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  2. List of sweetcorn varieties - Wikipedia

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    Varieties of the augmented supersweet type combine multiple gene types on top of sh2. These varieties have 100% of the kernels containing the sh2 gene, but also have se and su genes in some portion of the kernels. The augmented supersweet varieties have tender kernels like the se varieties. Therefore, mechanical picking is not recommended.

  3. Northrup-King - Wikipedia

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    This made Northrup, King and Co. one of the first seed companies to use branding as a marketing technique. [3] Corn hybrids became a major part of the company's business in the 1930s. In 1938, Northrup, King and Co. partnered with the University of Minnesota to test the company's hybrid corn varieties at Femco Farms in the Red River Valley.

  4. Dent corn - Wikipedia

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    Reid's Yellow Dent is a variety developed by central Illinois farmer James L. Reid. Reid and his father, Robert Reid, moved from Brown County, Ohio, to Tazewell County, Illinois, in 1846 bringing with them a red corn variety known as "Johnny Hopkins", and crossed it with varieties of flint corn and flour corn. [1] Most of today's hybrid corn ...

  5. Pioneer Hi Bred International - Wikipedia

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    1926 - Hi-Bred Corn Company is founded in Des Moines, Iowa, with $7,000 in capital. [7] 1931 - Roswell Garst agrees to produce/distribute seed. The following year Garst partners with Charles Thomas to form the Garst and Thomas Seed Corn Company. 1935 - "Pioneer" was added to the name of the company to distinguish it from other hybrid corn ...

  6. Holden Foundation Seeds - Wikipedia

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    Foundation corn is the parent seed from which hybrids are made. Established in 1937, in Williamsburg, Iowa by Roland Holden, Holden was the largest independent producer of foundation seed in America before being acquired by Monsanto Company in 1997. [1] [2] Monsanto was subsequently acquired by Bayer in 2018, and Holden is now part of Bayer ...

  7. List of plant hybrids - Wikipedia

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    An ornamental lily hybrid known as Lilium 'Citronella' [1] This is a list of plant hybrids created intentionally or by chance and exploited commercially in agriculture or horticulture. The hybridization event mechanism is documented where known, along with the authorities who described it.

  8. Hybrid seed - Wikipedia

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    Hybrid seeds planted by the farmer produce similar plants, but the seeds of the next generation from those hybrids will not consistently have the desired characteristics because of genetic assortment. It is therefore rarely desirable to save the seeds from hybrid plants to start the next crop. [4]

  9. High-yielding variety - Wikipedia

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    The Green Revolution in the late 1960s (or generally, in the second half of the 20th century) [1] introduced farmers to cultivation of food crops using HYV seeds, although their ancestral roots may be older. [2] Compared to the traditional seeds, HYV seeds promise to produce much greater amounts of grain on a single plant.

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