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The origin and evolution of a favorite fruit

Nature Genetics volume 51, pages 372–373 (2019)Cite this article

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The origin of strawberry is truly global, involving both natural processes and human intervention. The strawberry genome sequence provides support for an influential hypothesis of genome dominance.

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Fig. 1: Schematic showing the hybridizations that gave rise to Fragaria ananassa.

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  1. Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    David J. Bertioli

  2. Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    David J. Bertioli

  3. Department of Crop and Soil Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

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