European spud history unthreaded


I could blog about the recent paper which used sequencing of old herbarium specimens, including this one collected by Darwin to trace the genetic history of potatoes in Europe. But I think I’ll let one of the authors do it instead, here.

If you don’t like Twitter, you can see the thread unspooled without going anywhere near it.

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