About 9,000 years ago, maize was first domesticated by Indigenous peoples in the Mexican lowlands. Roughly 5,000 years later, maize crossed with a different type from the Mexican highlands called ...

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.

Brazilian scientists have determined that ancient specimens of partially domesticated maize (Zea mays, also known as corn) originally from Peruaçu Valley in Minas Gerais state (Brazil) were the ...

The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world. While the evidence is clear that maize was ...

The process of evolution under domestication has been studied using phylogenetics, population genetics–genomics, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, gene expression assays, and archaeology. Here, ...

Researchers think that cultivating maize may have given rise to important ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica, like the Aztec. (Photo by Douglas J. Kennett via Courthouse News) New analysis of ...

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 ...

It’s well established that maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild Mexican grass. But the route of corn’s spread into what is now the southwestern United States has been more murky: ...

Earlier this year Douglas J. Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara professor of anthropology, demonstrated that maize, or corn, became a staple crop in the Americas 4,700 years ago. It turns out he was just ...

A new Cornell University study found that harmful mutations in sorghum landraces - early domesticated crops - decreased compared to their wild relatives through the course of domestication and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The history of corn, one of humankind's indispensable staple crops, is far more complicated that previously known, according to scientists who conducted a comprehensive genetic ...