Celebrating the Diversity of Maize

Celebrating the Diversity of Maize
Discover the many varieties and uses of corn in Latin America.
Maize Under the Microscope
There are hundreds of varieties of corn. Also known as maize, ixi’im (Maya), centli (Náhuatl), or sara (Quechua), corn was domesticated from a grass called teosinte by Indigenous people in Mexico thousands of years ago.