This e-book uses text, images, maps, animations, interviews and time-lapse video to tell the story of how a common weed - teosinte - was transformed into maize via domestication and cross-breeding and traces the crop’s history from ancient Mexico up to the present day, covering everything from genome sequencing and transposons to genetic modification and biofortification of modern maize, culminating in the Maize Genome Sequencing Project in 2009. Also available via iTunes.