Prehistoric GM Corn
- 14 November 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 302 (5648) , 1158-1159
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1092042
Abstract
The huge ears of modern corn look nothing like the ears of teosinte, corn's ancestor. The question is: How did modern corn get that way? As Fedoroff explains in her Perspective, molecular sleuthing reveals that just a few genetic changes in teosinte were sufficient to produce a progenitor of modern corn, which was then carefully selected over thousands of years by our farmer ancestors to produce the corn that we pop in microwaves today ( Jaenicke et al.).Keywords
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