Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Diversity analysis of 80,000 wheat accessions reveals consequences and opportunities of selection footprints

  • Carolina Sansaloni,
  • Jorge Franco,
  • Bruno Santos,
  • Lawrence Percival-Alwyn,
  • Sukhwinder Singh,
  • Cesar Petroli,
  • Jaime Campos,
  • Kate Dreher,
  • Thomas Payne,
  • David Marshall,
  • Benjamin Kilian,
  • Iain Milne,
  • Sebastian Raubach,
  • Paul Shaw,
  • Gordon Stephen,
  • Jason Carling,
  • Carolina Saint Pierre,
  • Juan Burgueño,
  • José Crosa,
  • HuiHui Li,
  • Carlos Guzman,
  • Zakaria Kehel,
  • Ahmed Amri,
  • Andrzej Kilian,
  • Peter Wenzl,
  • Cristobal Uauy,
  • Marianne Banziger,
  • Mario Caccamo,
  • Kevin Pixley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18404-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genebanks hold comprehensive collections of wild species, wild relatives, and landraces that are useful for genetic improvement. Here, the authors report the genotype of nearly 80,000 wheat accessions using DArTseq technology to show the less explored genetic diversity.