New Insight into the History of Domesticated Apple: Secondary Contribution of the European Wild Apple to the Genome of Cultivated Varieties

Cornille, Amandine; Gladieux, Pierre; Smulders, M.J.M.; Roldán-Ruíz, Isabel; Laurens, François; Le Cam, Bruno; Nersesyan, Anush; Clavel, Joanne; V. Olonova, Marina; Feugey, Laurence; Gabrielyan, Ivan; Zhang, Xiu-Guo; I. Tenaillon, Maud; Giraud, Tatiana

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002703

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New Insight into the History of Domesticated Apple: Secondary Contribution of the European Wild Apple to the Genome of Cultivated Varieties

Published in PLoS Genetics • May 10, 2012

Authors:

Amandine Cornille

Pierre Gladieux

M.J.M. Smulders

Abstract

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...

Subject

Domestication

Introgression

Biology

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