Indications for Three Independent Domestication Events for the Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) and New Insights into the Origin of Tea Germplasm in China and India Revealed by Nuclear Microsatellites

• M. K. Meegahakumbura,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China, Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka

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• M. C. Wambulwa,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

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• K. K. Thapa,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Dinhata College, Dinhata– 736135, West Bengal, India

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• M. M. Li,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China

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• M. Möller,

  Affiliation Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• J. C. Xu,

  Affiliation Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies and World Agroforestry Centre East and Central Asia Regional Office, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China

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• J. B. Yang,

  Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China

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• B. Y. Liu,

  Affiliation Tea Research Institute of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Menghai 666201, China

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• S. Ranjitkar,

  Affiliation Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies and World Agroforestry Centre East and Central Asia Regional Office, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China

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• J. Liu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China

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• D. Z. Li ,

  * E-mail: gaolm@mail.kib.ac.cn (LMG); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China

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• L. M. Gao

  * E-mail: gaolm@mail.kib.ac.cn (LMG); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, China

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