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Evidence on the origin of cassava: phylogeography of Manihot esculenta.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 May 1999
Olsen K M, Schaal B A
Abstract excerpt
Cassava (Manihot esculenta subsp. esculenta) is a staple crop with great economic importance worldwide, yet its evolutionary and geographical origins have remained unresolved and controversial. We have investigated this crop's domestication in a phylogeographic study based on the single-copy nucl...
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