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Apple Eden looks east
Wherever the garden of Eden may have been located, most people believe that the development of the modern apple is the result of hybridisations through the centuries of cultivation with wild species growing in Europe and elsewhere. But work carried out at the University of Oxford suggests an entirely different provenance for the apple: a remote and remarkable valley region on the borders of Kaz...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00335-9