Origin matters: Lessons from the search for the wild ancestor of maize

Breeding Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 383-390

  Matsuoka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crop evolution; Diversity; Domestication; Evolutionary genetics; Introgression; Teosinte; Zea

Indexed keywords

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 29144511536     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.55.383     Document Type: Review

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