Maize

descended from:

• Teosinte

  Sources: A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping, Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

Appears in4 items

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  Genetics: Mendel to CRISPR1 item
  • 
    McClintock’s jumping genesJun 1950
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  The First Farmers3 items
  • Mesoamerica: squash and maizec. 10.5 ka
  • Maize from teosintec. 6,752 BCE
  • The oldest maize cobsc. 4,302 BCE

Mentioned in1 item

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  The First Farmers1 item
  • Eastern North America: seed cropsc. 3,052 BCE

Sources

1. ArticleStarch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico
2. ArticleA single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping