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  2. List of sweetcorn varieties - Wikipedia

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    The oldest type of sweet corn contains more sugar and less starch than field corn intended for livestock. Tends to be heartier in respect to planting depth, germination and growth than other types. Begins conversion of sugar to starch after peak maturity or harvest, and as such is best eaten immediately after harvest.

  3. Cereal growth staging scales - Wikipedia

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    Growth stage Code Description 0: Germination 00: Dry seed (caryopsis) 01: Beginning of seed imbibition 03: Seed imbibition complete 05: Radicle emerged from caryopsis

  4. Waxy corn - Wikipedia

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    Waxy corn or glutinous corn is a type of field corn characterized by its sticky texture ... He was able to grow 53 plants to maturity and made a thorough ...

  5. Maize - Wikipedia

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    Sweet corn, harvested earlier than maize grown for grain, grows to maturity in a period of from 60 to 100 days according to variety. An extended sweet corn harvest, picked at the milk stage, can be arranged either by planting a selection of varieties which ripen earlier and later, or by planting different areas at fortnightly intervals. [74]

  6. Sweet corn - Wikipedia

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    Sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa), [1] also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn

  7. Field corn - Wikipedia

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    Field corn is a North American term for maize (Zea mays) grown for livestock fodder (silage and meal), ethanol, cereal, and processed food products.The principal field corn varieties are dent corn, flint corn, flour corn (also known as soft corn) which includes blue corn (Zea mays amylacea), [1] and waxy corn.

  8. BBCH-scale - Wikipedia

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    The BBCH-scale is used to identify the phenological development stages of plants. [1] BBCH-scales have been developed for a range of crop species where similar growth stages of each plant are given the same code.

  9. Baby corn - Wikipedia

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    Baby corn (also known as young corn, cornlettes, child corn or baby sweetcorn) is a cereal grain taken from corn (maize) harvested early while the stalks are still small and immature. It typically is eaten whole—including the cob , which is otherwise too tough for human consumption in mature corn—in raw, pickled, and cooked forms.