Maize Variety (IMAGE)

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Maize Variety

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Maize has considerable natural variation in levels of provitamin A, the precursors that are converted to vitamin A upon consumption. These ears of maize are part of a collection of lines derived from an analysis that identifies different forms of a gene that influences concentrations of provitamin A.

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Photo by Catherine Bermudez Kandianis

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