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Farmers without borders-genetic structuring in century old barley (Hordeum vulgare).
Heredity - 1 Feb 2015
Forsberg N E G, Russell J, Macaulay M, Leino M W, Hagenblad J
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The geographic distribution of genetic diversity can reveal the evolutionary history of a species. For crop plants, phylogeographic patterns also indicate how seed has been exchanged and spread in agrarian communities. Such patterns are, however, easily blurred by the intense seed trade, plant improvement and even genebank conservation during the twentieth century, and discerning fine-scale phylogeographic...
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