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A collection of maize from Darien, Panama

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A collection of maize obtained from the Chocó Indian tribe of Darien, Panama, differs from published accounts of maize reported as typical for the area in size and in methods of cultivation. The collection may represent a segregating population from crosses occurring between the racesChococeño andCoastal Tropical Flint. Implications of this hypothesis with regard to problems of introduction, present geographical occurrence, and transportation of these races by nomadic human vectors are briefly discussed.

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  1. Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Mass

    Norton H. Nickerson

  2. Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn

    Alan P. Covich

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This work was supported in part by NSF Grant G 21329 made to Washington University, by Grant G 21942 made to the Missouri Botanical Garden, and by a grant from the Faculty Research Fund of Tufts University.

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Nickerson, N.H., Covich, A.P. A collection of maize from Darien, Panama. Econ Bot 20, 434–440 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904066

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