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Natural hybridization between a clonally propagated crop, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and a wild relative in French Guiana.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2007
Duputié Anne, David Patrice, Debain Chantal, McKey Doyle
Abstract excerpt
Because domestication rarely leads to speciation, domesticated populations often hybridize with wild relatives when they occur in close proximity. Little work has focused on this question in clonally propagated crops. If selection on the capacity for sexual reproduction has been relaxed, these cr...
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