Directory of Zea Resources

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Zea L. is a genus of one or very few species from tropical America. It has given rise to the cereal known as corn or Indian corn in north America, and as maize in other parts of the world.

Resources in This Category

• Zea mays (Maize, Corn)

  http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/plants/poaceae/zea_mays.htm
  Provides information on the history of domestication of this important food plant.

• Zea mays: Sweet Corn

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/knudsen_ashl/
  Research project by Ashey Knudsen on this cultivated grass including its classification, habitat, nutrition and reproduction.

• Zea mexicana

  http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/198501220.html
  Information on the stock of teosinte grown at Connecticut University.

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