O Love! what hours were thine and mine In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm of orange-blossom Of olive aloe and maize and vine!
Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.
As maize became important for human food worldwide modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.