A mixed origin made maize successful (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

A mixed origin made maize successful

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Maize (corn) is one of the world's most important staple crops and has great cultural significance for indigenous peoples in the Americas. New work by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra at UC Davis and international colleagues shows how maize was domesticated from two wild varieties.

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Sasha Bakhter, UC Davis

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