Incipient diploidization of the medicinal plant Perilla within 10,000 years

Perilla is a young allotetraploid species within the mint family Lamiaceae. Here, the authors assemble the genomes of a tetraploid species and its diploid progenitor, characterize the incipient diploidization of the tetraploid, conduct population genetics analyses, and identify loci associate with p...

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Main Authors: Yujun Zhang, Qi Shen, Liang Leng, Dong Zhang, Sha Chen, Yuhua Shi, Zemin Ning, Shilin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25681-6