Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa

IM Grimaldi, TR Van Andel… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In his 1959 book, Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History, George P. Murdock
suggested that a Malaysian complex of crops dispersed to Africa in ancient times across the …

Genomics and transcriptomics reveal genetic contribution to population diversity and specific traits in coconut

K Yousefi, SNA Abdullah, MAM Hatta, KL Ling - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coconut is an economically important palm species with a long history of human use. It has
applications in various food, nutraceuticals, and cosmetic products, and there has been …

De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly of Dwarf Coconut (Cocos nucifera L. 'Catigan Green Dwarf') Provides Insights into Genomic Variation Between Coconut …

DV Lantican, SR Strickler, AO Canama… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We report the first whole genome sequence (WGS) assembly and annotation of a dwarf
coconut variety,'Catigan Green Dwarf'(CATD). The genome sequence was generated using …

Genome-wide diversity analysis to infer population structure and linkage disequilibrium among Colombian coconut germplasm

JM Muñoz-Pérez, GP Cañas, L López, T Arias - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic diversity and relatedness of accessions for coconut growing in Colombia was
unknown until this study. Here we develop single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) along …

Analysis of genetic diversity and population structure in worldwide coconut germplasm (Cocos nucifera L.) using microsatellite markers

R Sudha, MK Rajesh, V Niral, K Samsudeen, S Shil… - Scientia …, 2023 - Elsevier
A collection of 96 palms, representing 16 diverse coconut accessions from the International
Coconut Genebank for South Asia and the Middle East (ICG-SAME), Kidu, India, was …

Mining and validation of novel genoty**-by-sequencing (GBS)-based simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and their application for the estimation of the genetic …

K Riangwong, S Wanchana, W Aesomnuk… - Horticulture …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is an important economic crop in tropical countries. However,
the lack of a complete reference genome and the limitations of usable DNA markers hinder …

Characterization of morphological and fruit quality traits of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) germplasm

R Zhang, H Cao, C Sun, JJJ Martin - HortScience, 2021 - journals.ashs.org
The evaluation and identification of germplasm resources is an indispensable step in the
breeding processes and have important roles in the selection and improvement of new …

Precocity of fruiting in Pinus yunnanensis revealed by common garden experiment and association analysis with molecular markers

Z Li, Y Miao, C Gao, J Li, L Wang, K Cui - Industrial Crops and Products, 2024 - Elsevier
Shortening the growth cycle and maintaining high yields are the goals pursued by all
breeders. Under the distinct ecological conditions of tropical and rainy and dry seasons …

Integrative multivariate analysis of agro-chemical and genotypic traits in Indian catmint (Nepeta cataria L.) half-sib populations

T Chaturvedi, Y Pandey, AK Gupta, RK Srivastava… - Fitoterapia, 2025 - Elsevier
This investigation conducted a comprehensive multivariate analysis on thirty half-sib
populations of Nepeta cataria L., derived from natural populations based on oil yield. The …

Genetic diversity of Ziziphus mauritiana germplasm based on SSR markers and ploidy level estimation

T Liang, W Sun, H Ren, I Ahmad, N Vu, Maryam… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion A set of reliable SSR markers were developed for Ziziphus mauritiana. The
genetic relationship of Z. mauritiana germplasms was generally consistent with their …