Rafal Gutaker Profile picture
Driven by passion for natural history and agriculture. Research group leader in Bioinformatics at RBG Kew.
Jun 24, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
nature.com/articles/s4155…
🥔🥔🥔 Our herbarium genomics work with @hernanaburbano et al. is out in @NatureEcoEvo! We reconstructed potato introduction and adaptation to Europe using historic genomes (including Darwin's specimens); extract below:
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Historic records show that European potatoes came from Andes, yet morphologically and phenologically they resemble lowland Chilean landraces. No wonder why!
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