| Autor: |
Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Ilia J. Leitch, Ulises Rosas, Khaled M. Hazzouri, Jayson Talag, Marc Lebrun, Rod A. Wing, David Kudrna, Michael D. Purugganan, Michael I. Dhar, Khaled M. A. Amiri, Robyn F. Powell, Seunghee Lee, Jianwei Zhang, Robert Krueger, Zoë Fresquez, Jonathan M. Flowers, Dario Copetti, Alain Lemansour, Sylvie Ferrand, Khaled Masmoudi |
| Přispěvatelé: |
University of Zurich, Purugganan, Michael D |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2019)
Nature Communications
Nature Communications, 10 (1) |
| ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
| Popis: |
Date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) are an important fruit crop of arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Despite its importance, few genomic resources exist for date palms, hampering evolutionary genomic studies of this perennial species. Here we report an improved long-read genome assembly for P. dactylifera that is 772.3 Mb in length, with contig N50 of 897.2 Kb, and use this to perform genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the sex determining region and 21 fruit traits. We find a fruit color GWAS at the R2R3-MYB transcription factor VIRESCENS gene and identify functional alleles that include a retrotransposon insertion and start codon mutation. We also find a GWAS peak for sugar composition spanning deletion polymorphisms in multiple linked invertase genes. MYB transcription factors and invertase are implicated in fruit color and sugar composition in other crops, demonstrating the importance of parallel evolution in the evolutionary diversification of domesticated species.
Nature Communications, 10 (1)
ISSN:2041-1723 |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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