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Morphometrics and phylogenomics of coca ( <i>Erythroxylum</i> spp.) illuminate its reticulate evolution, with implications for taxonomy
2023-11-29
Abstract excerpt
South American coca ( Erythroxylum coca and E. novogranatense ) has been a key-stone crop for many Andean and Amazonian communities for at least 8,000 years. However, over the last half century, global demand for cocaine has placed this plant in the centre of armed conflict, deforestation, and explosive growth of illegal economies. While national and international agencies progress from a ‘war on drugs’ policy m...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5a8c4cf6-b3c7-5d10-ae5f-faebb9f27b06
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.11.28.569066
