Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra has received a prestigious award from the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the evolution of maize. (Sasha Bakhter, UC Davis) Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, a professor in the ...

Originally published in 2006 by Academic Press. STRI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents I. Histories of maize: genetic, morphological, and microbotanical evidence.

Understanding the evolution and domestication of maize has been a holy grail for many researchers. As one of the most important crops worldwide and as a crop that appears very different from its wild ...

This figure from the paper shows the evolution of root types from teosinte to modern corn over the last 10 000 years, simulated using the modeling program OpenSimRoot, which was developed by ...

Janecke-Despres, V. and Smith, Bruce D. 2006. "Ancient DNA and the Integration of Archaeological and genetic Approaches to the Study of Maize Domestication." In Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary ...

After it was first domesticated from the wild teosinte grass in southern Mexico, maize — or corn — took both a high road and a coastal low road as it moved into what is now the U.S. Southwest, reports ...