HORT 15- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
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Field corn and the sweet corn - difference is the mutant gene, non gmo. Sweet corn is only grown in market gardens. You want to isolate them because you do not want cross pollination. 90% of all the corn grown in eld corn / dent corn - corn meal, corn our. Popcorn - a type of dent corn, hard exterior or kernel, more often round. Gmo"s are in the eld corn varieties they are not in the sweet corn industries. The quality of the crop this year is in uenced by source of pollen for sure will impact next years crop if seeds are saved. Xenia effect - the immediate in uence of pollen from one strain of a plant upon the endosperm of another strain, maize. Monoecious plant - separate male and female owers on plant. Double fertilization - fertilization of embryo, and fertilization of endosperm.
