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Roses for Darwin

Nature Plants volume 4, pages 406–407 (2018)Cite this article

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The publication of two high-quality rose reference genomes opens new possibilities for a better understanding of the rise of the phenotypic diversity behind domestication.

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Fig. 1: Rosa gallica versicolour.

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