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On the domestication genetics of self-fertilizing plants

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We thank Gry Nordmark, Kråkerøy, Norway and Jon E. Swenson, UMB, Norway for helpful discussions and Dr. Johan Hultin, San Francisco, USA for providing the picture in Fig. 1b.

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    Bjørn Ivar Honne

  2. Norwegian University Life Sciences (UMB), INA, POB 5003, 1430, Ås, Norway

    Manfred Heun

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Honne, B.I., Heun, M. On the domestication genetics of self-fertilizing plants. Veget Hist Archaeobot 18, 269–272 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-009-0213-y

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