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Tibet is one of the centers of domestication of cultivated barley.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Oct 2012
Dai Fei, Nevo Eviatar, Wu Dezhi, Comadran Jordi, Zhou Meixue, Qiu Long, Chen Zhonghua, Beiles Avigdor, Chen Guoxiong, Zhang Guoping
Abstract excerpt
The Near East Fertile Crescent is well recognized as a primary center of barley origin, diversity, and domestication. A large number of wild barleys have been collected from the Tibetan Plateau, which is characterized by an extreme environment. We used genome-wide diversity array technology markers to analyze the genotypic division between wild barley from the Near East and Tibet. Our results confirmed the...
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