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maize
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maize: see corn corn, in botany. The name corn is given to the leading cereal crop of any major region. In England corn means wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats. The grain called corn in the United States is Indian corn or maize (Zea mays).
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As reported in the December 19, 2003 issue of Science magazine, the Maize Genomics Consortium, led by scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has evaluated and validated a gene-enrichment strategy for genome sequencing resulting in a six-fold reduction of the effective size of the Zea mays (maize or corn) genome while creating a four-fold increase in the gene identification rate when compared to standard whole-genome sequencing methods.
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