Maize

...of years of evolution. For instance, the strain B73, the agriculturally important and commonly studied variety decoded by the maize genome project, contains 2.3 billion bases, the chemical units that make up DNA. But the genome of a strain...

In this article: PLoS Genetics, Stanford University, Chimpanzee, Washington University School of Medicine, Iowa State University, Barbara McClintock, and National Science Foundation

...era since the plant's domestication, some 10,000 years ago. Maize is known to have evolved from a common grass found in Mexico and Central America called teosinte. It was human intervention -- breeding -- that led to full...

In this article: USDA, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States, Iowa State University, and Chimpanzee

...spheres," the article says in its introduction. "In contrast to the United States and Europe, commercial seed sources account for only one-fourth of the maize seed planted in Mexico. Furthermore, Mexican maize is mostly grown by...

In this article: Mexico, Greenpeace, United States, Mexico City, Angel of Independence, Soybean, and Papaya

...have less than five hectares (12.5 acres) of land, according to government figures. As the GM debate rages on, much of Mexico's treasured maize diversity is for now protected in a giant seed bank in central Mexico, which keeps tiny...

In this article: Mexico, Greenpeace, United States, Cattle, Climate change, and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

... discussion papers examining effects of genetically modified corn on Mexican maize ... CEC to examine genetic diversity of traditional maize varieties in Mexico ...

While maize production in Mexico has remained relatively constant at around 18 million tons per ... year Mexico imports over 5 million tons of maize from the ...

Mexico City has announced that it will ... Maize is Mexico's staple food. ... The purchase and distribution of transgenic maize in Mexico City is now banned. ...

México is the original home of maize (corn) and over thousands of years around ... If Mexico allows GE maize to be cultivated then the natural genetic diversity of ...

1994, traditional maize farmers in Mexico have faced difficult economic conditions. ... Mexico is the world's center of origin for ... Mexico's maize diversity, ...