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Ancient polyploidy, common throughout the history of flowering plants, has left a legacy of duplicated genes within plant genomes. We found evidence that this genetic diversity was important during the domestication of the diverse crop varieties of Brassica rapa. Not only were genes from ancient polyploidy over-represented among domestication candidate genes, they also harbor more genetic diversity than other genes in the genome of B. rapa.
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This page is a summary of: Genes derived from ancient polyploidy have higher genetic diversity and are associated with domestication in
Brassica rapa, New Phytologist, March 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17194.
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