Evidence Concerning the Structure of an Ear of Corn (Zea mays, L.)

1 November 1951

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist

Vol. 85 (825) , 353-356
https://doi.org/10.1086/281688

Abstract

A photograph of 2 anomalous ears of corn shows a whorled type of phyllotaxy. One of the ears, a 4-rowed ear, illustrates the condensation by "yoking" postulated by Collins (1919). The evidence is interpreted as support for the fusion hypothesis of the origin of the maize ear.

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