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RACIAL DIVERSITY OF MAIZE IN BRAZIL AND ADJACENT AREAS 1

2007; Experimental Institute for Cereal Growing; Volume: 52; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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M. M. Goodman, C. W. Stuber,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

The races of southern and eastern South America are described in several of the Races of Maize Bulletins, as well as in a pioneering work by Hugh Cutler. Basically, there appear to be eight essentially distinct types of maize that have contributed to the diversity that has been collected there. These include: (1) a wide as- sortment of commercial races and some of the more pro- ductive Indigenous races that can be subdivided into six subgroups: (a) the commercial dent and semi-dent races of Brazil, Caingang, Moroti, the Brazilian Catetos and Cristals; (b) the Cateto and Cristal Sulinos; (c) Cristalino and Dentado Comercial from Chile (d) Camelia, the low- land Bolivian Flints and Flours, and the Cateto Nortistas; (e) Canario de Ocho of Uruguay, Cateto Grande, and Mo- roti Precoce; (f) Tuson from Brazil. Many races of this