Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean

  • Elisa Bellucci,
  • Andrea Benazzo,
  • Chunming Xu,
  • Elena Bitocchi,
  • Monica Rodriguez,
  • Saleh Alseekh,
  • Valerio Di Vittori,
  • Tania Gioia,
  • Kerstin Neumann,
  • Gaia Cortinovis,
  • Giulia Frascarelli,
  • Ester Murube,
  • Emiliano Trucchi,
  • Laura Nanni,
  • Andrea Ariani,
  • Giuseppina Logozzo,
  • Jin Hee Shin,
  • Chaochih Liu,
  • Liang Jiang,
  • Juan José Ferreira,
  • Ana Campa,
  • Giovanna Attene,
  • Peter L. Morrell,
  • Giorgio Bertorelle,
  • Andreas Graner,
  • Paul Gepts,
  • Alisdair R. Fernie,
  • Scott A. Jackson,
  • Roberto Papa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37332-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Common bean has two distinct domestication centers in Mesoamerica and in the Andes. The authors show that the Andean is the first gene pool successfully introduced in Europe and identify signature of pervasive introgression among gene pools and of selection for flowering underlying adaptation.