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Genome‐wide sequence information reveals recurrent hybridization among diploid wheat wild relatives
Author(s) -
Bernhardt Nadine,
Brassac Jonathan,
Dong Xue,
Willing EvaMaria,
Poskar C. Hart,
Kilian Benjamin,
Blattner Frank R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the plant journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.058
H-Index - 269
eISSN - 1365-313X
pISSN - 0960-7412
DOI - 10.1111/tpj.14641
Subject(s) - biology , coalescent theory , polyploid , ploidy , genome , triticeae , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , phylogenetic tree , reticulate evolution , plant evolution , aegilops , genetics , lineage (genetic) , gene
Summary Many conflicting hypotheses regarding the relationships among crops and wild species closely related to wheat (the genera Aegilops , Amblyopyrum , and Triticum ) have been postulated. The contribution of hybridization to the evolution of these taxa is intensely discussed. To determine possible causes for this, and provide a phylogeny of the diploid taxa based on genome‐wide sequence information, independent data were obtained from genotyping‐by‐sequencing and a target‐enrichment experiment that returned 244 low‐copy nuclear loci. The data were analyzed using Bayesian, likelihood and coalescent‐based methods. D statistics were used to test if incomplete lineage sorting alone or together with hybridization is the source for incongruent gene trees. Here we present the phylogeny of all diploid species of the wheat wild relatives. We hypothesize that most of the wheat‐group species were shaped by a primordial homoploid hybrid speciation event involving the ancestral Triticum and Am. muticum lineages to form all other species except Ae. speltoides . This hybridization event was followed by multiple introgressions affecting all taxa except Triticum . Mostly progenitors of the extant species were involved in these processes, while recent interspecific gene flow seems insignificant. The composite nature of many genomes of wheat‐group taxa results in complicated patterns of diploid contributions when these lineages are involved in polyploid formation, which is, for example, the case for tetraploid and hexaploid wheats. Our analysis provides phylogenetic relationships and a testable hypothesis for the genome compositions in the basic evolutionary units within the wheat group of Triticeae.