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The single Andigenum origin of Neo-Tuberosum potato materials is not supported by microsatellite and plastid marker analyses.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Mar 2009
Ghislain Marc, Núñez Jorge, Herrera María del Rosario, Spooner David M
Abstract excerpt
Neo-Tuberosum refers to cultivated potato adapted to long-day tuberization and a syndrome of related morphological and physiological traits, developed by intercrossing and selection of short-day adapted potatoes of the Solanum tuberosum Andigenum Group, native from the Andes of western Venezuela to northern Argentina. This re-creation of the modern potato helped support the theory of an Andigenum Group origin of...
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