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Fostered and left behind alleles in peanut: interspecific QTL mapping reveals footprints of domestication and useful natural variation for breeding.
BMC plant biology - 17 Feb 2012
Fonceka Daniel, Tossim Hodo-Abalo, Rivallan Ronan, Vignes Hélène, Faye Issa, Ndoye Ousmane, Moretzsohn Márcio C, Bertioli David J, Glaszmann Jean-Christophe, Courtois Brigitte, Rami Jean-François
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Polyploidy can result in genetic bottlenecks, especially for species of monophyletic origin. Cultivated peanut is an allotetraploid harbouring limited genetic diversity, likely resulting from the combined effects of its single origin and domestication. Peanut wild relatives represent an important source of novel alleles that could be used to broaden the genetic basis of the cultigen. Using an advanced...
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