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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018

Evolutionary and food supply implications of ongoing maize domestication by Mexican

Mauricio R Bellon, Alicia Mastretta-Yanes, Alejandro Ponce-Mendoza, Daniel Ortiz-Santamaría, Oswaldo Oliveros-Galindo, Hugo Perales, Francisca Acevedo, José Sarukhán

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. The next era of crop domestication starts now.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  20. The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mauricio R BellonComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico mrbellon@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0642-3402
Alicia Mastretta-YanesCONACYT-CONABIO, Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Col. Parques del Pedregal, Del. Tlalpan, 14010 Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-2951-6353
Alejandro Ponce-MendozaComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-6220-2746
Daniel Ortiz-SantamaríaComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico.
Oswaldo Oliveros-GalindoComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico.
Hugo PeralesEl Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, Grupo de Agroecología, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 29290 Chiapas, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-3431-5759
Francisca AcevedoComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico.
José SarukhánComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur No. 4903, Tlalpan, Mexico City 14010, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maize evolution under domestication is a process that continues today. Case studies suggest that Mexican smallholder family farmers, known as

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DomesticationZea maysFarmersFood SupplyHumansMexicoPlant Breedingevolutionary servicesfood securitygenetic diversityproduction environments

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PMID30158306
PMCPMC6125897

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