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Toluca8786 was the most popular maize accession chosen by farmers at the recent CIMMYT field day. It is an open-pollinated variety, still showing diversity in grain color. (photo from Denise Costich, CIMMYT)

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Maize diversity in the NY Times: Oaxaca's Native Maize Embraced by Top Chefs in the US and Europe

 

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Past publications:

Gerke JP, Edwards JW, Guill KE, Ross-Ibarra J, McMullen M (2015) The genomic impacts of drift and seletionc for hybrid performance in maize. Genetics.  doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.182410

 

Eli Rodgers-Melnick et al. Recombination in diverse maize is stable, predictable, and associated with genetic load

PNAS
 

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Panzea was funded by the National Science Foundation, Plant Genome Research Project, award #1238014: “The Biology of Rare Alleles in Maize and Its Wild Relatives”; the research groups on this project were also supported by the USDA-ARS, their home institutions, and/or various other sources of funding.

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