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Brassica rapa Domestication: Untangling Wild and Feral Forms and Convergence of Crop Morphotypes.
Molecular biology and evolution - 29 Jul 2021
McAlvay Alex C, Ragsdale Aaron P, Mabry Makenzie E, Qi Xinshuai, Bird Kevin A, Velasco Pablo, An Hong, Pires J Chris, Emshwiller Eve
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The study of domestication contributes to our knowledge of evolution and crop genetic resources. Human selection has shaped wild Brassica rapa into diverse turnip, leafy, and oilseed crops. Despite its worldwide economic importance and potential as a model for understanding diversification under domestication, insights into the number of domestication events and initial crop(s) domesticated in B. rapa have been...
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