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Conservation and genetic characterisation of common bean landraces from Cilento region (southern Italy): high differentiation in spite of low genetic diversity.
Genetica - 1 Feb 2018
De Luca Daniele, Cennamo Paola, Del Guacchio Emanuele, Di Novella Riccardo, Caputo Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Since its introduction from Central-South America to Italy almost 500 years ago, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was largely cultivated across the peninsula in hundreds of different landraces. However, globalisation and technological modernisation of agricultural practices in the last decades promoted the cultivation of few varieties at the expense of traditional and local agro-ecotypes, which have been...
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