Maize / m eɪ z / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.

Zea is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. The best-known species is Z. mays (variously called maize, corn, or Indian corn), one of the most important crops for human societies throughout much of the world. The four wild species are commonly known as teosintes and are native to Mesoamerica.

About Zea mays. Maize or Zea mays had the highest world-wide production of all grain crops in 2019. Although a food staple in many regions of the world, most is used for animal feed and ethanol fuel. Maize was domesticated from wild teosinte in Central America and its cultivation spread throughout the Americas by Pre-Columbian civilisations.

Zea mays, commonly known as corn, is a widely cultivated cereal grain in the USDA Plants Database.

Zea mays is an annual grasslike herb that is not native to California.

Today, botanists generally agree that a wild grass, teosinte (Zea mexicana) is the ancestor of modern corn, originating by human selection sometime between 13,000 and 6,000 BC.

Zea, genus of five species of large grasses of the family Poaceae, native to Mexico and Mesoamerica. The best-known species is corn, or maize (Zea mays mays), which was derived from one of the Mexican teosintes (likely Z. mays parviglumis) in pre-Columbian times more than 6,000 years ago.

Corn, scientifically known as Zea mays or maize, on average, possesses a 4% fat content, with corn oil being particularly rich in linoleic acid.

Maize is one of the Three Sisters, a traditional indigenous American planting technique that also uses squash (Cucurbita pepo) and beans (such as Phaseolus vulgaris) to encourage the growth of a larger, more nutritious crop yield. Maize is a cultivated grass …

Zea mays ssp. mays is a cultivated, annual grass that originated in Mexico. It is now widely planted around the world for its grain. Corn is often called maize, a Spanish corruption of one indigenous word for this plant. Anthropogenic (man-made …