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Endangered Maize
"Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect crop plants they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative about the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls...
The Discovery & Character of Transposable Elements
This volume holds a collection of papers around the discovery of transposable elements in maize and chomosome behaviour. They were selected because of their relevance to this topic. For the discovery of "Mobile genetic elements" Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
