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 …

Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) diverged from one of its wild relatives, the teosinte Zea mays
ssp. parviglumis, in the lowlands of southwest Mexico~ 9000 years ago. Following this …

The historical meeting between originally American people, European colonizers, and
slaved peoples from Africa in the biome Pampa in South Brazil and Uruguay involved a …

Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) landraces are traditional American crops with high genetic
variability that conform a source of original alleles for conventional maize breeding. Northern …

Introduction Agrobiodiversity and local knowledge are fundamental components in the
domestication and structuring of rural landscapes. In a context of threats to agroecosystems …

Abstract Background and Aims The lowlands of South America appear to be remarkably
important in the evolutionary history of maize, due to new evidence that suggests that maize …

Popcorn is a kind of snack food and has a breeding history of nearly 40 years in China,
however, there are relatively few studies on its genetic diversity. Therefore, we present a …

Microcenters of diversity of crop plants are small geographic areas, while regions of diversity
are large and relatively diffuse areas that conserve high or moderate genetic diversity …

Sweet corn (Zea mays L.) has high levels of sugar in the endosperm, being used for self-
consumption by families in the far west of the state of Santa Catarina (FWSC), southern …

Popcorn (Zea mays) is an important crop in the United States; however, genetic analyses of
popcorn are limited and tend to utilize relatively few markers that cannot capture the total …