A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1

Economic Botany

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 383-396

  Orozco–Ramírez, Quetzalcóatl ^a   Brush, Stephen B ^a   Grote, Mark N ^a   Perales, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

common gardens; crop diversity; environmental adaptation; Fusarium spp; Maize; Mexico; Oaxaca

Indexed keywords

FUSARIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84920429165     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: 18749364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-014-9285-4     Document Type: Article

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