Through his contacts, Mr. Mishaan said, he had been able to get top-of-the-line wool sisal carpet for 25 percent off its regular price, and had found enough large scraps of luxury mohair at an upholsterer to redo the dining chairs and the armchair in the new gray-and-maize color scheme.
Biochemical characterization of maize endosperm color mutants and transposon tagging helped to identify some maize-specific homologs of carotenoid pathway genes cloned in bacteria and model plant species.
Enhanced anthocyanin production was observed in transgenic tobacco and petunia plants when a maize leaf color transcription factor was constitutively expressed by a 35S promoter.
This program uses darker orange endosperm color maize grain with elevated provitamin A carotenoids to distinguish maize varieties having elevated provitamin A carotenoids from white grain and yellow feed grain.
The Michigan Wolverines could also be filed under the Fierce and Forgettable Creatures category, but their logo is essentially just the letter "M" in a "maize and blue" color scheme (which, to the rest of the country, is simply yellow and blue).
During the 2009 World Series of Poker's November Nine, dozens of Cada's fans wore T-shirts with Michigan Wolverines team colors (maize and blue) with the words, "PokerStars Michigan Joe Cada 'The Kid'" emblazoned across the front and Michigan baseball caps with "The Kid" on the back.
Different species are denoted with different colors (maize in black, sorghum in green, rice in blue and Arabidopsis in red).
Even though the variation in intensity of yellow color in maize endosperm is attributable to the variations in carotenoid content and profile, selection for high provitamin A maize based on kernel color is not reliable due to its poor correlations with provitamin A content [ 12, 25].
Phenotypic variation for grain carotenoid content and composition was assessed in an association panel of 201 maize inbreds with kernel color ranging from light yellow to dark orange.
Darker orange color in maize grain is associated with higher total carotenoids but does not necessarily result in higher provitamin A concentrations (Harjes et al. 2008; Burt et al. 2011).
