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Nuclear and chloroplast DNA reassessment of the origin of Indian potato varieties and its implications for the origin of the early European potato.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Apr 2005
Spooner D M, Nuñez J, Rodríguez F, Naik P S, Ghislain M
Abstract excerpt
The modern cultivated potato was first recorded in Europe in 1562, but its area(s) of exportation has long been in dispute. Two competing hypotheses have proposed an "Andean" area (somewhere from upland Venezuela to northern Argentina) or a lowland south central "Chilean" area. Potato landraces from these two areas can be distinguished, although sometimes with difficulty, by (1) cytoplasmic sterility factors, (2)...
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