Signatures of local adaptation and maladaptation to future climate in wild Zizania latifolia.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change poses challenges to agricultural production and food security. Assessing the adaptive capacity of crop wild relatives to future climate is important for protecting key germplasm resources and breeding new crops. We performed population genomics, genotype-environment association analyses, and genomic offset assessment of Chinese wild rice, Zizania latifolia, a crop wild relative and potential new grain crop, based on 168 individuals from 42 populations. We found two genetic lineages in Z. latifolia, corresponding to the south and north of its range, that diverged during the Late Pleistocene. We also identified lineage-specific positively selected genes associated with flower development and flowering, seed shattering, pathogen defense response and cold tolerance. We fu

SUBMITTER: Zou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11470956 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature