The origins of maize were the topic of vigorous debate for nearly a century, but neither the
current genetic model nor earlier archaeological models account for the totality of available …

Maize was domesticated at least 8700 years ago in the highlands of Mexico. Genome-wide
studies have greatly contributed to shed light into the diffusion of maize through the …

Abstract Grindstones from Eva 2 and St. John, two of the earliest sites in northeastern South
America and the southern Caribbean respectively, were subjected to starch grain analysis …

Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico
beginning around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by …

The evolutionary significance of hybridization and subsequent introgression has long been
appreciated, but evaluation of the genome-wide effects of these phenomena has only …

Because of the economic importance of maize and its scientific importance as a model
system for studies of domestication, its evolutionary history is of general interest. We …

To investigate the genetic basis of maize adaptation to temperate climate, collections of 375
inbred lines and 275 landraces, representative of American and European diversity, were …

Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) domestication began in southwestern Mexico∼ 9,000 calendar
years before present (cal. BP) and humans dispersed this important grain to South America …

A phylogenetic analysis was conducted on 34 alleles of 2.5 kb sized stearoyl-ACP
desaturase II (sad2), obtained from 30 accessions of cultivated and pale flax (Linum spp.), to …

Ancient DNA has received much attention since the mid‐1980s, when the first sequence of
an extinct animal species was recovered from a museum specimen. Since then, the majority …