Wheat, maize and sugar beet are planted in rotation.

小麦、玉米和甜菜是轮流种植的。

Sugarcane needs less land than maize.

甘蔗比玉米需要更少的土地。

We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.

我们可以在这块地上种高粱或玉米。

The maize and millet were just putting forth ears.

玉米和谷子正在抽穗。

Let's start with North American corn or maize, as it's often called.

让我们从人们常说的北美的玉米开始吧。

The use of the modified maize inadvertently imperils monarch butterflies.

使用转基因玉米无意中危及黑脉金斑蝶。

Maize contains the vitamin niacin, but not in a form the body can absorb.

玉米中含有维生素烟酸，但不以人体可吸收的形式存在。

In some African markets, maize and wheat prices have risen by 30% this year.

今年，在一些非洲市场上，玉米和小麦的价格上涨了30%。

Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.

然而，玉米、高粱和小麦的产量在1983年至1985年间翻了一番。

For both wheat and maize, the results, published this week by Science, were negative.

关于小麦和玉米的研究发表在本周的《科学》杂志上，结果是否定的。

By the time of Columbus, maize had already become the staff of life in the New World.

在哥伦布时期，玉米已成为美洲大陆的主食。

His family had a 40-hectare farm on which they grew wheat, maize and hay and raised pigs and cattle.

他家有一个40公顷的农场，种植小麦、玉米和干草，还养猪和牛。

Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill.

九千年前，玉米芯是很硬的，生吃的话你会病得很惨。

Maize pollen is dispersed by the wind and often blows onto milkweed plants that grow near maize fields.

玉米花粉被风吹散，经常吹到生长在玉米田附近的乳草属植物上。

The warmer temperatures mean that some of them can now grow peaches and maize where previously they could not.

气温升高意味着一些村民能种植桃子和玉米这些从前不能种植的作物了。

This is an interesting quote about maize from this particular book called Prehistoric Food Production in North America.

这是一句关于玉米的有趣引用，来自于《史前北美食物生产》。

The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough.

玛雅人认为他们祖先基本上是从玉米进化而来的，由黄玉米与白玉米面团做成的。

Pellagra was virtually unknown at that time in the Americas, however, even among people who subsisted primarily on maize.

然而，糙皮病在当时的美洲几乎还不为人所知，甚至在主要以玉米为生的人之间也是如此。

When, in experiments, these caterpillars were fed milkweed leaves dusted with pollen from modified maize plants, they died.

在实验中，这些毛毛虫被喂食沾有转基因玉米花粉的马利筋叶子，然后它们死亡了。

Europeans were familiar with lots of different spices, most important being pepper, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, maize and nutmeg.

欧洲人熟悉许多不同的香料，最重要的是胡椒、丁香、生姜、肉桂、玉米和肉豆蔻。

Even the major food crops of the poor—wheat, rice, white maize, potato, and cassava—are also being neglected, according to SOFA 2004.

根据《2004年粮农状况》，即使穷人的主要粮食作物——小麦、稻米、白玉米、马铃薯和木薯——亦受到忽视。

In certain locations things were dominated by certain cereals; rice in Asia, wheat in Europe, sorghum and millet in Africa, and maize in the New World.

不同的地方有不同的主食，比如亚洲主食米饭，欧洲主食小麦，非洲主食高粱和小米，美洲主食玉米。

Certain genetically modified strains of maize produce a natural insecticide that protects against maize-eating insects.

某些转基因玉米品种可以生产一种天然杀虫剂，保护玉米免受以玉米为食的昆虫的侵害。

It is also responsible for the relative resistance of immature maize to the European corn borer (Crambidae).

它还是未成熟玉米对欧洲玉米螟（草螟科）产生相对抗性的原因。

Or take the example of maize seed.

或者用玉米种子举例。

Corn (maize) prices have also surged.

同时玉米价格也在澎湃上扬。

In Kenya the price of maize has tripled.

在肯尼亚，玉米的价格已经翻了三倍。

And sugarcane needs less land than maize.

而且甘蔗比玉米的占地少。

In Europe it is illegal to plant such maize.

在欧洲，这种玉米种植方是非法的。

The price of maize-meal has more than doubled since 2007.

自从2007年以来，玉米食的价格翻了一倍还有多。