The genomic diversification of clonally propagated grapevines
Amanda M. Vondras, Andrea Minio, Barbara Blanco‐Ulate, Rosa Elia Figueroa-Balderas, Michael A. Penn, Yongfeng Zhou, Danelle K. Seymour, Zirou Ye, Dingren Liang, Lucero Espinoza, Michael M. Anderson, M. Andrew Walker, Brandon S. Gaut, Dario Cantù
This study analyzes somatic mutations in clonally propagated grapevines, finding that repetitive intergenic regions drive genome diversification and that deleterious mutations accumulate in clones.
BMC Genomics · Dec 1, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics