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Definition of Teosintes

Teosinte
Teosinte Te`o*sin"te, n. (Bot.) A large grass (Euchl[ae]na luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.

Meaning of Teosintes from wikipedia

- mexicana, Z. m. parviglumis (Balsas teosinte, the ancestor of maize), and Z. m. mays. The first three subspecies are teosintes; the last is maize, or corn, the...
- the domesticated variant of the four species of teosintes, which are its crop wild relatives. The teosinte origin theory was proposed by the Russian botanist...
- Look up teosinte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Teosintes are several wild species of gr**** in the genus Zea which are critical components of maize...
- diploperennis, the diploperennial teosinte, is a species of gr**** (family: Poaceae) in the genus Zea and a teosinte (wild relative of maize or corn)....
- Zea perennis, the perennial teosinte, is a true gr**** species in the genus Zea and a teosinte. It is one of the two perennial species in the genus Zea...
- forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species such as maize and teosinte. The infected corn is edible; in Mexico, it is considered a delicacy, called...
- two decades examining the genetic differences and similarities between teosinte and maize and has cloned the major genes that cause the visible differences...
- artificial selection, as with the domestication and breeding of maize from wild teosinte gr****es in the valleys of southern Mexico. Numerous such agricultural products...
- Helminthosporium maydis, Cochliobolus heterostrophus, Corn, Sorghum, Teosinte". Archived from the original on 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2012-03-02. Oda,...
- between maize and Teosinte in their features, but about 1 in 500 of the plants were identical to either the parent maize or the parent teosinte. Using the mathematics...