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Plant trait relationships are maintained within a major crop species: lack of artificial selection signal and potential for improved agronomic performance

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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19279

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agronomic trait; crop domestication; durum wheat; phenotypic space; plant functional trait; trait-to-performance mapping

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By growing and measuring a unique set of 179 inbred lines of durum wheat, we found that the functional trait space of wheat shares similarities with global cross-species spaces. We also detected the impact of artificial selection on agronomic traits and identified alternative phenotypic combinations that can optimize crop performance.
The exploration of phenotypic spaces of large sets of plant species has considerably increased our understanding of diversification processes in the plant kingdom. Nevertheless, such advances have predominantly relied on interspecific comparisons that hold several limitations.Here, we grew in the field a unique set of 179 inbred lines of durum wheat, Triticum turgidum spp. durum, characterized by variable degrees of artificial selection. We measured aboveground and belowground traits as well as agronomic traits to explore the functional and agronomic trait spaces and to investigate trait-to-agronomic performance relationships.We showed that the wheat functional trait space shared commonalities with global cross-species spaces previously described, with two main axes of variation: a root foraging axis and a slow-fast trade-off axis. Moreover, we detected a clear signature of artificial selection on the variation of agronomic traits, unlike functional traits. Interestingly, we identified alternative phenotypic combinations that can optimize crop performance.Our work brings insightful knowledge about the structure of phenotypic spaces of domesticated plants and the maintenance of phenotypic trade-offs in response to artificial selection, with implications for trade-off-free and multi-criteria selection in plant breeding.

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