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Molecular phylogeography of domesticated barley traces expansion of agriculture in the Old World.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2007
Saisho Daisuke, Purugganan Michael D
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) was first cultivated 10,500 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and is one of the founder crops of Eurasian agriculture. Phylogeographic analysis of five nuclear loci and morphological assessment of two traits in >250 domesticated barley accessions reveal that landraces found in South and East Asia are genetically distinct from those in Europe and North Africa. A Bayesian...
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