Maiz Reventador
1944; Missouri Botanical Garden; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2394365
ISSN2162-4372
Autores ResumoA remarkable kind of maize discovered in western Mexico by Dr. Isabel Kelly seems not to be known to maize experts, nor to have received any published mention, even of the most casual sort.This is certainly owing in part to the fact that with maize, as with other matters, western Mexico tends to be ignored.It may also reflect the fact that even in most of the area where we have studied this variety, a stranger interested in maize might travel for some time without meeting it in the market-place, the granary, or growing in the field.In most of that area this maize is known as ^'niaiz reventador^^ (literally ''exploder corn", i.e. popcorn), so we shall refer to it by that name though in Jiquilpan and elsewhere in Michoacan it is known (if at all) as ^^matz rosquera^\ and this name is current in parts of Jalisco as well.In the region around Purificacion, Jalisco, the name '^reventador'' is used, though ^'pipittUo'^ is also employed, perhaps due to local hybridization with an imported variety of that name (see below).While maiz reveiitador is commonly used as a popcorn it is a completely different thing from the narrow-grained rice popcorns of central Mexico and bears only a general resemblance to the pearl popcorns of commerce.Maiz reventador is small-grained, small-cobbed, flinty and undented (see fig. 1, table i, and pis.15 and 16).It is 12-16-rowed, with grains (>-7 mm.wide and about as high as they are wide.It is characteristically pure white, though red pericarp is well established in some locahties.While yellow grains or occasionally all yellow ears are seen, all those which we have submitted to progeny tests showed obvious signs of having been crossed with other kinds of Much of the work reported in this paper was carried out while the author was a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation.Facilities for progeny tests were made available by the California Institute of Technology and by the Blandy Experimental Farm of the University of Virginia.Grateful acknowledgment is made to these institutions, to Prof. Carl Sauer, who provided the material for the initial study
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