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Reducing genetic diversity under domestication is another aspect of favoring characters which are better adapted to cultivation. The elimination of genetic variation was automatic rather than by human selection, and random events in the form of genetic drift. Maintaining genetic variation in individual crop plants resulted from the habit of traditional farmers of growing several types of the same crop either in the same field, or in different plots. Another major source is geographical variation.
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Ladizinsky, G. (1998). The course of reducing and maintaining genetic diversity under domestication. In: Plant Evolution under Domestication. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4429-2_3
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