hybrid corn
Engineered agricultural grain
Hybrid corn is corn bred from two genetically different parent lines to produce offspring with desirable traits—higher yield, disease resistance, or uniformity.
The technique revolutionized American agriculture in the early twentieth century.
Unlike traditional varieties, hybrid corn doesn't breed true, so farmers must buy new seed each season rather than saving their own.
- crossbreedingMating unlike organisms
- huskDry seed covering
- stalkPlant's vertical support
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- drought toleranceCapacity to withstand water scarcity
alleles · cob · detasseling · pollination · growing season · plant breeding · double-cross · monoculture · maize · heterosis · silk · phenotypes · GMO · genetic variation · bushels · seed · drought-resistant · crop
- corncornmeal, hominy, husk, masa, grits
- grain farmingwheat, wheat field, wheat fields, wheat farming, rice
- hybridscrossbred, mule, tigon, liger, mutt
- hybrid producepluot, tangelo, broccolini, loganberry, boysenberry
- hybridizationhybridization, crossbreeding, interbreeding, cross-pollination, heterosis
- MidwestIndiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota