Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting
and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the …

Independent domestication of sorghum, rice, and maize involved convergent selection for
large seeds, reduced disarticulation of the mature inflorescence, and daylength-insensitive …

As population structure can result in spurious associations, it has constrained the use of
association studies in human and plant genetics. Association mapping, however, holds great …

Domestication promotes rapid phenotypic evolution through artificial selection. We investigated
the genetic history by which the wild grass teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) was …

We measured sequence diversity in 21 loci distributed along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea
mays ssp. mays L.). For each locus, we sequenced a common sample of 25 individuals …

It has long been suspected that maize is the product of an historical tetraploid event. Several
observations support this possibility, including the fact that the maize genome contains …

The most critical step in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) domestication was the liberation of the
kernel from the hardened, protective casing that envelops the kernel in the maize progenitor, …

A compromise classification of the genus Zea, reflecting both phylogeny and practical needs,
recognizes six taxa, as follows: Section Luxuriantes: Zea perennis. Zea diploperennis, Zea …

The architecture of higher plants is established through the activity of lateral meristems—small
groups of stem cells formed during vegetative and reproductive development. Lateral …

Teosinte, the progenitor of maize, is restricted to tropical environments in Mexico and Central
America. The pre-Columbian spread of maize from its center of origin in tropical Southern …