What plant genes tell us about crop domestication
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 15:42
in Biology & Nature
Anyone who has seen teosinte, the wild grass from which maize (corn) evolved, might be forgiven for assuming many genetic changes underlie the transformation of one plant to the other.
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