image: Varieties of the Avati ete'i, the sacred Guaranis' maize, April 2017 during the seed exchange fair, in La Paloma, State of Rocha, Uruguay. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 Dec. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Kistler at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and colleagues was titled, "Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America." view more
Credit: [Credit: Natália Carolina de Almeida Silva]