Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of two modern day agriculturally important plants: a role for two different wild teosintes in making modern maize, and the origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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- Two teosintes made modern maize (Science)
- Teosinte (Native Seeds)
- Evolution of triploid banana genome (Nature)
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