Fig. 3: Phylogenetic tree of sugar beet and sea beet accessions based on Mash distances.
From: Genomic distances reveal relationships of wild and cultivated beets
The 457 randomly sorted input accessions were divided in two subsets one of which is shown in this figure, the other one in Supplementary Fig. 2. For comparability, 19 randomly selected accessions as well as the two outgroups spinach (Spi olera) and Patellifolia procumbens (Pat pro) are present in both trees. Tree calculation was performed with the Fitch algorithm based on pairwise Mash distances. Leaf colors indicate taxonomic information prior to tree calculation (red: B. v. vulgaris, blue: B. v. maritima, gray: unknown subspecies, black: outgroup). Branch colors indicate B. v. vulgaris (red), sea beets from the Mediterranean area (yellow), and sea beets from Atlantic coasts (blue). Country codes were added according to information in public databases from USDA or IPK. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
