The Past, Present, and Future of Maize Improvement: Domestication, Genomics, and Functional Genomic Routes toward Crop Enhancement
After being domesticated from teosinte, cultivated maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) spread worldwide and now is one of the most important staple crops. Due to its tremendous phenotypic and genotypic diversity, maize also becomes to be one of the most widely used model plant species for fundamental researc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Plant Communications |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590346219300100 |