期刊
MOLECULAR PLANT
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 9-26出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.12.006
关键词
maize; rice; regulatory and evolutionary mechanism; domestication gene network; de novo domestication
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32025027, 31971892]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0100303]
- Recruitment Program of Global Experts
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- US NSF [IOS 1934865]
This study provides a comprehensive summary of the domestication processes of maize and rice, highlighting their genetic solutions and distinct regulatory and evolutionary mechanisms. It discusses how knowledge from past domestication processes can be used with emerging technologies to improve modern crop breeding and domesticate new crops to meet increasing human demands.
Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization. A greater understanding of crop domestication would provide a theoretical basis for how we could improve current crops and develop new crops to deal with environmental challenges in a sustainable manner. Here, we provide a comprehensive summary of the similarities and differences in the domestication processes of maize and rice, two major staple food crops that feed the world. We propose that maize and rice might have evolved distinct genetic solutions toward domestication. Maize and rice domestication appears to be associated with distinct regulatory and evolutionary mechanisms. Rice domestication tended to select de novo, loss-of-function, coding variation, while maize domestication more frequently favored standing, gain-of-function, regulatory variation. At the gene network level, distinct genetic paths were used to acquire convergent phenotypes in maize and rice domestication, during which different central genes were utilized, orthologous genes played different evolutionary roles, and unique genes or regulatory modules were acquired for establishing new traits. Finally, we discuss how the knowledge gained from past domestication processes, together with emerging technologies, could be exploited to improve modern crop breeding and domesticate new crops to meet increasing human demands.
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