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Is the domestication bottleneck a myth?
Nature Plantsvolume 5, pages337–338 (2019)Cite this article
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Genome sequences from archaeological sorghum plants raise questions about our understanding of plant domestication.
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Peter Rowley-Conwy, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK
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