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  1. Assistant Geneticist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico

    Robert McK Bird & Major M. Goodman

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Paper No. 4414 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, North Carolina. An earlier version was presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Society for Economic Botany, August 1, 1972. This investigation was supported in part by NIH research grant number GM 11546 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Bird, R.M., Goodman, M.M. The races of maize v: grouping maize races on the basis of ear morphology. Econ Bot 31, 471–481 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912560

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