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Conservation and diversity of seed associated endophytes in Zea across boundaries of evolution, ethnography and ecology.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Johnston-Monje David, Raizada Manish N
Abstract excerpt
Endophytes are non-pathogenic microbes living inside plants. We asked whether endophytic species were conserved in the agriculturally important plant genus Zea as it became domesticated from its wild ancestors (teosinte) to modern maize (corn) and moved from Mexico to Canada. Kernels from populations of four different teosintes and 10 different maize varieties were screened for endophytic bacteria by culturing,...
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