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Ustilago maydis populations tracked maize through domestication and cultivation in the Americas.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 May 2008
Munkacsi Andrew B, Stoxen Sam, May Georgiana
Abstract excerpt
The domestication of crops and the development of agricultural societies not only brought about major changes in human interactions with the environment but also in plants' interactions with the diseases that challenge them. We evaluated the impact of the domestication of maize from teosinte and the widespread cultivation of maize on the historical demography of Ustilago maydis, a fungal pathogen of maize. To...
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