Historical Routes for Diversification of Domesticated Chickpea Inferred from Landrace Genomics.

ABSTRACT: According to archaeological records, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) was first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years BP. Its subsequent diversification in Middle East, South Asia, Ethiopia, and the Western Mediterranean, however, remains obscure and cannot be resolved using only archeological and historical evidence. Moreover, chickpea has two market types: "desi" and "kabuli," for which the geographic origin is a matter of debate. To decipher chickpea history, we took the genetic data from 421 chickpea landraces unaffected by the green revolution and tested complex historical hypotheses of chickpea migration and admixture on two hierarchical spatial levels: within and between major regions of cultivation. For chickpea migration within regions, we developed popdisp, a Bayesian

SUBMITTER: Igolkina AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10285117 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature