“In 10,000 years of domestication from the wild relative teosinte, maize has retained and generated allelic diversity and new genes, resulting in greater divergence than is found between two hominids separated by 3.5 million years.”
— Kockafejű fact of the day. (via PLoS Genetics: 10 Reasons to be Tantalized by the B73 Maize Genome)
November 25, 2009, 10:28am
