An adaptive teosinte introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time.

Native Americans domesticated maize ( ssp. ) from lowland teosinte ( ssp. in the warm Mexican southwest and brought it to the highlands of Mexico and South America where it was exposed to lower temperatures that imposed strong selection on flowering time.

The arches and spandrels of maize domestication, adaptation, and improvement.

People living in the Balsas River basin in southwest México domesticated maize from the bushy grass teosinte. Nine thousand years later, in 2021, Ms. Deb Haaland - a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe of New Mexico - wore a dress adorned with a cornstalk when she was sworn in as the Secretary of Interior of the United States of America.