Rodrigo Nicolao

Reticulate History of Southern South American Wild Potatoes: Recurrent Hybridization, Cytonuclear Discordance, and Phylogenetic Placement of Solanum malmeanum

Hybridization is a powerful process in plant evolution generating reticulate patterns of speciation, introgression, and chloroplast capture. In the Petota clade of Solanum, which spans cultivated and wild potatoes, these processes cause much of the taxonomic complexity of the group. We examined the evolutionary history...