Corn : : Its Origin, Evolution and Improvement / / Paul C. Mangelsdorf.
Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated new book, Paul Mangelsdorf, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the corn plant, summarizes the work of a lifetime devoted to unraveling the enigma of corn. This unique grain--it h...
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Mangelsdorf, Paul C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Corn : Its Origin, Evolution and Improvement / Paul C. Mangelsdorf. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1974 1 online resource (262 p.) : 114 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 maps, 18 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Special Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Modern Corn Plant -- 2. Theories on the Origin of Maize -- 3. Teosinte, the Closest Relative of Maize -- 4. The Genetic Nature of Teosinte -- 5. Tripsacum, a More Distant Relative of Corn -- 6. Corn’s Old World Relatives -- 7. Pod Corn, the Ancestral Form -- 8. The Nature of the Pod-Corn Locus -- 9. Races of Maize -- 10. The Concept of Lineages -- 11 The Role of Hybridization in Corn’s Evolution -- 12. Mutations -- 13. Genetic Drift and Selection -- 14. Archaeological Evidence of Corn’s Evolution -- 15. Prehistoric Wild Corn and Fossil Pollen -- 16. Corn in Prehistoric Art -- 17. Corn’s Spread to the Old World -- 18. The Prehistoric and Modern Improvement of Maize -- 19. The Nature of Heterosis -- 20. Modern Breeding Techniques -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated new book, Paul Mangelsdorf, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the corn plant, summarizes the work of a lifetime devoted to unraveling the enigma of corn. This unique grain--it has no close counterpart elsewhere in the plant kingdom--exists only in association with man, and it survives only as a result of his intervention. Thus, the story of corn is in many ways a story about people. Combining the skills of scientist and storyteller, Professor Mangelsdorf in his search for the origin of corn takes the reader to archaeological digs in once-inhabited caves in Mexico and the United States Southwest, to the discovery of fossil pollen in drill cores taken deep below Mexico City, and to experimental fields where the great diversity of corn is revealed and where the plant is hybridized with its relatives teosinte and Tripsacum. Drawing upon the evidence from botany, genetics, cytology, archaeology, and history, the author seeks to evaluate various hypotheses on the origin of corn. He concludes that the ancestor of cultivated corn was a wild form of pod corn; that corn may have been domesticated more than once in both Mexico and South America from different geographical races of wild corn; and that hybridizations between corn and its various relatives have resulted in explosive evolution leading to a diversity of varieties and forms unmatched in any other crop plant. This is a book about corn, but it is a book for biologists, agronomists, anthropologists, and historians, and for the interested layman who would like to know something about the grain which, "transformed, as three fourths of it is, into meat, milk, eggs, and other animal products, is our basic food plant, as it was of the people who preceded us in this hemisphere." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Englische Literatur Amerikas. Poetry. Proza (teksten). Corn. General Botany. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Science eBook Package 9783110353549 ZDB-23-HSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674421691 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674421707 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674421707 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674421707/original |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Special Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Modern Corn Plant -- 2. Theories on the Origin of Maize -- 3. Teosinte, the Closest Relative of Maize -- 4. The Genetic Nature of Teosinte -- 5. Tripsacum, a More Distant Relative of Corn -- 6. Corn’s Old World Relatives -- 7. Pod Corn, the Ancestral Form -- 8. The Nature of the Pod-Corn Locus -- 9. Races of Maize -- 10. The Concept of Lineages -- 11 The Role of Hybridization in Corn’s Evolution -- 12. Mutations -- 13. Genetic Drift and Selection -- 14. Archaeological Evidence of Corn’s Evolution -- 15. Prehistoric Wild Corn and Fossil Pollen -- 16. Corn in Prehistoric Art -- 17. Corn’s Spread to the Old World -- 18. The Prehistoric and Modern Improvement of Maize -- 19. The Nature of Heterosis -- 20. Modern Breeding Techniques -- Bibliography -- Index |
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