Species of grass cultivated as a food crop

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Maize root under the microscope

Agriculture: villagers (perhaps in Syria or Palestine) threshing corn by trampling it with oxen. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Beavis.

Farming: a milling machine for corn, driven by a water-wheel, three-quarter view. Engraving by Seal, c.1750.

Farming: a milling machine for corn, three-quarter view. Engraving by B. Cole, early eighteenth century, after R. Blackwell.

Woman carrying a basket of maize

Let good things get together : Kellogg's Corn Flakes are delicious with fruits / Kellogg Company of Great Britain.

Cheese-flavoured puffed corn snack

Two partridges feeding on corn with men trapping a dog in the background. Etching.

Indian agriculture and crops. Gouache drawing.

Newspaper illustrations of harvesters and Earl Spencer, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, accompanied by a ballad and article about the RAS Meeting. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1844.

Sifting cereals

Ricerche sugli effetti dell'alimentazione maidica : valore nutritivo della zeina, gliadina e ovoalbumina nei ratti albini / S. Baglioni, L. Luciani.

El maíz : sustento del pasado y presente en la cultura popular nacional / compilación, Sandra Luz García Martha, Mauricio García Sandoval.

Studies on pellagra. 1, The influence of the milling of maize on the chemical composition and the nutritive value of maize-meal / by Casimir Funk.

Maize and maize diets : a nutritional survey / Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

A discovery of the true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn; with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants / By Dr. Wolfius.

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Zea mays

Images from the collections

Images referencing Zea mays

Works from the collections

Ricerche sugli effetti dell'alimentazione maidica : valore nutritivo della zeina, gliadina e ovoalbumina nei ratti albini / S. Baglioni, L. Luciani.

El maíz : sustento del pasado y presente en la cultura popular nacional / compilación, Sandra Luz García Martha, Mauricio García Sandoval.

Studies on pellagra. 1, The influence of the milling of maize on the chemical composition and the nutritive value of maize-meal / by Casimir Funk.

Maize and maize diets : a nutritional survey / Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

A discovery of the true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn; with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants / By Dr. Wolfius.

Zea mays

Images from the collections

Images referencing Zea mays

Works from the collections

Ricerche sugli effetti dell'alimentazione maidica : valore nutritivo della zeina, gliadina e ovoalbumina nei ratti albini / S. Baglioni, L. Luciani.

El maíz : sustento del pasado y presente en la cultura popular nacional / compilación, Sandra Luz García Martha, Mauricio García Sandoval.

Studies on pellagra. 1, The influence of the milling of maize on the chemical composition and the nutritive value of maize-meal / by Casimir Funk.

Maize and maize diets : a nutritional survey / Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

A discovery of the true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn; with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants / By Dr. Wolfius.

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