3 pack x 100 Waxy Corn Seeds - Non-GMO Sticky Sweet Corn for Easy Growing

Plant Sweet Delights: Waxy Corn Seeds - Perfect for Growing Sticky, Glutinous Sweet Corn Waxy corn or glutinous corn is a type of field corn characterized by its sticky texture when cooked as a result of larger amounts of amylopectin. The corn was first described from a specimen from China in 1909. As this plant showed many peculiar traits, the American breeders long used it as a genetic marker to tag the existence of hidden genes in other maize breeding programs.  In 1922 a researcher found that the endosperm of waxy maize contained only amylopectin and no amylose starch molecule in opposition to normal dent corn varieties that contain both. Until World War II, the main source of starch in the United States was tapioca, but when Japan severed the supply lines of the U.S., they forced processors to turn to waxy maize[citation needed]. Amylopectin or waxy starch is now used mainly in food products, but also in the textile, adhesive, corrugating and paper indust