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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 4680, 2019 10 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31615981

ABSTRACT

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.


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Fruit/chemistry , Phoeniceae/genetics , Pigmentation/genetics , Sex Determination Processes/genetics , Alleles , Chromosome Mapping , Codon, Initiator , DNA, Plant/genetics , Fructose , Fruit/genetics , Genome, Plant/genetics , Genome-Wide Association Study , Glucose , Mutation , Phenotype , Polymorphism, Genetic , Retroelements , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Starch , Sucrose , beta-Fructofuranosidase/genetics
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Nat Commun ; 6: 8824, 2015 Nov 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26549859

ABSTRACT

Date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) are the most significant perennial crop in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Here, we present a comprehensive catalogue of approximately seven million single nucleotide polymorphisms in date palms based on whole genome re-sequencing of a collection of 62 cultivars. Population structure analysis indicates a major genetic divide between North Africa and the Middle East/South Asian date palms, with evidence of admixture in cultivars from Egypt and Sudan. Genome-wide scans for selection suggest at least 56 genomic regions associated with selective sweeps that may underlie geographic adaptation. We report candidate mutations for trait variation, including nonsense polymorphisms and presence/absence variation in gene content in pathways for key agronomic traits. We also identify a copia-like retrotransposon insertion polymorphism in the R2R3 myb-like orthologue of the oil palm virescens gene associated with fruit colour variation. This analysis documents patterns of post-domestication diversification and provides a genomic resource for this economically important perennial tree crop.


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DNA, Plant/genetics , Genetic Variation , Genome, Plant/genetics , Phoeniceae/genetics , Africa, Northern , Asia , Base Sequence , Middle East , Molecular Sequence Data , Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide , Selection, Genetic , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Trees/genetics
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