Corn and Pod Corn
Com has long been one of the greatest of botanical riddles. Nobody has known where it came from. Wild forms of most other grains- are known, but corn has remained a botanical orphan. Not
only does it lack any identified ancestors, but it has only two cousins in the Western Hemisphere. Teosinte, which is a Mexican fodder plant, and a wild grass named Tripsacum.
Now two Texas scientists have suggested that the ancestor of corn is a primitive type of grain known as pod corn, in which each gram is covered with a tiny individual husk of its own.
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Southland Times, Issue 23740, 11 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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103Corn and Pod Corn Southland Times, Issue 23740, 11 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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