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Assumed gene centers of peanuts and soybeans

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Here available biogeographic and genetic information on the distribution of peanuts, soybeans, and their wild progenitors has been assembled. This information indicates that the gene center of the cultivated peanuts must have been the mountainous parts of northern Argentina where closely related species still exist.

The assumed central area of distribution of the genusGlycine is tropical southern Asia where the greatest number of endemic species still live. From this area, the group migrated to central Africa and Oceania, and now forms an extensive pattern of distribution in the tropics. The milder coastal areas of Southeast Asia enabled one branch to move northward until it reached present-day China and Manchuria where some wild species are still found. Thus the assumable gene center of cultivated soybeans is the area where a closely related wild species, G.ussuriensis, still lives.

Exploration of these areas may reveal new data and provide new sources of germ plasm for varietal improvement and breeding of resistance of cultivated peanuts and soybeans.

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    Contribution from the Crops Research Division, United States Department of Agriculture. Plant Introduction Investigatíon Paper No. 22.

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    Leppik, E.E. Assumed gene centers of peanuts and soybeans. Econ Bot 25, 188–194 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860079

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