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Evidence of a Strong Domestication Bottleneck in the Recently Cultivated New Zealand Endemic Root Crop, Arthropodium cirratum (Asparagaceae).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Shepherd Lara D, de Lange Peter J, Cox Simon, McLenachan Patricia A, Roskruge Nick R, Lockhart Peter J
Abstract excerpt
We use chloroplast DNA sequencing to examine aspects of the pre-European Māori cultivation of an endemic New Zealand root crop, Arthropodium cirratum (rengarenga). Researching the early stages of domestication is not possible for the majority of crops, because their cultivation began many thousands of years ago and/or they have been substantially altered by modern breeding methods. We found high levels of genetic...
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