Progenitor of Familiar Crop Plant (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Progenitor of Familiar Crop Plant

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The changes that took place as this plant was domesticated were so dramatic that its ancestry became a mystery for many decades. The plant is teosinte, now known to be the progenitor of maize (or corn, as it is called in the United States).

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Donald Knuth/Ethnobotanical gardens/<a target="_blank" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teosinte_-_Ethnobotanical_Garden_-_Oaxaca,_Mexico_-_7_July_2009.jpg">CC License</a>

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