Phylogenetic Relationships among North American Popcorns and Their Evolutionary Links to Mexican and South American Popcorns
A. Santacruz-Varelaa,
M. P. Widrlechnerb,*,
K. E. Zieglerc,
R. J. Salvadorc,
M. J. Millardc and
P. K. Brettingd
a Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Edo. de México, Mexico 56230
b USDA-ARS and Dep. of Agronomy, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011-1170
c Dep. of Agronomy, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011-1010
d USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20715-5139

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Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree produced by a Neighbor-Joining analysis for 56 maize populations based on a matrix of Gower distances derived from 29 morphological traits, 58 isozyme alleles, and 191 SSR alleles.
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Fig. 2. Representation of the first and second principal components based on the correlations matrix among 29 morphological traits, 58 isozyme alleles, and 191 SSR alleles scored for 56 maize populations.
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Fig. 3. Representation of the first and third principal components based on the correlations matrix among 29 morphological traits, 58 isozyme alleles, and 191 SSR alleles scored for 56 maize populations.
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