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Maize /Corn

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elifesciences.org/articles/05861
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. . . . Indians took the first steps toward modern maize in southern Mexico, probably in the highlands, more than six thousand years ago. Both argue (research scientists and geneticists) that modern maize was the outcome of both act of conscious biological manipulation -- “arguably man’s first, and perhaps his greatest, feat of genetic engineering,” Nina V. Federoff, a geneticist at Pennsylvania Sate University, wrote in2003. Federoff’s description, which appears in ‘Science’, intrigued me. It makes twenty-first century scientists sound like pikers, I said when I contacted her. “That’s right,” she said. “To get corn out of Teosinte www.nativeseeds.org/pages/teosinte is so -- you couldn’t get a grant to do that now, because it would sound so crazy.” She added, “Somebody who did that today would get a Nobel Prize if their lab didn’t get shut down by Greenpeace, I mean.” ~ 0age 223

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rethinking-corny-history-maize-180971038

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