so i went out a bit ago to check up on the droopy teosinte in my yard, hoping it would perk up as well as it did no campus ( it has )and as i was nosing around in the bed i was startled to see that the northern tepehuan teosinte has developed support roots the same way my maize plants have...another bit of morphological evidence ( that multitudes doubtlessly already knew about...but i did not...that learning stuff again ) that links teosinte with maize in the zea family...the "wild and weedy ancestors" hold just as much fascination as the domestic cultivars do...i wonder if the international potato center has any germplasm for wild potatoes...they have thousands of potato accessions ...perhaps there are some ancestors available too.
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