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Accelerating the Domestication of Wild Plants

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This figure shows how during the domestication of ancestral crops, plants carrying spontaneous mutations in domestication genes were selected for. The same genes can be targeted in wild plants by genome editing, resulting in a rapidly domesticated plant.

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Palmgren et al./<i>Trends in Plant Science</i> 2017

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