New insight into the history of domesticated apple: secondary contribution of the European wild apple to the genome of cultivated varieties.

New insight into the history of domesticated apple: secondary contribution of the European wild apple to the genome of cultivated varieties.

The apple is the most common and culturally important fruit crop of temperate areas. The elucidation of its origin and domestication history is therefore of great interest. The wild Central Asian species Malus sieversii has previously been identified as the main contributor to the genome of the cult...

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Main Authors: Amandine Cornille, Pierre Gladieux, Marinus J M Smulders, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, François Laurens, Bruno Le Cam, Anush Nersesyan, Joanne Clavel, Marina Olonova, Laurence Feugey, Ivan Gabrielyan, Xiu-Guo Zhang, Maud I Tenaillon, Tatiana Giraud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002703
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