Maize populations at higher altitudes had smaller genomes than those at lower altitudes.

Claim · model-written summary

Maize populations at higher altitudes had smaller genomes than those at lower altitudes.

Taxon

maizeZea mayse1

Outcome

genome sizese0

Direction

smallere0

Comparator

those growing at lower altitudese0

Setting

higher altitudese0

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Verbatim

e0

“populations cultivated at higher altitudes, which are known to be precocious, have smaller genome sizes than do those growing at lower altitudes.”

e1

“native Argentinian and Bolivian maize landraces”