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Evolutionary genomics of grape (Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera) domestication.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Oct 2017
Zhou Yongfeng, Massonnet Mélanie, Sanjak Jaleal S, Cantu Dario, Gaut Brandon S
Abstract excerpt
We gathered genomic data from grapes (Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera), a clonally propagated perennial crop, to address three ongoing mysteries about plant domestication. The first is the duration of domestication; archaeological evidence suggests that domestication occurs over millennia, but genetic evidence indicates that it can occur rapidly. We estimated that our wild and cultivated grape samples diverged...
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