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Genetic diversity and evolution of reduced sulfur storage during domestication of maize.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 2018
Li Xinxin, Han Yang, Yan Yan, Messing Joachim, Xu Jian-Hong
Abstract excerpt
The domestication of maize has spanned a period of over 9000 years, during which time its wild relative teosinte underwent natural and artificial selection. We hypothesize that environmental conditions could have played a major role in this process. One factor of environmental variation is soil composition, which includes sulfur availability. Sulfur is reduced during photosynthesis and is used to synthesize...
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