Fast-flowering mini-maize: Genomic ancestry
Four plants of each founder population plus two FFMM-B plants were grown to the seedling stage in a growth chamber (16 hr light/8 hr dark at a constant 25C and 30 per cent relative humidity). Samples consisting of 5 cm2 of leaf tissue were collected into 96-well plates; to increase the depth of coverage, each founder plant was sampled three times and each FFMM-B plant was sampled twice, for a total of 52 individual samples.