Genetic Divergence between Camellia sinensis and Its Wild Relatives Revealed via Genome-Wide SNPs from RAD Sequencing.

Tea is one of the most popular beverages across the world and is made exclusively from cultivars of Camellia sinensis. Many wild relatives of the genus Camellia that are closely related to C. sinensis are native to Southwest China. In this study, we first identified the distinct genetic divergence b...

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Main Authors: Hua Yang, Chao-Ling Wei, Hong-Wei Liu, Jun-Lan Wu, Zheng-Guo Li, Liang Zhang, Jian-Bo Jian, Ye-Yun Li, Yu-Ling Tai, Jing Zhang, Zheng-Zhu Zhang, Chang-Jun Jiang, Tao Xia, Xiao-Chun Wan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4786323?pdf=render