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Uncovering the dispersion history, adaptive evolution and selection of wheat in China.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Jan 2018
Zhou Yong, Chen Zhongxu, Cheng Mengping, Chen Jian, Zhu Tingting, Wang Rui, Liu Yaxi, Qi Pengfei, Chen Guoyue, Jiang Qiantao, Wei Yuming, Luo Ming-Cheng, Nevo Eviatar, Allaby Robin G, Liu Dengcai, Wang Jirui, Dvorák Jan, Zheng Youliang
Abstract excerpt
Wheat was introduced to China approximately 4500 years ago, where it adapted over a span of time to various environments in agro-ecological growing zones. We investigated 717 Chinese and 14 Iranian/Turkish geographically diverse, locally adapted wheat landraces with 27 933 DArTseq (for 717 landraces) and 312 831 Wheat660K (for a subset of 285 landraces) markers. This study highlights the adaptive evolutionary...
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