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Science 4 February 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5710, pp. 683 - 684
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105459
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
A Century of Corn Selection

William G. Hill

For millennia, plant and animal breeders have used careful selection methods to obtain crops and livestock exhibiting enhanced desired traits of agronomic importance. In a Perspective, Hill explains progress toward understanding the sets of genes involved in selection of these traits. In particular he discusses a paper published elsewhere that details the genetics of two maize lines selected for one hundred generations to produce high and low concentrations of oil in the kernels.

The author is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK. E-mail: w.g.hill{at}ed.ac.uk

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