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Tracing the geographic origins of major avocado cultivars.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Chen Haofeng, Morrell Peter L, Ashworth Vanessa E T M, de la Cruz Marlene, Clegg Michael T
Abstract excerpt
It has been difficult to infer the genetic history of avocado breeding, owing to the role of hybridization in the origin of contemporary avocado cultivars. To address this difficulty, we used the model-based clustering program, STRUCTURE, and nucleotide polymorphism in 5960 bp of sequence from 4 nuclear loci to examine population structure in 21 wild avocado accessions. The origins of 33 cultivars were inferred...
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