Varieties of maize found near Cuscu and Machu Pichu at Salineras de Maras on the Inca Sacred Valley in Peru, June 2007. Smithsonian scientists and collaborators are revising the history of one of the ...
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Corn root traits evolved with both human-driven and natural environmental changes, study shows
Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...
To grow the corn of tomorrow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory geneticists and plant biologists are digging up maize's ancient roots. Credit: Jon Cahn/Martienssen lab/CSHL To grow the corn of tomorrow, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Modern corn is a food staple, animal feed, biofuel, industrial sweetener, alcohol base, and even a source for bio-plastics. But what do we really ...
You might think you know which animals and plants are considered "domesticated" or “domestic” and which ones aren't—but a new definition has launched a big debate among scientists. Scientists are ...
This figure from the paper shows the evolution of root types from teosinte to modern corn over the last 10 000 years, simulated using the modeling program OpenSimRoot, which was developed by ...
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