Obscuring the routes: confused data cannot reveal phylogeography of pea crop wild relatives (refutation to ‘Genomic diversity and macroecology of the crop wild relatives of domesticated pea’ by Smýkal et al. 2017)

Abstract

Profound data confusion is reported for the paper by Smýkal et al. (Genomic diversity and macroecology of the crop wild relatives of domesticated pea. Scientific Reports 7, 17384; 2017) which challenges the validity of its scientific conclusion and the data reported.

Keywords

• Pisum L.
• P. sativum L. subsp. elatius (Bieb.) Shmalh.
• Pisum fulvum Sibth. et Smith
• wild pea
• genetic diversity
• phylogeography
• critics
• data confusion
• refutation.