.
Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association and Britain's most famous crop trasher, who famously pulled up six-and-a-half acres of GM maize in 1999, says that £20m of taxpayers 'money has gone into GM crop research since 1997, despite the fact that not a single crop is grown in the UK. Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right
Wheat, maize and sugar beet are planted in rotation.
There are fields of maize and little plots of white daisies.
With that aid, they're building wells, increasing chicken and goat production, reforesting their land with fruit-bearing trees and cassava, and planting maize, beans and sweet potatoes.
In fact, the residents abandoned cultivating their traditional crops like barley, maize, millet and potatoes soon after the Malana charas became famous among drug users around the world in the 1980s.
In Britain, this flour usually goes under the name of maize meal.
It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops.
Patice is given a panga, ploughshare, planer, bag of maize, bag of beans and small packets of tomato, onion, pumpkin and cabbage seed and he puts all of these in a hessian bag.
High producing dairy herds are feeding equal parts maize meal, barley and wheat.
One day while I was husking maize, after my daily devotion, my father's mother came and sat by me.
Earlier this year CBN imported Copper Crest, which is touted as a traditional beer made from sorghum, maize, hops and caramel with yeast.
Earlier this year, the Zimbabwean government claimed it would be harvesting a bumper maize crop of 2.4 million tons.
The effect on poor countries, where maize is mostly used to make animal feed, is significant.
They are made either from a pasta dough or from a mixture of potato flour and wheat flour, or from semolina or maize.
Facing them 200 yards away are the neat files of white sacks containing split peas and maize, each attended by companies of askari.
Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts.
Grains rich in fibres are barley, oatmeal, maize, wheat flour, jowar, bajra, whole wheat, rice flakes, refined wheat flour (without husk) and puffed rice. Effective Home Remedies for Diabetes
Indigenous Mexicans believe that God created humanity from an ear of corn and call themselves ‘people of maize’.
Vetiver is a member of the same subtribe of grasses as sorghum and maize, and it may prove to be a sacrificial barrier to the spread of striga. 4 Questions and Answers
For example, beet and rape support more biodiversity than maize (which is much taller, inhibiting the growth of weeds beneath).
The inclusion rates of finely ground feed should be kept to a minimum (for example, ground cereals, maize gluten).
The team was first formed in the 1960s in response to a dual epidemic of maize chlorotic dwarf virus and a potyvirus, maize dwarf mosaic virus, that devastated Ohio's cornfields.
It is incumbent upon the authorities to meet with road transporters and where need be smooth out the technical details of how maize could be brought into the country without delay.
- The dibbled spacing in rows is at approximately 1 m, greater for maize than for beans, which are spread out at a distance of 30 cm. 1. Overview
[178-11] The _corn_ is grain of some kind, not our maize or Indian corn. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Mash any malts, barley, maize and wheat in a mash tun for 90min at 66°C. Sparge with 3 gallons of water at 70°C.
Crops produced by these projects include mahango, maize, groundnuts, corn, cotton and various vegetables.
It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
The amount of the amino acids threonine, proline and histidine were also increased in roots of slag-cultivated maize plants.
I left the shop with flaked maize, Briess 6-row pale malted barley, Briess flaked rye, Weyermann rye malt, a 3-gallon carboy, three packets of Pasteur Champagne yeast, a hydrometer, and a thermometer. CHASING the WHITE DOG
Sometimes food is barbecued bananas or goat satays, maize or cashews, all purchased through the bus window as we pass through small villages of thatched-roofed mud huts.
Its portfolio includes a fund that tracks the price of soy beans, maize and wheat. Times, Sunday Times
But many brokers predict a long-term downward trend for maize due to the likelihood of a heavily oversupplied market.
The Namibian Agronomic Board this week resisted pressure to issue import permits for maize meal from South Africa.
Knollwood sweater depicted -- in silk or wool -- putty, maize, navy, rose, copen, or white -- $35. Gigolo
Submergence stress result in oxygen limitation in maize roots.
Doctors tell of people drawing up rosters, with one person given "sadza", a stiff maizemeal porridge that is the national staple, while the rest eat only boiled cabbage. The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
The bottom line we feel is to ensure a speedy delivery of maize to millers so that production operations are not disrupted.
They also produce yields as much as 10 per cent higher than the best local hybrid maize varieties and are more tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses.
It was followed up by a protocol that included both sweetcorn and maize - and therefore this follows on the answer I have already given - and that has since been revised again.
It can be intercropped with maize, sorghum or millet. Chapter 7
Maize was domesticated from its wild progenitor, teosinte, between 6,250 and 10,000 years ago in a single domestication event.
Application of NaCl to the root system of maize plants exerts a strong water stress onto the plants.
Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash.
Two other important staple crops are cassava and maize.
In maize, in particular, cell death events are known to occur throughout normal development both in the sporophyte and in the gametophyte.
Many farmers stopped producing cocoa altogether or switched to food crops, like maize or cassava, that fetched more reliable prices.
Various experiments were carried out adding maize oil and lard to the diet. Eczema Relief - the comprehensive self-help plan
A few months ago 100 kg of maize would have cost 40 birr ((pounds) 3.25).
The banana, planted with a careless hand, supplies the staff of life, besides thatch, fuel, and fibre for nets and lines: when they want cereals, maize, holcus, and panicum will grow almost spontaneously. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The APR of maize and Arabidopsis thaliana follows a diurnal rhythm with maximum activity during the light period.
The maize harvesters are working flat out, with all the signs pointing to excellent yields and feed quality from early-drilled crops.
Modern, corporate farming - monocultural rice, or maize grown for export as cattle feed - is a prime cause of the deficiency that leads to blindness.
He has three agricultural centres growing rice, corn, maize and peanuts.
These 648 plants, representing selfed progenies of irradiated maize chromosome 9 monosomic addition line plants, were screened for the presence or absence of maize DNA.
The main crops that are harvested for this are maize, rice, wheat, and potatoes.
Over 90 percent of the population of nearly one million in Manica Province is engaged in production of maize and sorghum staples on small parcels of land called machambas.
The occurrence of directional evolution for microsatellite size indicates that the estimation of population parameters with microsatellite data in maize should be done with caution.
Hence, the polymorphism hypothesis is attractive because it could help to explain how a segmentally duplicated genome such as that of maize can avoid deleterious ectopic recombination between paralogs.
Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop, far ahead of maize, taro or sago.
The contents of protein, sugar, starch and lysine in maize plant are critical to maize quality.
The main crop was maize, and harvests varied with the weather and farming methods.
Three unshared genes in rice and one unshared gene in maize were given alphabetical designations.
With his gluten-free menu, the emphasis is on breads made from different types of flour, such as millet, maize, sogram and gram flour, which are easier to digest than wheat and suitable for coeliacs.
R40 per ton (agterskot) for maize delivered in the 1994/95 season, ANC Daily News Briefing
Maize was sown on two dates in each year; thus, plants sown early were exposed to low temperature, whereas those sown later developed under more favourable conditions.
Namibia's leading miller, Namib Mills, said on Wednesday it will reduce the prices of the staple food, maize meal and wheat flour products.
The abundant rainfall last autumn did not allow them to cultivate the land and sow autumn crops, and they had to substitute with sunflower and maize.
The researchers observed more beetles in genetically modified, rather than conventional, maize crops.
Corn, or maize, is an old crop. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
Sucrose synthase genes have been isolated primarily from starch-storing plants, such as maize, rice, barley, potato, mung bean, and pea.
To localize genes of interest we have used common markers among foxtail millet, maize, and rice genomes.
They grow maize, sorghum, cassava, sweet potatoes and also rear domesticated animals like goats, pigs and chicken.
This year's maize crop is expected to fail, worsening already serious food shortages.
A typical maize leaf can be divided along three axes, the proximodistal, mediolateral, and dorsiventral or ad/abaxial.
These could then be inserted into staple crops such as wheat, rice or maize. Times, Sunday Times
He said the private sector was failing to buy maize from farmers because of the floor price which they could not meet and high interest rates the banks charged to borrow money.
In maize, starch granules from different genetic lines can be more resistant or be more susceptible to digestion by amylase from B. amyloliquefaciens, depending on the structure of amylopectin and dextrin.
Since processed maize is highly cariogenic, dental caries and resulting tooth loss increase with the adoption of maize agriculture.
This area includes the Maize Triangle of the eastern highveld and the northeastern Free State in South Africa.
Certain Council regulations provided that production refunds should be payable for maize starch, but that they should be abolished in the case of maize groats and meal, which were used in the production of beer.
In the exodermis of sunflower, aliphatic suberin is more abundant (by a factor of 2-3) compared to maize roots grown in aeroponics.
The giant maize maze has been harvested to make way for activities that will include fairground rides, a scary pantomime and a haunted house. Times, Sunday Times
They are made either from a pasta dough or from a mixture of potato flour and wheat flour, or from semolina or maize.
A police spokesman Monday said he took with him a bible as a quantity of "sadza", Zimbabweans 'staple diet of stiff maize-meal porridge. ANC Daily News Briefing
Equinoctial America nowhere produces, not even on the back of the Andes, an oak resembling the Quercus suber; and neither the light wood of the bombax, the ochroma, and other malvaceous plants, nor the rhachis of maize, of which the natives make use, can well supply the place of our corks. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Comparison of these sequences with those from modern day maize and teosinte samples confirmed modern alleles were present in Mexican maize some 4400 years ago.
The villagers cultivate mostly maize and beans.
It used to be described as the bread basket of southern Africa, with neat fields of maize and soya growing in rich red soil and farmers notching up world records for yields.
In maize, as in all flowering plants, the seed develops inside a coat of maternal origin.
Maize made into a thick porridge, called ugali, is the national dish of Kenya.
The people, as I have said, are very polished and intelligent, and go always clad and shod; they eat maize both cooked and raw, and drink much chicha, which is a beverage made from maize after the fashion of beer. Relación de la conquista del Perú. English
The period is characterized by the gradual introduction of maize and other tropical cultigens, gradually transforming the resident hunter-gatherer populations into sedentary agricultural communities.
Latest monitoring of dairy pasture and maize cropping sites throughout the region showed an increase in the levels of anaerobically mineralisable nitrogen and phosphorus in dairy sites, which could potentially lead to increased pollution of our water bodies. ScreenTalk
Ground into cornmeal and cooked into a thick porridge known as sadza, maize and a handful of boiled vegetable leaves are all his family eats in a typical meal. ReliefWeb - Headlines
In many places, maize sells for up to half-a-dollar (0.42 euros) per kilogram as opposed to 13 cents per kilogram at state-run depots where it has not been available for months. ANC Daily News Briefing
This settlement contains, by admeasurement, 134 acres, a part of which is planted with maize, very backward, but in general tolerably good, and beautifully green. The Settlement at Port Jackson
a gorge and they drove a cyclist into a patch of maize, they narrowly missed a goat and jumped three gullies, thrice the horse stumbled and was jerked up in time, there were sickening moments, and withal they got down to Piedimulera unbroken and unspilt. The Research Magnificent
The best - known grains are wheat, barley, oats, rye and maize.
Mr Li said the low profits that farmers had realised from the sale of their produce mainly maize last year had been the main contributing factor.
These have led to cuts in food subsidies, resulting in pressure to tear up maize and cassava in order to grow crops like tobacco which can be used to sell for foreign currency.
McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. Photos of 2� Feria de Ma�z Criollo, P�tzcuaro
This result is consistent with observations for other species that show Al-stimulated organic acid anion release, including wheat, maize and buckwheat.
With his gluten-free menu, the emphasis is on breads made from different types of flour, such as millet, maize, sogram and gram flour, which are suitable for coeliacs.
Premium quality maize and barley is kibbled to optimise digestibility and increase the rumen utilisation rate.
A favorite beverage of the Sherpas is Chang, a beer made from maize, millet, or other grains.
The farms of Nixons, Swantons, Alex's, Stranos and Newlands roads are growing a variety of crops including sugar cane, peanuts, tomatoes, melons, pumpkins and maize.
If you somehow recovered genetic material from such an extinct organism that was contemporaneous w/humans from the same 10-40 kya time frame, and it showed a similar pattern of change to humans and maize (corn) and say, domestic dogs then wouldn't you be safe in inferring that humans had tried to domesticate that organism? Choosing To Evolve
Improving maize resistance to corn borer is an economical and effective technique to reduce the yield loss caused by insect damage.
Gerstenkorn, P.; Swingelberg: Maize conditioning and milling in Mhle und Mischfuttertechnik, 1975, Vol. 6, No. 112, pp. Groupe de recherches et d'changes technologiques: Fichier technique du dveloppement, fascicule No. 29 (Paris, 1983). Chapter 10
Their staple food was something we called mealie-meal, or sadza: maize porridge so thick you could cut it. Times, Sunday Times
She became one of the founders of the field of maize cytogenetics, the genetic study of maize at the cellular level.
It was estimated that 61 percent of the maize growing area was planted with white maize, the source of mielie-meal for human consumption, compared with 53 percent the previous year. ANC Daily News Briefing
Maize and squash were cultivated in river valleys, and after ad 1200 beans were grown too.
Fields that once rippled with maize and wheat lie abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
Each representative is obliged to provide a band, abundant supplies of maize beer and alcohol, food, two bulls for the bullfight, and prizes for the best toreros.
It may be intercropped with other crops such as maize. Chapter 7
However, the economy is primarily agrarian, with principal crops of rice, sugar cane, maize, and wheat.
They include miscanthus, below, a type of grass, zea mays, a variety of maize, and banana trees. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike conventional biofuel crops, such as maize and sugar cane, it does not compete for space needed to grow food. Times, Sunday Times
The maize grew up six ears to the stalk, thicker and milkier than any corn had ever been before. He Don't Know Him
The plants included miscanthus grass, maize and banana trees. Times, Sunday Times
In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins.
Normal maize plants show strong apical dominance with one main axis of growth.
Their maize crop failed when no rains came and a second crop looks to be heading the same way after the driest season in decades. Times, Sunday Times
The seizures have disrupted the production of maize, Zimbabwe's staple food, and tobacco, the biggest foreign currency earner.
The tall, densely planted fields of maize that are still standing have not much to offer birds. Times, Sunday Times
Adult insects were dipped in conidial suspensions (10 8 conidia/ml), returned to maize or beans, respectively, and retained at 25°-28°C and 60% r.h. B. brongniarti caused 89% mortality in adult A. obtectus within 15 days and 47% mortality in adult S. zeamais; M. anisopliae caused less than 50% mortality in either species. Chapter 8
Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen.
Villagers cultivate maize, wheat and barley on verdant hillside terraces buttressed by stone escarpments.
When planted in a mixture with maize or cocoyam, the distance between the 6.1 General recommendations
We observed a relatively low, although significant, level of differentiation between maize and teosinte.
Peas and lentils were sown along with cereals on the first farms of the Middle East; the New World grew beans and maize, soy and mung were planted alongside Asian rice, and peanuts aided sub-Saharan root crops.
Most villagers have a small plot of land on which they farm maize, groundnuts, cassava, millet, sweet potatoes, and other products.
If we go ahead with growing GM maize here, it will be the thin end of a very thick wedge, and a huge political gamble.
Though shortages are often blamed on the use of land for biofuel crops, the main biofuel cereal crop is maize, not wheat. Times, Sunday Times
He said that a basket of basic food including oil, maize meal, sugar, samp, bread flour and rice which cost R126 this time last year now costs R202.
In the kitchen, what match with maize phase modulation is the log desk desk that he assemble, and washroom used blue to spell presbyopic glasses face to make window.
She has a mentality that even if we don't have money at least we have maize to make tortillas to eat.
The Mediterranean would be hit by significant droughts and maize and wheat harvests in Africa nearly halved. The Sun
In maize, the stomium is located at the meeting point of the two loculi that make up each half anther.
About half the people eat rice as their staple, while the remainder subsist on wheat, barley, maize, and millet.
Processing of maize further reduces the nutritive value by removing the outer layers of the kernels, which contain a significant portion of the nutrients.
‘Even if the maize meal is available locally, the problem is that the price is too expensive,’ said Meygag.
Following a traditional recipe, the scientists prepared the maize and analysed the contents.
Mature leaves of maize were taken from plants grown in the greenhouse during the summer.
It has reported huge unexploited oil and gas resources, but today agriculture is the backbone of the country's economy with coffee, rice and maize the main commodities.
They have in the recent past included sugar, maize and maize seed, beef, stockfeed, cement, tobacco, some medicaments and cosmetics.
But many brokers predict a long-term downward trend for maize due to the likelihood of a heavily oversupplied market.
Families will be hard hit as dependence on imports of wheat and maize increases, they said. The Sun
But to eradicate malnutrition, we grow maize, beans, soya beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, pumpkins and many others.
This is a region where one field can produce pumpkins, clover and maize, as well as, of course, grapes.
By potting under greenhouse conditions, compared with prometryn and atrazine, the security of terbuthylazine to cotton, maize and peanut was studied.
Competing crops like maize and cashew, however, yield Rs 9,000 per hectare.
A no - till planter was designed that can work on the field bestrewing whole maize straw.
Even then, cocoa was a cash crop, the seeds traded for gold, silver, turquoise, maize, oil, beans, incense and cotton.
‘Gluten free’ flour and bread are available and usually contain starch from maize or rice, with some of the elastic properties of gluten being provided by guar gum or similar substances.
Sour milk porridge with sugar for pudding, crumbly phutu squeezed into a ball with my fingers and dipped into gravy, samp (broken maize kernels) boiled with beans, all favourites, and the gastronomic mixing of cultures didn't end there.
Page 477 better food than maize, although the cracked and inferior rice, that would be unmerchantable, is alone given them. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
We pushed forwards along an irrigation ditch on the side of a maize field. The Sun
Fears over potential super weeds being created are misplaced - since hybrid maize would not be a weed, but merely a GM crop with increased productivity.
Maize, a relatively new crop, is looking like a total disaster, according to Mr Dempsey.
We conduct research on crops such as cowpea, soybean, banana, plaintain, yam, cassava and maize. Politics in Ireland - Irish Politics
Other cold-swelling starches in the range are derived from maize and tapioca, which can be declared on labels as 'cornflour' and 'tapioca starch' respectively. FoodNavigator RSS
Maize's large seeds and spikelike emergence gives it the best clod-handling ability of the reference crops. Chapter 8
TY series threshers are supposed to be applied to thresh maize ear after peeling.
The differential localization of GA-like substances occurs between the lower and upper halves of gravistimulated shoots of oats, sunflowers and maize.
No need to worry over wheat when you're harvesting barley, and maize isn't going to be as fruitful when it's time to sow fallow.
The five agronomical traits of husk are controlled by the additive inheritance effect, so they could be improved by selection of parents in maize breeding.
I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". Dracula
Zambia, in the last three years, has not only been self-sufficient in food, but has managed to export maize to some neighbouring countries.
The donkey is the beast of burden, and windmills, originally used for grinding maize, abound.
Agriculture was based on systems of hillside terracing and included the potato, quinoa, and maize, and the guinea pig (for food), domestic dog, llama, and alpaca.
Arabidopsis is classified as a facultative long-day plant, whereas maize is originally a short-day one.
A- and B-type crystallite of potato starch come into being by taking the same method as maize starch.
Sexual characteristic of tight plant type maize and its comparatively high -yield cultivation technique.
Brewing materials such as maize, sorghum and finger millet were in abundance in the area but were now being ferried to a neighbouring country.
Nafta is also said to have put 250,000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work, their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest.
Rice, wheat, maize, and millet are the main crops grown in the country.
Maize and sugar beet or open ploughland. The Times Literary Supplement
These animals are rather pretty at Rio, but far from strong; they are fed on maize and capim, or Guinea grass, which was introduced of late years into Brazil, and thrives prodigiously: it is cultivated by planting the joints; the stem and leaves are as large as those of barley; it grows sometimes to the height of six or seven feet, and the flower is a large loose pannicle. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
(CIAT): focuses on maize, beans, and casava (manioc). Chapter 15
Or the fact that the country's national strategic reserve of maize was sold off wholesale at cut-rate prices two years ago in a series of dodgy transactions.
They are primarily subsistence farmers, growing maize and other staple crops. Times, Sunday Times

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