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The Horn of Africa as a centre of barley diversification and a potential domestication site.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Apr 2007
Orabi Jihad, Backes Gunter, Wolday Asmelash, Yahyaoui Amor, Jahoor Ahmed
Abstract excerpt
According to a widely accepted theory on barley domestication, wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) from the Fertile Crescent is the progenitor of all cultivated barley (H. vulgare ssp. vulgare). To determine whether barley has undergone one or more domestication events, barley accessions from three continents have been studied (a) using 38 nuclear SSR (nuSSRs) markers, (b) using five chloroplast SSR...
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