Going New Places: Successful Adaptation and Genomic Integrity of Grain Amaranth in India.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change will impact the geographic distribution of plant populations. The rapid changes will require range shifts and the adaptation of plants. The recent global spread of crops across different continents shows how plants successfully coped with drastically different environments. One such spread was the introduction of the nutritious pseudocereal amaranth to India. Three different species of grain amaranth have been domesticated in different regions of the Americas. The crops have later been introduced to India, likely within the last five centuries, where it is now grown across the subcontinent. We used whole genome sequencing data of over 300 accessions to study the introduction of grain amaranth to India to understand the factors, allowing the successful establishment of

SUBMITTER: Singh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12204849 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature