Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Sequencing of Chinese castor lines reveals genetic signatures of selection and yield-associated loci

  • Wei Fan,
  • Jianjun Lu,
  • Cheng Pan,
  • Meilian Tan,
  • Qiang Lin,
  • Wanfei Liu,
  • Donghai Li,
  • Lijun Wang,
  • Lianlian Hu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Aimin Wu,
  • Xinxin Yu,
  • Jue Ruan,
  • Jun Yu,
  • Songnian Hu,
  • Xingchu Yan,
  • Shiyou Lü,
  • Peng Cui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11228-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Castor is an important industrial oil crop, but knowledge on its genetic diversity is limited. Here, Fan et al. show geographic pattern of Chinese castors that have developed during domestication by population genetic analyses, and reveal candidate genes associated with agronomically important traits.