King Corn is a full member of the grass family. Outside of North America it is known as maize — more precisely, Zea mays.

E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), on irrigated maize, Zea mays L., yield was determined. Two applications of the insecticide chlorpyriphos (336 g[ai]/ha) applied directly to the whorl produced ...

This exhibit “focuses on the complex story of one of the world’s most important crop plants, maize (Zea mays), which is used by billions of people every day, for food, for animal feed ...

McClintock’s maize breeding experiments provided the ... Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays changed the way scientists think about genetic patterns of inheritance.

It would later become cemented as a name for the plant when a scientific name was settled on -- Zea mays. In Europe, maize (or a cognate thereof) is the word of choice, and you can trace this back ...