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Reliability of Identification of Fossil Pollen as Corn*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
On the basis of present methods of identification of corn pollen, 30% of the pollen collected from maize plants grown under a wide range of environments was misclassified as Tripsacum and teosinte. The results show that the characters used to describe corn pollen are too variable to permit reliable identification of fossil pollen as corn.
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Contribution from the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Paper, No. 554.
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