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Chestnut cultivar diversification process in the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, and Azores.
Genome - 1 Apr 2011
Pereira-Lorenzo Santiago, Costa Rita Maria Lourenço, Ramos-Cabrer Ana María, Ciordia-Ara Marta, Ribeiro Carla Alexandra Marques, Borges Olga, Barreneche Teresa
Abstract excerpt
This is a large-scale molecular study based on simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci of the diversification process in chestnut cultivars from Portugal and Spain, from the northern Iberian Peninsula to the Canary Islands and the Azores. A total of 593 grafted chestnut trees (Castanea sativa Mill.) were analysed with 10 SSRs: 292 from Portugal and 301 from Spain. Some of the trees studied were more than 300 years old....
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