Urgent notice to all maize researchers: Disappearance and extinction of the last wild teosinte population is more than half completed. A modest proposal for teosinte evolution and conservation in situ: The Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico

Maydica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-58

  Wilkes, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Balsas teosinte; in situ conservation; Introgressive hybridization; Teosinte

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS; ZEA MAYS SUBSP. PARVIGLUMIS;

EID: 34247537191     PISSN: 00256153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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