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Domestication: Polyploidy boosts domestication

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A detailed phylogenetic study now shows that there is a compelling association between polyploidy and domestication, and that polyploidy more frequently occurs before domestication.

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Figure 1: Two possible scenarios involving polyploidy and domestication.

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  1. Zhou Fang is in the Crop Science Division, Bayer, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA.,

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  2. Peter L. Morrell is in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA.,

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Fang, Z., Morrell, P. Domestication: Polyploidy boosts domestication. Nature Plants 2, 16116 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.116

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