G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (Mar 2021)
Social network analysis of the genealogy of strawberry: retracing the wild roots of heirloom and modern cultivars
Abstract
Cultivated strawberry has a compelling domestication history: the earliest cultivars originated in western Europe as spontaneous hybrids between non-sympatric wild species imported from the New World. The origin of those early hybrids went undiscovered for nearly a half century before conscious domestication began. Here, Pincot, Ledda, Feldmann et al