Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)
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The Evolution of Date Palms in North Africa
The role that inter specific hibedization is played in the evolution of these crops. Caund, i put you on the spot, what's your best guess about how this might happen? Oh, i'm a pad selectionist. Ye, of course it hel local adaptation. A a sheamapad selection is too loud, too. La, buti that's, that's the hypothesis we are trying to task Salli with. We never quite put a number on these effective population sizes. So how small were they? Ijust tring t imagine ing those ays. It hunt just hundreds of plants that are the origins of of the low thousands. Ga, still,
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