Population comparative genomics discovers gene gain and loss during grapevine domestication.

ABSTRACT: Plant domestication are evolutionary experiments conducted by early farmers since thousands years ago, during which the crop wild progenitors are artificially selected for desired agronomic traits along with dramatic genomic variation in the course of moderate to severe bottlenecks. However, previous investigations are mainly focused on small-effect variants, while changes in gene contents are rarely investigated due to the lack of population-level assemblies for both the crop and its wild relatives. Here, we applied comparative genomic analyses to discover gene gain and loss during grapevine domestication using long-read assemblies of representative population samples for both domesticated grapevines (V. vinifera ssp. vinifera) and their wild progenitors (V. vinifera ssp. sylvestris). Onl

SUBMITTER: Long Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11142336 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature