University of California, Davis

National Academy of Sciences Elects UC Davis Maize Geneticist Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Ibarra, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at University of California, Davis, as a member. His election was announced April 28.Ross-Ibarra is one of 120 members and 25 international ...
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Histories of maize : multidisciplinary approaches to the prehistory, linguistics, biogeography, domestication, and evolution of maize / edited by, John E. Staller, Robert H ...

Originally published in 2006 by Academic Press. STRI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. I. Histories of maize: genetic, morphological, and microbotanical evidence.
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Ancient maize genomes reveal the early evolutionary history of commercially important flint and dent varieties

A study published today in Cell uncovers the deep evolutionary roots of flint and dent maize (also commonly known as “corn”), two foundational varieties central to modern maize breeding and ...
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evolution of maize root types (IMAGE)

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 ...