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Soybean domestication: the origin, genetic architecture and molecular bases
Author(s) -
Sedivy Eric J.,
Wu Faqiang,
Hanzawa Yoshie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/nph.14418
Subject(s) - domestication , biology , diversification (marketing strategy) , genome , evolutionary biology , selection (genetic algorithm) , gene , genomics , genetic architecture , crop , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , quantitative trait locus , ecology , computer science , marketing , artificial intelligence , business
Summary Domestication provides an important model for the study of evolution, and information learned from domestication research aids in the continued improvement of crop species. Recent progress in de novo assembly and whole‐genome resequencing of wild and cultivated soybean genomes, in addition to new archeological discoveries, sheds light on the origin of this important crop and provides a clearer view on the modes of artificial selection that drove soybean domestication and diversification. This novel genomic information enables the search for polymorphisms that underlie variation in agronomic traits and highlights genes that exhibit a signature of selection, leading to the identification of a number of candidate genes that may have played important roles in soybean domestication, diversification and improvement. These discoveries provide a novel point of comparison on the evolutionary bases of important agronomic traits among different crop species.