Sentence examples for maize rather than from inspiring English sources

This was often via staple foods, particularly maize, rather than the leafy vegetables common in larger cities' market gardening.

For selecting the markers for MAS, sequences presented only in maize rather than in rice were identified by BLAST, and used for primer design using Primer Premier 5.0.

People do not rear enough chickens and goats, she says, and even if they do they tend to sell them to buy maize rather than eat them.

So when a shortage of white maize caused the price of a kilo of tortillas to double to eight pesos ($0.75 cents) or more in late December, that became the first big political headache for Felipe Calderón, Mexico's new president.Nearly all Mexican tortillas are made of home-grown white maize, rather than the yellow variety that is more common in the United States.

Maize meal or flour composition can also be driven by regional preferences, with some preferring whole ground maize rather than degerminated or partially degerminated maize products.

This may be one reason why we found aflatoxin exposure in urban areas, where persons would presumably be purchasing their maize rather than growing it themselves.

Survival, development, and the reproduction were not significantly reduced when F. candida fed on Bt maize pollen rather than on non-Bt maize pollen, but these parameters were significantly reduced when F. candida fed on non-Bt maize pollen containing the protease inhibitor E-64 at 75 μg/g pollen.

Bouffaud and co-workers reported a stratification of the maize rhizosphere microbiota reflecting the major genetic groups emerged during maize diversification, rather than their genetic distance (Bouffaud et al., 2012).

Blake concedes that the new findings do not support his idea and that the "primary interest" of the Xihuatoxtla people appears to have been the maize kernels rather than the stalks.

Furthermore, like most Egyptian family farmers, he favors the most water-hogging crops, like rice, maize and cotton, rather than lower-intensity fruits and vegetables.

Storing maize that was not completely dry and storing maize inside the home rather than in a granary were both independently associated with development of aflatoxicosis (OR = 3.5; 95% CI, 1.2 10.3; OR = 12.0; 95% CI, 1.5 95.7, respectively; Table 3).