Historic manioc genomes illuminate maintenance of diversity under long-lived clonal cultivation | Science

Manioc—also called cassava and yuca—is among the world’s most important crops, originating in South America in the early Holocene. Domestication for its starchy roots involved a near-total shift from sexual to clonal propagation, and almost all manioc ...

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Historic manioc genomes illuminate maintenance of diversity under long-lived clonal cultivation | Science
Manioc—also called cassava and yuca—is among the world’s most important crops, originating in South America in the early Holocene. Domestication for its starchy roots involved a near-total shift from sexual to clonal propagation, and almost all manioc ...