Word: corns
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Bazzaz has also found that some types of plants, including corn and sugar cane, stop growing faster earlier than weeds and crops such as wheat and soybeans...
Consequently, higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere mean that corn, which is surrounded by a denser growth of weeds, requires more herbicides. Wheat, however, which is more nitrogen-deficient and slightly less healthy, requires higher doses of fertilizer...
Lancaster corn soup...
...turn to the geological record. Pollen preserved in layers of mud, for example, enabled a University of Arizona scientist to determine that a thousand years ago, the Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River Preserve near Phoenix was covered by a marshy grassland unique to the Southwest. But the presence of corn pollen indicated that 500 years ago, Native Americans had farmed the site. "So do we restore this area to the way it was before the Native Americans disturbed it?" wonders the Nature Conservancy's Richter. "If it's not natural now, then when...
...Americas sparked in European minds. And the New World fed Europe more than literary tropes, intellectual excitement and a whiff of the exotic. It fed Europe . . . food, stuff that native Americans had been cultivating for thousands of years and that Europeans had never heard of: peppers, paprika, potatoes, corn, tomatoes...