Crop plants as models for understanding plant adaptation and diversification
Since the time of Darwin, biologists have understood the promise of crop plants and their wild relatives for providing insight into the mechanisms of phenotypic evolution. The intense selection imposed by our ancestors during plant domestication and subsequent crop improvement has generated remarkab...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2013.00290/full |