Construction of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa: Lecythidaceae) cambium normalized cDNA libraries for 454 next generation sequencing
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Background The Brazil nut, Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae), is the most important non-timber forest resource in the Amazonian biome, where nuts for the international trade are exclusively wild-collected. The monotypic genus possesses a discontinuous distribution and is thought to have rapidly and recently radiated south and westward from a northern/eastern Amazonian origin, largely as a result of ancient human activity [1]. It’s genetic variability is currently thought to be low and conserved in one or very few populations [2], and in order to better understand the population genetics of this tree, there is a need for additional, or more informative, molecular markers than is currently available.
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