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Two routes from the Fertile Crescent led to the introduction of common vetch into Europe
2025-06-06
Abstract excerpt
Vicia sativa (common vetch, n=6) is an annual leguminous plant with high drought tolerance and high grain protein content. Historically and still today, vetches are important for nitrogen fixation to maintain cereal yields and feeding grazing livestock. In this study, we re-sequenced the genomes of 279 common vetch accessions from a wide geographic range covering western Eurasia and North Africa to construct a com...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b6dd4106-1d83-502d-bcbc-fb49f6db4243
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.06.02.657542
