Definitions

1. Teosinte is used as fodder, and can also be popped as popcorn. (Web site)

George Beadle

1. For George Beadle, however, the morphological differences between maize and teosinte were not so large as to require an extinct ancestor. (Web site)
2. However, George Beadle demonstrated that the kernels of teosinte are readily "popped" for human consumption, like modern popcorn.

Genus Zea

1. Teosinte belongs to the genus Zea, just as maize, but bears very small inflorescence, 5-10 hard cobs and a highly branched and spread out stem.

Domesticated Form

1. Corn is a domesticated form of teosinte, a wild grass found in isolated patches in the Mexican western Sierra Madre.
2. In his Teosinte Hypothesis, Beadle stated that maize is simply a domesticated form of teosinte (6). (Web site)

Modern Maize

1. The molecular revolution of the last 2 decades has provided compelling evidence that teosinte is the progenitor of modern maize. (Web site)

Mays Ssp

1. We sampled DNA sequence diversity in a panel of 28 diverse maize inbreds and 16 teosinte (Z. mays ssp.
2. What many consider to be the most puzzling teosinte is Z. mays ssp.

Zea Mays Ssp

1. The genus Zea includes wild taxa known collectively as teosinte (Zea mays ssp.

Studies

1. One early indication that maize is strongly allied with teosinte came from studies of both chromosome morphology and number. (Web site)
2. However, studies of the hybrids readily made by intercrossing teosinte and modern maize suggest that this objection is not well founded.

Regions

1. Outside of the swept regions, however, the genealogies reverted to neutral expectation, with all maize samples interspersed with teosinte samples.

Mexico

1. The term "teosinte" accompanied the first Guatemalan accession and seems not to have been used in Mexico.

Differences

1. However, John Doebley has genetic data that show which genes control the characters that cause the differences in the ears of teosinte and maize. (Web site)

Locally

1. It should also be noted that members of the genus Tripsacum are locally referred to as teosinte in some regions. (Web site)

Ancestor

1. Teosinte, in fact, is corn's likely ancestor.

Grains

1. The seed spike of teosinte consists of a single row of grains.

Species

1. There are five recognized species of teosinte: Zea diploperennis, Zea perennis, Zea luxurians, Zea nicaraguensis, and Zea mays. (Web site)
2. A comparison of proteins between teosinte and domestic maize reveals some similarities, and no species of wild maize has yet been found. (Web site)

Different Species

1. The different species of teosinte can be readily distinguished based on geographic origin and morphological differences. (Web site)

Plant Morphology

1. Maize and teosinte differ in many aspects of plant morphology and productivity. (Web site)

Domestications

1. It may have undergone two or more domestications either of a wild maize or of a teosinte. (Web site)

Domestication

1. It is a direct domestication of a Mexican annual teosinte, Zea mays ssp.

Corn

1. Grains of some of the earliest known forms of corn, such as teosinte, were hard, thick-shelled popping corns.
2. In her talk, Eubanks displayed archaeological specimens of corn alongside matching segregates from experimental crosses between teosinte and gamagrass. (Web site)
3. To make corn, teosinte was genetically engineered by generations of farmers in the Balsas River basin of southern Mexico between 5,000 and 13,000 years ago. (Web site)

Maize

1. All but the Nicaraguan species of teosinte may grow in or very near corn fields, providing opportunities for introgression between teosinte and maize. (Web site)
2. Plants that belong to two different species (not to mention two different genera) are not supposed to cross-hybridize, but maize and teosinte do. (Web site)
3. As would be expected, teosinte strongly resembles maize in many ways, notably their tassel (male inflorescence) morphology. (Web site)

Teosinte

1. Curiously some members of the related genus Tripsacum may be referred to locally as "teosinte" and may be a cycad.
2. The Balsas valley is one of the most likely sites for the domestication of corn (Zea mays) from its wild ancestor, teosinte (Zea mays ssp.
3. Discovered in 1896, teosinte looks so little like maize that it was assigned to a different genus: Teosinte was Euchleana mexicana; corn is Zea mays. (Web site)

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1. Agriculture > Crops > Grains > Maize
2. Corn
3. Science > Industry > Agriculture > Domestication
4. Curiously
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