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Insights into phylogeny, sex function and age of Fragaria based on whole chloroplast genome sequencing.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Njuguna Wambui, Liston Aaron, Cronn Richard, Ashman Tia-Lynn, Bassil Nahla
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The cultivated strawberry is one of the youngest domesticated plants, developed in France in the 1700s from chance hybridization between two western hemisphere octoploid species. However, little is known about the evolution of the species that gave rise to this important fruit crop. Phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast genome sequences of 21 Fragaria species and subspecies resolves the western North American...
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