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the eastern gamagrass and teosinte continue to flower while the hopi blue maize has pretty much died back...obviously the wild and weedy ancestor has a much longer season than the domesticate..planted ( or emerging, in the case of the perennial teosinte ) in march...while the maize was planted in may...and still going on after the descendant has shuffled off...human intervention in the lives of plants at work..a shorter season...bigger ears...more kernels...artificial selection for traits favorable to human needs and uses in action...all domesticate are genetically engineered...just not genetically spliced...kathy was adamant that genetic engineering was markedly different form trans-genetic gene splicing...she convinced me