Races of Maize in Cuba (1957) / Chapter Skim
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62 RACES OF MAIZE found this race throughout the West Indies. Since mixtures of the Cuban dents and Mafz Argentino, an introduced Cateto Hint, have given rise in Oriente province to a type virtually indistinguishable from the Mafz Criollo of western Cuba, it is possible that the "Coastal Tropical Flint" had a similar origin in South America, where both putative parents still exist.
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SUMMARY 63 hybridization, the results of twentieth-century technology, which tend to destroy the stability of morphological types and their geographical distributions, complicate the classification of races of maize. Cuba's situation is by no means unique.
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