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What plant genes tell us about crop domestication

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« on: July 10, 2010, 06:57:07 pm »



The Gross Luesewitz Potato Collections of the IPK Genebank

We think of domestication as a process of careful selection, but chance also plays a role in which plants end up as crops. Most of the genetic diversity of wild plants is discarded as people bring a random sampling of plants into cultivation, as illustrated here by wild potatoes mainly from Central and South America.
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