Journal
DNA RESEARCH
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 153-167Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dst047
Keywords
domestication; resequencing; soybean; variation
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- Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program [PJ008124]
- Rural Development Administration
- National Research Foundation of Korea grant - Korea government [20110030770]
- Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research Initiative Program
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Despite the importance of soybean as a major crop, genome-wide variation and evolution of cultivated soybeans are largely unknown. Here, we catalogued genome variation in an annual soybean population by high-depth resequencing of 10 cultivated and 6 wild accessions and obtained 3.87 million high-quality single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) after excluding the sites with missing data in any accession. Nuclear genome phylogeny supported a single origin for the cultivated soybeans. We identified 10-fold longer linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the wild soybean relative to wild maize and rice. Despite the small population size, the long LD and large SNP data allowed us to identify 206 candidate domestication regions with significantly lower diversity in the cultivated, but not in the wild, soybeans. Some of the genes in these candidate regions were associated with soybean homologues of canonical domestication genes. However, several examples, which are likely specific to soybean or eudicot crop plants, were also observed. Consequently, the variation data identified in this study should be valuable for breeding and for identifying agronomically important genes in soybeans. However, the long LD of wild soybeans may hinder pinpointing causal gene(s) in the candidate regions.
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