Sentence examples for maize that was from inspiring English sources

His unfenced cotton fields were dotted with mahogany saplings and surrounded by maize that was higher than a man.

Some concluded that the crop plant arose through the domestication by early agriculturalists of a wild maize that was now extinct, or at least undiscovered.

The results from a subchronic feeding study conducted in Sprague Dawley rats fed with diets containing grain from 4114 (OECD unique identifier: DP-ØØ4114-3) maize that was untreated (4114) or sprayed in field with glufosinate ammonium (4114GLU) in a design similar to previous studies are reported.

In the present study, three commercial strains of P. ostreatus (N001, Pearl and Blue) were grown on maize that was contaminated at three concentrations (25, 250 and 2500 ng g−1) of AFB1 in mesocosms using standard mushroom cultivation techniques.

However, breakdown products from AFB1-contaminated maize that was treated with the N001 and Blue strains did show significant reversion in the first run of a duplicated acid reversion assay.

Maize was revered to such an extent that women blew on maize before putting it into the cooking pot so that it would not fear the fire, and any maize that was dropped on the ground was picked up rather than being wasted.

It is a form of maize that is resistant to a devastating virus.

The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.

Michele Bonomo, head of Legambiente's Campagnia regional office, says: "Toxins have already been found in milk and in some maize that is fed to animals".

Jennifer Thompson and Edward Rybicki, of the University of Cape Town, have developed a variety of maize that is resistant to maize-streak virus, another insect-borne disease (the culprits here are leaf-hoppers).

Much of the maize that is produced in Guatemala is planted, harvested and handled via subsistence-oriented agricultural practices, strongly connected to Mayan heritage.