Article
Speciation and domestication in maize and its wild relatives: evidence from the globulin-1 gene.
Genetics - 1 Oct 1998
Hilton H, Gaut B S
Abstract excerpt
The grass genus Zea contains the domesticate maize and several wild taxa indigenous to Central and South America. Here we study the genetic consequences of speciation and domestication in this group by sampling DNA sequences from four taxa-maize (Zea mays ssp. mays), its wild progenitor (Z. mays ssp. parviglumis), a more distant species within the genus (Z. luxurians), and a representative of the sister genus...
Topics
- Alcohol Dehydrogenase
- Edible Grain
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Variation
- Globulins
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Seeds
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
