Plant BiologybioRxiv
Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru
M. Vallebueno-Estrada, G. G. Hernandez-Robles, E. Gonzalez-Orozco…·R. Montiel
The paper analyzes ancient maize DNA from Peru to show it originated from Mesoamerica, arrived without teosinte introgression, and underwent lowland adaptation.
DOI 10.7554/elife.83149