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... INTRODUCTION Recent studies by workers of the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico and Colombia and of the Committee on Preservation of Indigenous Strains of Maize of the National Academy of Sciences- National Research Council elsewhere in Latin America have begun to demonstrate a wealth of diversity in maize not fully appreciated by earlier students. Utilization of this material in plant breeding and other crop improvement work has been aided by systems of classification emphasizing natural relationships.
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... 2 RACES OF MAIZE Caribbean islands for the National Research Council's gene-bank program. His report on the maize of the West Indies ( 8)

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