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 Image Number K7742-6 |
Unusually colored and shaped maize from Latin America. Exotic corn, like this, and domestic corn are preserved in ARS’s National Plant Germplasm System, providing a reservoir of genetic diversity on which breeders can call if a pathogen, pest, or other problem threatens a crop.
Photo by Keith Weller.
