Teosinte and Early Domesticated Corn (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Teosinte and Early Domesticated Corn

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The famous botanist George Beadle created a facsimile of an early of early domesticated corn (right) by crossing the wild grass teosinte (left) with Argentine popcorn.

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John Doebley

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