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Unit 15 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 ) . The pert of the United States where most of he corn is grown ,including Ohio , Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Kansas , Iowa , and Nebraska , is known as the Corn Belt. 玉米，植物学，名称玉米是考虑到任何主要地区领先的谷类作物。在英国，玉米是指小麦;在苏格兰和爱尔兰，燕麦。所谓的玉米在美国的粮食是印度玉米或玉米（玉米）。美国的PERT大多数他的玉米种植，其中包括俄亥俄州，伊利诺伊州，印第安纳州，密苏里州，堪萨斯州，爱荷华州和内布拉斯加州，被称为玉米带。 The corn plant has a pithy nodded stalk supported by prop roots. The `staminate (male) flowers form the tassel at the top of the plant . The pistillate (female) flowers are the kernels on the cob , which is enclosed by a leafy husk beyond which extend threadlike styles and stigmas (the silk), which catch the pollen . The corn plant with its ornamental tassel and ears has been a motif of American art since prehistoric times . 玉米植株具有由根支柱支撑的精辟点了点头柄。在`雄花（男）花形成流苏在植株的顶部。该雌（女）花棒，它是由一个枝繁叶茂的壳超过此延长丝状风格和柱头（丝绸），这赶花粉包围的内核。其装饰流苏和耳朵的玉米作物，自史前时代一直是美国艺术的主题。 The plant is a grass that was domesticated and cultivated in the Americas long before Europeans reached the New World . It is so changed from the ancestral wild grass that its original form has not been identified with certainty , and it has been so adapted to cultivation that it cannot sustain itself without human cultivation . It is probably a complex hybrid of several related New World grasses , e , g . teosinte ( Euchlaena Mexicana) , a tropical American fodder plant in which the seeds are not united in a cob . The Native Americans had many varieties of corn, e , g . sweet corn , popcorn , and corn for corn meal . White , yellow , red , and blue corn were grown as distinct strains . 该工厂是被驯化和培育，在美洲的欧洲人长达到了新的世界前草。就这样，从它的原始形式尚未确定肯定祖野草改变，并且已经如此适于栽培，它不能维持本身无需人工栽培。它可能是几个相关的新世界草，E，G复杂的混合体。类蜀黍（Euchlaena墨西哥），其中种子一粒粒不团结热带美洲饲料厂。印第安人有许多品种的玉米，E，G。甜玉米，爆米花，玉米的玉米粉。白，黄，红，蓝玉米生长作为不同的菌株。 Developm