Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. • DOI: 10.1002/tie.21535 Correspondence to: Thomas A. Hemphill, University of Michigan-Flint, School of Management, 4169 William S. White Building, Flint, Michigan 48502-1950, 810-762-3282 (phone), 810-762-3282 (fax), thomashe@umfl int.edu China’s National Champions: The Evolution of a National Indu...

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Italian maize germplasm is particularly rich in local materials and each region characterized by the presence of peculiar varieties deriving from centuries adaptation, selection cultivation. While introduction hybrids, during 1950s, led to disappearing many these varieties, some have been maintained cultivation farmers, frequently marginal areas, as a kind family heritage. Local were identified...

ALONG THE line of the prehistoric trackway Icknield Way, a ridge of chalk, five miles wide, extends through west Norfolk to north-west Suffolk.' Beneath it lies-a seam of floorstone flint that Neolithic men exploited when they dug a series of large and elaborate mines to extract the flint at a site in south-west Norfolk now known as Grime's Graves. Over the succeeding four thousand years when t...