This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

It changed how people related to food and to each other, turning some people into farmers and some plants into crops. Which, in the case of teosinte’s transformation into corn, was a major makeover.

To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the ...

And teosinte is barely recognizable as the ancestor of modern ... He either ignored or was unaware that making the trigger for regulation the process by which a new plant was created instead of the ...

To protect thousands of varieties of heirloom corn, Mexican leaders have amended the constitution to ban the planting of ...

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce ...

Even before the constitutional reform, it was mostly illegal to plant modified corn in Mexico ... started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte. It has been revered here ever since ...