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A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Apr 2002
Matsuoka Yoshihiro, Vigouroux Yves, Goodman Major M, Sanchez G Jesus, Buckler Edward, Doebley John
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There exists extraordinary morphological and genetic diversity among the maize landraces that have been developed by pre-Columbian cultivators. To explain this high level of diversity in maize, several authors have proposed that maize landraces were the products of multiple independent domestications from their wild relative (teosinte). We present phylogenetic analyses based on 264 individual plants, each...
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