Zea diploperennis
| Zea diploperennis | |
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| Zea diploperennis, Conservatoire botanique national de Brest, France, June 2007 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Genus: | Zea |
| Species: | Z. diploperennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Zea diploperennis H.H.Iltis Doebley & R.Guzman, 1979 | |
Zea diploperennis is a true grass species in the genus Zea and a teosinte.
Zea diploperennis is perennial. Virtually all populations of teosinte are either threatened or endangered: Zea diploperennis exists in an area of only a few square miles. The Mexican and Nicaraguan governments have taken action in recent years to protect wild teosinte populations, using both in-situ and ex-situ conservation methods. There is currently a large amount of scientific interest in conferring beneficial teosinte traits, such as insect resistance, perennialism and flood tolerance, to cultivated maize lines, although this is very difficult due to linked deleterious teosinte traits.
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