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Tibet as a potential domestication center of cultivated barley of China.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Ren Xifeng, Nevo Eviatar, Sun Dongfa, Sun Genlou
Abstract excerpt
The importance of wild barley from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the origin and domestication of cultivated barley has long been underestimated. Population-based phylogenetic analyses were performed to study the origin and genetic diversity of Chinese domesticated barley, and address the possibility that the Tibetan region in China was an independent center of barley domestication. Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp....
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