Maize was domesticated at least 8700 years ago in the highlands of Mexico. Genome-wide
studies have greatly contributed to shed light into the diffusion of maize through the …

Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein
a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the …

Because of the economic importance of maize and its scientific importance as a model
system for studies of domestication, its evolutionary history is of general interest. We …

How contemporary plant genomes originated and evolved is a fascinating question. One
approach uses reference genomes from extant species to reconstruct the sequence and …

Plant diaspores, tissues and wood are preserved in natural and anthropogenic sediments.
Also, over the past centuries, plants have been collected in herbaria. These plant remains …

Archaeological and palaeoecological studies throughout the Americas have documented
widespread landscape and environmental transformation during the pre-Columbian era …

Following the discovery in the late 1980s that hard tissues such as bones and teeth preserve
genetic information, the field of ancient DNA analysis has typically concentrated upon these …

En este trabajo se debate el conocimiento disponible sobre las plantas útiles en grupos de
cazadores-recolectores del Noroeste argentino y se propone el estudio del instrumental de …

ABSTRACT A maize rhizosphere isolate was phenotypically and genotypically
characterized and identifed as Enterobacter spp. bacterium. Germinated seeds were …

Background Archaeobotanical samples of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) found at Qasr Ibrim
display a two-row phenotype that is unique to the region of archaeological sites upriver of …