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Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages.
BMC evolutionary biology - 25 Dec 2012
Schaefer Hanno, Hechenleitner Paulina, Santos-Guerra Arnoldo, Menezes de Sequeira Miguel, Pennington R Toby, Kenicer Gregory, Carine Mark A
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BACKGROUND: Tribe Fabeae comprises about 380 legume species, including some of the most ancient and important crops like lentil, pea, and broad bean. Breeding efforts in legume crops rely on a detailed knowledge of closest wild relatives and geographic origin. Relationships within the tribe, however, are incompletely known and previous molecular results conflicted with the traditional morphology-based...
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