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Taxon:  Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis



Summary
Genus:
Zea
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Tripsacinae
Nomen number:
103582
Place of publication:
Annual Rev. Genet. 4:450. 1971 (emend. Phytologia 23:249. 1972)
Verified:
07/15/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Zea mays L. (4 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. huehuetenangensis (H. H. Iltis & Doebley) Doebley (0 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mays (0 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. parviglumis H. H. Iltis & Doebley (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Euchlaena mexicana Schrad.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze

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Reference(s)
  1. Díez M., C. et al. 2013. Genome size variation in wild and cultivated maize along altitudinal gradients. New Phytol. 199:264-276.
  2. Doebley, J. F. & H. H. Iltis. 1980. Taxonomy of Zea (Gramineae). I. A subgeneric classification with key to taxa. Amer. J. Bot. 67:982-993. URL: http://www.amjbot.org
  3. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators Note: = Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/
  5. González, G. A. & L. Poggio. 2015. Genomic affinities revealed by GISH suggests intergenomic restructuring between parental genomes of the paleopolyploid genus Zea. Genome 58:1-7.
  6. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  7. Hufford, M. B. et al. 2013. The genomic signature of crop-wild introgression in maize. PLoS Genet. 9(5):e1003477. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003477. URL: http://www.plosgenetics.org/
  8. Iltis, H. H. & J. F. Doebley. 1980. Taxonomy of Zea (Gramineae). II. Subspecific categories in the Zea mays complex and a generic synopsis. Amer. J. Bot. 67:994-1004. URL: http://www.amjbot.org
  9. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  10. Matsuoka, R. et al. 2002. A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:6080-6084.
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  13. Rojas-Barrera, I. C. et al. 2019. Contemporary evolution of maize landraces and their wild relatives influenced by gene flow with modern maize varieties. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1-10. DOI: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1817664116.
  14. Ross-Ibarra, J. et al. 2009. Historical divergence and gene flow in the genus Zea. Genetics 181:1399-1413.
  15. Sánchez González, J. J. et al. 2011. Three new teosintes (Zea spp., Poaceae) from México. Amer. J. Bot. 98:1537-1548. URL: http://www.amjbot.org
  16. Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource). URL: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/malezasdemexico/poaceae/zea-mays-mexicana/fichas/pagina1.htm
  17. Wang, L. et al. 2008. Creation of new maize germplasm using alien introgression from Zea mays ssp. mexicana. Euphytica 164:789-801. Note: Netherlands journal of plant breeding
  18. Warburton, M. L. et al. 2011. Gene flow among different teosinte taxa and into the domesticated maize gene pool. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 58:1243-1261. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
  19. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:637.
Common names
English
Central Plateau teosinte –
Chalco teosinte –
Durango teosinte –
Mexican teosinte –
nobogame teosinte –
rayana grass –
French
téosinte –
German
Teosinte –
Portuguese (Brazil)
teosinto –
teosinto-de-Guatemala –
Spanish
maíz silvestre –
Swedish
sommarteosint –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoChihuahuas.w.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoDurangos.
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoGuanajuato 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoJaliscoe.
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoMéxico 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoMichoacán de Ocampoe.
Native
Northern America
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua (s.w.), Durango (s.)]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Guanajuato, Jalisco (e.), México, Michoacán de Ocampo (e.)]


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