Unique forms of maize were developed in hundreds of locations by Native Americans (Goodman and Brown 1988) and the majority of these were carefully collected and cataloged early in the 20th century.
To build a foundation to sequence the maize genome, physical and genetic maps of maize were developed and anchored to each other, resulting in an useful tool for evolutionary studies of maize (Cone et al. 2002; Wei et al. 2007; Wei et al. 2009).
The Wisconsin Quality Synthetic (WQS) maize population was developed by the University of Wisconsin maize breeding program nearly three decades ago and is currently in its fifth cycle of recurrent selection for high-quality stover and high forage yield (Frey et al. 2004; Gustafson et al. 2010).
The high density Affymetrix® Axiom® Maize Genotyping Array is optimized for European and American temperate maize and was developed based on a diverse sample panel by applying stringent quality filter criteria to ensure its suitability for a broad range of applications.
They had no experience with maize, which was developed by native peoples in Mexico and Guatemala about 5,000 years ago.
In this work, a sensitive, simple and viable spectrophotometry method to determine iron in wheat and maize flours was developed following a cloud point extraction (CPE) procedure.
In this study, a novel maize kernel traits scorer (MKTS) was developed for the automatic measurement of 12 maize kernel traits based on line-scan imaging, image processing, and automatic control techniques.
The biofortified orange maize for the test group was developed at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center as part of its HarvestPlus biofortified maize research project (30).
MON 87411 maize, which expresses DvSnf7 RNA, was developed to provide an additional mode of action to confer protection against corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp).
More recently, a maize-nested association mapping population (NAM) was developed combining the favorable properties of both approaches capturing a wide range of maize genetic diversity, exploiting ancestral recombination, and having sufficient power to dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits (Yu et al. 2008; Buckler et al. 2009; Peiffer et al. 2013).
