Contributions of Zea mays subspecies mexicana haplotypes to modern maize
oleh: Ning Yang, Xi-Wen Xu, Rui-Ru Wang, Wen-Lei Peng, Lichun Cai, Jia-Ming Song, Wenqiang Li, Xin Luo, Luyao Niu, Yuebin Wang, Min Jin, Lu Chen, Jingyun Luo, Min Deng, Long Wang, Qingchun Pan, Feng Liu, David Jackson, Xiaohong Yang, Ling-Ling Chen, Jianbing Yan
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2017-11-01 |
Deskripsi
Maize was domesticated from wild lowland progenitors that co-existed with upland subspecies in Southwestern Mexico. Here Yang et al. use a meta-assembly approach to assemble an upland mexicana genome and find evidence of introgression suggesting it contributed to modern maize adaptation