Details for: PI 3998, Zea mays L., Lathrop & Fairchild No. 317


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Zea mays L.
Top Name:
Lathrop & Fairchild No. 317
Origin:
Collected – Al Qāhirah, Egypt
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
28 Dec 1899
PI Assigned:
1900
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Zea mays L.
Top Name:
Lathrop & Fairchild No. 317
Origin:
Collected – Al Qāhirah, Egypt
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
28 Dec 1899
PI Assigned:
1900
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
Lathrop & Fairchild No. 317
Type: Collector identifier
Extracted from PI book.
Millard, Mark J. USDA, ARS, NCRPIS

Narrative
A variety which yields heavy crops, and from comparison with introduced varieties is a heavier bearer and much preferred by cultivators. According to Mr. George P. Foaden, secretary of the Khedivial Agricultural Society, the yield is often 40 or 50 bushels per acre. Receives five waterings during the season. This is a field variety, said to be superior to any variety grown in Egypt from European seed. (reprinted from Inventory No. 6.) Distributed.
Zea mays L.
Genus:
Zea
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Tripsacinae
Nomen number:

42207
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:971. 1753
Verified:
10/28/2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Zea mays L. subsp. huehuetenangensis (H. H. Iltis & Doebley) Doebley (6 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mays (29191 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis (128 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. parviglumis H. H. Iltis & Doebley (250 active accession[s])
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Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishIndian corn  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishmaize  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Swedishmajs  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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