A draft genome of sweet cherry (Prunus aviumL.) reveals genome-wide and local effects of domestication
- 1 August 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Plant Journal
- Vol. 103 (4), 1420-1432
- https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14809
Abstract
Sweet cherry (Prunus aviumL.) trees are both economically important fruit crops but also important components of natural forest ecosystems in Europe, Asia and Africa. Wild and domesticated trees currently coexist in the same geographic areas with important questions arising on their historical relationships. Little is known about the effects of the domestication process on the evolution of the sweet cherry genome. We assembled and annotated the genome of the cultivated variety "Big Star*" and assessed the genetic diversity among 97 sweet cherry accessions representing three different stages in the domestication and breeding process (wild trees, landraces and modern varieties). The genetic diversity analysis revealed significant genome-wide losses of variation among the three stages and supports a clear distinction between wild and domesticated trees, with only limited gene flow being detected between wild trees and domesticated landraces. We identified 11 domestication sweeps and five breeding sweeps covering, respectively, 11.0 and 2.4 Mb of theP. aviumgenome. A considerable fraction of the domestication sweeps overlaps with those detected in the related species,Prunus persica(peach), indicating that artificial selection during domestication may have acted independently on the same regions and genes in the two species. We detected 104 candidate genes in sweep regions involved in different processes, such as the determination of fruit texture, the regulation of flowering and fruit ripening and the resistance to pathogens. The signatures of selection identified will enable future evolutionary studies and provide a valuable resource for genetic improvement and conservation programs in sweet cherry.This publication has 70 references indexed in Scilit:
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