Claim · model-written summary
Knob percentage, number, size, position and frequency varied within and among populations.
- Outcome
- variation in the percentage, number, size, chromosome position and frequencies of the heterochromatic blockse0
Zea maysVerbatim
t0“maize landraces”
e0“significant intra and inter-populational variation in the percentage, number, size, chromosome position and frequencies of the heterochromatic blocks, which are called knobs”
Title
María Florencia Realini; Lidia Poggio; Julián Cámara Hernández; et al. PLoS ONE 2018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198398
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Knob sequence composition did not differ significantly among Guaraní populations.
- Observation B chromosomes were not detected.
- Observation AB10 chromosomes occurred at low frequency in six populations.
- Observation Karyotypes characterized each population and defined NEA germplasm chromosomal constitution.
- Observation Karyotype parameters distinguished Popcorn and Floury maize population groups.
- Observation NEA and NWA maize showed important karyotype differences.
- Observation Results supported two pathways of South American maize introduction.
- Observation Results confirmed NEA and NWA as two diversification centers of Argentinian native maize.