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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1974 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 114 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 maps, 18 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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