Races of Maize in Cuba (1957) / Chapter Skim
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HISTORY OF CUBAN CORN 11 of any race of Caribbean maize, is adequate proof of the existence of corn on Hispaniola in the early sixteenth century, and thus tends to confirm Las Casas' version of Columbus' Journal. We may assume that what Oviedo said of Hispaniola can be applied directly to Cuba, for he wrote (Lib.
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12 RACES OF MAIZE Hidalgo Gato, a popcorn ( 19)
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COLLECTION AND CLASSIFICATION 13 Subsequent attempts to find plantings of this race have yielded negative results. The Anderson-Cutler definition leads to a second, less obvious difficulty - that of distinguishing between a common mongrel or mixed type and a well established race.
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14 RACES OF MAIZE tions lead to the definition of race of maize as a group of one or more populations of true-breeding individuals with a number of significant characteristics in common. Implicit in the definition and helpful in identifying the races of maize in any country is the fact that such a population is usually recognized as an agricultural variety by the more careful farmers among the people who grow it.
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COLLECTION AND CLASSIFICATION 15 types were approximately the same as those observed in the yield test obtained from the Hernandez-Clement collection. Grain dealers and growers of this major corn-producing region of Cuba repeatedly offered the opinion that "degeneration" of well known varieties was an increasingly serious problem.
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16 RACES OF MAIZE types similar to the extreme forms found in the progeny of the Herm1ndez-Clement collection was undertaken in the mountainous regions of Oriente province. The results of this excursion were not entirely negative.
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COLLECTION AND CLASSIFICATION 17 tassel characters were made only on collections which bred true (in a relative sense) in experimental plantings.
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