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A Century of Corn Selection, Science
 









Excerpts: Since 1896, in one of the longest experiments ever, biologists at the
University of Illinois have continuously selected maize (corn) to change the oil
composition of its kernels. Separate maize lines have been selected for more
than 100 generations (...).

It is a challenge for geneticists to identify the genes and the molecular
changes in them that cause these many small but important differences in
quantitative traits. It is these small differences that generate variability in
populations, providing fuel for change through the action of natural and
artificial selection.
Source: A Century of Corn Selection[
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5710/683 ], William G. Hill,
Science : 683-684, 05/02/04

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