Bolivia maize varieties: Difference between revisions

Maize crossed from the [[Peru]]vian mountains into Bolivia about 3,000 [[Common Era|BCE]] as a marginal food of the Andean peoples. [[Primitive (phylogenetics)|Primitive]] maize, with small and popping kernels, and flint [[endosperm]] aligned in four distinct rows on the [[Ear (botany)|ear]], later shifted to a decusseddecussate eight row alignment. Prior to the [[Inca Empire|Incan rule]] of Bolivia, selection of the mean primitive ears with eight rows diversified and underwent qualitative specialization (kernel composition, consistency, shape and color), followed by the increase in the number of the rows. The key events of this process were;<ref>''El maíz y su mejoramiento genético en Bolivia'', Gonzalo Ávila Lara, p142. ANCB – FSIP. Cochabamba. 2008.</ref>

Short and anthocianicanthocyanic plants with very low ear insertion. Grown between 3,000-3,700 masl, in the Lake Titicaca plateau.