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Microsatellites uncover extraordinary diversity in native American land races and wild populations of cultivated sunflower.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Apr 2003
Tang Shunxue, Knapp Steven J
Abstract excerpt
The contemporary oilseed sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) gene pool is a product of multiple breeding and domestication bottlenecks. Despite substantial phenotypic diversity, modest differences in molecular genetic diversity have been uncovered in anciently and recently domesticated sunflowers. The paucity of molecular marker polymorphisms in early analyses led to the hypothesis of a single domestication origin....
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