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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9838
Keywords
chloroplast evolution; conservation genetics; cotton; crop wild relatives; domestication
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By assembling chloroplast genomes of 23 wild, landraces, and breeding lines, we found that the evolutionary history of cotton in Mexico involves multiple events of introgression and genetic divergence. The Mexican landraces were found to arise from multiple wild populations, and their chloroplast organizations were preserved. However, genetic diversity decreases as a consequence of domestication, mainly in transgene-introgressed individuals, highlighting the importance of biosecurity and agrobiodiversity conservation.
Several Mesoamerican crops constitute wild-to-domesticated complexes generated by multiple initial domestication events, and continuous gene flow among crop populations and between these populations and their wild relatives. It has been suggested that the domestication of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) started in the northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula, from where it spread to other regions inside and outside of Mexico. We tested this hypothesis by assembling chloroplast genomes of 23 wild, landraces, and breeding lines (transgene-introgressed and conventional). The phylogenetic analysis showed that the evolutionary history of cotton in Mexico involves multiple events of introgression and genetic divergence. From this, we conclude that Mexican landraces arose from multiple wild populations. Our results also revealed that their structural and functional chloroplast organizations had been preserved. However, genetic diversity decreases as a consequence of domestication, mainly in transgene-introgressed (TI) individuals (pi = 0.00020, 0.00001, 0.00016, 0, and 0, of wild, TI-wild, landraces, TI-landraces, and breeding lines, respectively). We identified homologous regions that differentiate wild from domesticated plants and indicate a relationship among the samples. A decrease in genetic diversity associated with transgene introgression in cotton was identified for the first time, and our outcomes are therefore relevant to both biosecurity and agrobiodiversity conservation.
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