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SUBMITTER: Hyten DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1624862 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hyten David L DL Song Qijian Q Zhu Youlin Y Choi Ik-Young IY Nelson Randall L RL Costa Jose M JM Specht James E JE Shoemaker Randy C RC Cregan Perry B PB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061026 45
Soybean has undergone several genetic bottlenecks. These include domestication in Asia to produce numerous Asian landraces, introduction of relatively few landraces to North America, and then selective breeding over the past 75 years. It is presumed that these three human-mediated events have reduced genetic diversity. We sequenced 111 fragments from 102 genes in four soybean populations representing the populations before and after genetic bottlenecks. We show that soybean has lost many rare se ...[more]