Genetic evidence that Chinese chestnut cultivars in Japan are derived from two divergent genetic structures that originated in China

• Sogo Nishio ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nishios@affrc.go.jp

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3595-3939

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• Shuan Ruan,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Liaoning Institute of Economic Forestry, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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• Yutaka Sawamura,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Shingo Terakami,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Norio Takada,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yukie Takeuchi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Toshihiro Saito,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Eiich Inoue

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami-machi, Ibaraki, Japan

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