Journal article
Genetic Patterns of Domestication in Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) and Wild Cajanus Relatives
PLoS ONE, Vol.7(6), Art. e39563
2012
Abstract
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is an annual or short-lived perennial food legume of acute regional importance, providing significant protein to the human diet in less developed regions of Asia and Africa. Due to its narrow genetic base, pigeonpea improvement is increasingly reliant on introgression of valuable traits from wild forms, a practice that would benefit from knowledge of its domestication history and relationships to wild species. Here we use 752 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) derived from 670 low copy orthologous genes to clarify the evolutionary history of pigeonpea (79 accessions) and its wild relatives (31 accessions). We identified three well-supported lineages that are geographically clustered and congruent with previous nuclear and plastid sequence-based phylogenies. Among all species analyzed Cajanus cajanifolius is the most probable progenitor of cultivated pigeonpea. Multiple lines of evidence suggest recent gene flow between cultivated and non-cultivated forms, as well as historical gene flow between diverged but sympatric species. Evidence supports that primary domestication occurred in India, with a second and more recent nested population bottleneck focused in tropical regions that is the likely consequence of pigeonpea breeding. We find abundant allelic variation and genetic diversity among the wild relatives, with the exception of wild species from Australia for which we report a third bottleneck unrelated to domestication within India. Domesticated C. cajan possess 75% less allelic diversity than the progenitor clade of wild Indian species, indicating a severe “domestication bottleneck” during pigeonpea domestication.
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- Title
- Genetic Patterns of Domestication in Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) and Wild Cajanus Relatives
- Authors/Creators
- S-H Shiu (Author/Creator)M.T. Kassa (Author/Creator) - University of California, DavisR.V. Penmetsa (Author/Creator) - University of California, DavisN. Carrasquilla-Garcia (Author/Creator) - University of California, DavisB.K. Sarma (Author/Creator) - Banaras Hindu UniversityS. Datta (Author/Creator) - University of California, DavisH.D. Upadhyaya (Author/Creator) - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid TropicsR.K. Varshney (Author/Creator) - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid TropicsE.J.B. von Wettberg (Author/Creator)D.R. Cook (Author/Creator) - University of California, Davis
- Publication Details
- PLoS ONE, Vol.7(6), Art. e39563
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Identifiers
- 991005540053907891
- Copyright
- © 2012 Kassa et al.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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