Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face
of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental …

Land use cover change (LUCC) has a crucial role in global environmental change,
impacting both ecosystem services and biodiversity. Evaluating the trends and possible …

Understanding the effects of climate change on maize yield in Mexico is important from both
a national and international perspective. Maize is Mexico's staple food crop, thus …

Maize evolution under domestication is a process that continues today. Case studies
suggest that Mexican smallholder family farmers, known as campesinos, contribute …

Scientific research has suggested that maize spread from Mexico and arrived in lowland
South America in a state of partial domestication. However, archaeological samples with …

Milpas are rain-fed agroecosystems involving domesticated, semi-domesticated and
tolerated plant species that combine maize with a large variety of other crop, tree or shrub …

Simple Summary In Mexico, smallholder farmers produce locally adapted maize varieties,
generally called landraces, for food. They participate in the conservation of landraces by …

The present dataset comprises 36,931 SNPs genotyped in 46 maize landraces native to
Mexico as well as the teosinte subspecies Zea maiz ssp. parviglumis and ssp. mexicana …

ABSTRACT In Mexico, the Center of origin and diversity of maize, a daily per capita average
of 0.5 kg of maize-based foods are consumed. Approximately 10 million tons of maize is …