Unraveling the Complex Hybrid Ancestry and Domestication History of Cultivated Strawberry.

ABSTRACT: Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is one of our youngest domesticates, originating in early eighteenth-century Europe from spontaneous hybrids between wild allo-octoploid species (Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana). The improvement of horticultural traits by 300 years of breeding has enabled the global expansion of strawberry production. Here, we describe the genomic history of strawberry domestication from the earliest hybrids to modern cultivars. We observed a significant increase in heterozygosity among interspecific hybrids and a decrease in heterozygosity among domesticated descendants of those hybrids. Selective sweeps were found across the genome in early and modern phases of domestication-59-76% of the selectively swept genes originated in the three less dominan

SUBMITTER: Hardigan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8136507 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature