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Clonal diversity and estimation of relative clone age: application to agrobiodiversity of yam (Dioscorea rotundata).
BMC plant biology - 13 Nov 2013
Scarcelli Nora, Couderc Marie, Baco Mohamed N, Egah Janvier, Vigouroux Yves
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BACKGROUND: Clonal propagation is a particular reproductive system found in both the plant and animal kingdoms, from human parasites to clonally propagated crops. Clonal diversity provides information about plant and animal evolutionary history, i.e. how clones spread, or the age of a particular clone. In plants, this could provide valuable information about agrobiodiversity dynamics and more broadly about the...
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