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| Clement,Charles R.; Sousa,Nelcimar Reis; Rodrigues,Doriane Picanço; Astolfi-Filho,Spártaco; Moreno,Yolanda Núñez; Pascual,Vicente Torres; Rodríguez,Francisco Javier Gallego. |
| Although the first inhabitants of western Amazonia domesticated pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes Kunth, Palmae) or peach palm for its fruits, today it is widely planted for its heart-of-palm. Like other domesticates, pejibaye presents a complex hierarchy of landraces developed before the conquest of the Americas. The existence of three landraces (Pará, Solimões, Putumayo) was proposed along the Amazonas and Solimões Rivers, Brazil, based on morphological characteristics. There are some questions remaining about the intermediate landrace being an artifact of the morphometric analysis. AFLPs were used to evaluate the relationships among samples of these putative landraces. DNA was extracted from 99 plants representing 13 populations maintained in the Pejibaye... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Molecular markers; Population differentiation; Genetic resources; Genetic analysis. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162002000400019 |
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