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The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes. Potatoes are a staple ...

1 Vilasrao Deshmukh College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Latur, India 2 Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Four), Division of Life Science, Plant ...

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