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Genetic, evolutionary and plant breeding insights from the domestication of maize

The natural history of maize began nine thousand years ago when Mexican farmers started to collect the seeds of the wild grass, teosinte. Invaluable as a food source, maize permeated Mexican culture and religion. Its domestication eventually led to its adoption as a model organism, aided in large pa...

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Autores principales: Hake, Sarah, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4373674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25807085
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05861