Complete pan-plastome sequences enable high resolution phylogenetic classification of sugar beet and closely related crop wild relatives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the major source of sugar in moderate climates, sugar-producing beets (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris) have a high economic value. However, the low genetic diversity within cultivated beets requires introduction of new traits, for example to increase their tolerance and resistance attributes - traits that often reside in the crop wild relatives. For this, genetic information of wild beet relatives and their phylogenetic placements to each other are crucial. To answer this need, we sequenced and assembled the complete plastome sequences from a broad species spectrum across the beet genera Beta and Patellifolia, both embedded in the Betoideae (order Caryophyllales). This pan-plastome dataset was then used to determine the wild beet phylogeny in high-resolution.

Result

SUBMITTER: Sielemann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8830136 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature