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C. Wayne Smith is an associate professor and director of the Archaeological Preservation Research Laboratory - APRL. He holds the INA Faculty Fellowship. Working as a conservator, he specializes in the preservation of organic artifacts using silicone oils, resins, and other polymers. Archaeological Conservation Using Polymers, his most recent work published by Texas A&M University Press, discusses practical applications for the stabilization of organic artifacts. Since 1981, he has participated in survey and shipwreck assessment in the Great Lakes and participated as a student and research assistant in excavations at Port Royal, Jamaica. Working in conjunction with Donny L. Hamilton of Texas A&M University and Dow Corning Corporation of Midland, Michigan, he has developed and patented new conservation strategies and industrial applications. He also participates in numerous joint international research projects.

• Preface. Contributors.SECTION I: ORIGIN, DOMESTICATION, AND HISTORY.Chapter 1.1:Corn, Strange and Marvelous: But Is a Definitive Origin Known? (Garrison Wilkes).Chapter 1.2: Changes in Performance, Parentage, and Genetic Diversity of Successful Corn Hybrids, 1930–2000 (Donald N. Duvick, J. S. C. Smith, and M. Cooper).Chapter 1.3: Germplasm Resources (Suketoshi Taba, Steve A. Eberhart, and Linda M. Pollak).Chapter 1.4: Persistent and Popular Germplasm in Seventy Centuries of Corn Evolution (A. Forrest Troyer).SECTION II: THE CORN PLANT.Chapter 2.1: Physiology of the Corn Plant (Mark E. Westgate, María E. Otegui, and Fernando H. Andrade).Chapter 2.2: The Corn Kernel (L. W. Rooney, C. M. McDonough, and R. D. Waniska).Chapter 2.3: Corn Breeding (F. Javier Betr´an, Marianne B¨anziger, and Mónica Menz).Chapter 2.4: Biotechnology: New Horizons (Shawn Kaeppler).Chapter 2.5: Cytogenetics of Corn (James A. Birchler, Donald L. Auger, and Akio Kato).SECTION III: PRODUCTION.Chapter 3.1: Production Statistics (Penelope J. Bebeli and C. Wayne Smith).Chapter 3.2 Corn Management (Dale R. Hicks and P. R. Thomison).Chapter 3.3 World Corn Production Practices (Joel K. Ransom, Robert J. Carsky, and A. F. E. Palmer).Chapter 3.4: Hybrid Corn Seed Production (David L. Beck).Chapter 3.5 Insect Control (TomA. Royer, Phillip E. Sloderbeck, Noel Troxclair, Jr., and Robert J. Wright).Chapter 3.6: Disease Control (Daniel P. Jeffers).Chapter 3.7: Weed Control (Robert J. Kremer).Chapter 3.8: Corn Marketing (Robert N. Wisner and E. Dean Baldwin).SECTION IV: PRODUCT PROCESSING.Chapter 4.1: Harvest and Harvest Equipment (Graeme R. Quick).Chapter 4.2: On-Farm Handling, Storage, and Quality (Dirk E. Maier).Chapter 4.3 Corn Processing and Products (Frank T. Orthoefer and J. Eastman).Chapter 4.4 Specialty Corns (Arnel R. Hallauer).Index.