Interestingly, heterosis did not seem to be predictable by inbred type (tropical, popcorn, sweet corn, stiff-stalk vs. non-stiff, etc).. Heterosis for yield was also not a predictor of SAM architecture.
The 1687 lines of the full inbred panel with phenotype data were grouped into one of five major maize subpopulations (stiff stalk, non-stiff stalk, tropical, popcorn, and sweet corn) based on pedigree information compiled by Romay et al. ([ 26]; http://genomebiology.com/content/supplementary/gb-2013-14-6-r55-s1.xlsx).
Lines were grouped into one of five major maize subpopulations (stiff stalk [SS], non-stiff stalk [NSS], tropical/subtropical [TS], popcorn [PC], and sweet corn [SC]) on the basis of the population structure analysis of the maize core diversity panel reported by Flint-Garcia et al. (2005) (http://panzea.org/db/gateway?file_id=pop_structure_xls).
These lines represent the diversity of maize: B73 (stiff stalk), B37 (stiff stalk), Ky21 (nonstiff stalk), Mo17 (nonstiff stalk), Oh7B (nonstiff stalk), Oh43 (nonstiff stalk), HP301 (popcorn), P39 (sweet corn), Ki11 (tropical), and Tx303 (mixed).
Charred kernels of grilled corn, burned black and stiff.
The livestock industry has also faced stiff competition for corn from the ethanol industry because of the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable fuel standard in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Sweetcorn panisse – thick chips hewn of a stiff, carb-a-licious corn batter that's alive with tarragon –come perched on a corn chowder with a wobbly confit duck egg yolk.
Piassava was selected instead of other renewable feedstock such as sugarcane bagasse, corn stover, and rice straw because of its stiff, resistant, and easily handled fibers that perfectly suits this characterization technique and three-dimensional analysis.
Thanks to a boom in biofuels, America's farmers are enjoying high prices, but their cotton and rice handouts face stiff legal threats at the WTO and their corn subsidies this week came under attack from Canada.
The frequency of disease resistance alleles were estimated at the seven significantly associated SNPs in the same five major maize subpopulations analyzed by Zila et al. [ 22] – stiff stalk temperate (SS), non-stiff stalk temperate (NSS), tropical/subtropical (TS), popcorn (PC), and sweet corn (SC) [ 26].
In this set of maize inbred lines, a NUMT with a strong hybridization signal was observed near the centromere of 9L in a total of four lines: B73 (stiff stalk), Oh7B (nonstiff stalk), HP301 (popcorn), and M825 (sweet corn).
