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The wild side of a major crop: soybean's perennial cousins from Down Under.
American journal of botany - 1 Oct 2014
Sherman-Broyles Sue, Bombarely Aureliano, Powell Adrian F, Doyle Jane L, Egan Ashley N, Coate Jeremy E, Doyle Jeff J
Abstract excerpt
The accumulation of over 30 years of basic research on the biology, genetic variation, and evolution of the wild perennial relatives of soybean (Glycine max) provides a foundation to improve cultivated soybean. The cultivated soybean and its wild progenitor, G. soja, have a center of origin in eastern Asia and are the only two species in the annual subgenus Soja. Systematic and evolutionary studies of the ca. 30...
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