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Experimental evidence for the ancestry of allotetraploid Trifolium repens and creation of synthetic forms with value for plant breeding.
BMC plant biology - 24 Apr 2012
Williams Warren M, Ellison Nicholas W, Ansari Helal A, Verry Isabelle M, Hussain S Wajid
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BACKGROUND: White clover (Trifolium repens) is a ubiquitous weed of the temperate world that through use of improved cultivars has also become the most important legume of grazed pastures world-wide. It has long been suspected to be allotetraploid, but the diploid ancestral species have remained elusive. Putative diploid ancestors were indicated by DNA sequence phylogeny to be T. pallescens and T. occidentale....
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