Independent introductions and admixtures have contributed to adaptation of European maize and its American counterparts - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue PLoS Genetics Année : 2017

Independent introductions and admixtures have contributed to adaptation of European maize and its American counterparts

Clementine Vitte

Résumé

Through the local selection of landraces, humans have guided the adaptation of crops to a vast range of climatic and ecological conditions. This is particularly true of maize, which was domesticated in a restricted area of Mexico but now displays one of the broadest cultivated ranges worldwide. Here, we sequenced 67 genomes with an average sequencing depth of 18x to document routes of introduction, admixture and selective history of European maize and its American counterparts. To avoid the confounding effects of recent breeding, we targeted germplasm (lines) directly derived from landraces. Among our lines, we discovered 22,294,769 SNPs and between 0.9% to 4.1% residual heterozygosity. Using a segmentation method, we identified 6,978 segments of unexpectedly high rate of heterozygosity. These segments point to genes potentially involved in inbreeding depression, and to a lesser extent to the presence of structural variants. Genetic structuring and inferences of historical splits revealed 5 genetic groups and two independent European introductions, with modest bottleneck signatures. Our results further revealed admixtures between distinct sources that have contributed to the establishment of 3 groups at intermediate latitudes in North America and Europe. We combined differentiation-and diversity-based statistics to identify both genes and gene networks displaying strong signals of selection. These include genes/ gene networks involved in flowering time, drought and cold tolerance, plant defense and starch properties. Overall, our results provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of European maize and highlight a major role of admixture in environmental adaptation, paralleling recent findings in humans.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
2017_Brandenburg_PLOS genetics_1.pdf (3.67 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte
Loading...

Dates et versions

hal-01605143 , version 1 (26-05-2020)

Licence

Paternité

Identifiants

Citer

Jean-Tristan Brandenburg, Tristan Mary, Guillem Rigaill, Sarah J. Hearne, Hélène Corti, et al.. Independent introductions and admixtures have contributed to adaptation of European maize and its American counterparts. PLoS Genetics, 2017, 13 (3), pp.e1006666. ⟨10.1371/journal.pgen.1006666⟩. ⟨hal-01605143⟩
138 Consultations
27 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More