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A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Oct 2005
Spooner David M, McLean Karen, Ramsay Gavin, Waugh Robbie, Bryan Glenn J
Abstract excerpt
The cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum, ultimately traces its origin to Andean and Chilean landraces developed by pre-Colombian cultivators. These Andean landraces exhibit tremendous morphological and genetic diversity, and are distributed throughout the Andes, from western Venezuela to northern Argentina, and in southern Chile. The wild species progenitors of these landraces have long been in dispute, but all...
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