Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Population genomics of apricots unravels domestication history and adaptive events

  • Alexis Groppi,
  • Shuo Liu,
  • Amandine Cornille,
  • Stéphane Decroocq,
  • Quynh Trang Bui,
  • David Tricon,
  • Corinne Cruaud,
  • Sandrine Arribat,
  • Caroline Belser,
  • William Marande,
  • Jérôme Salse,
  • Cécile Huneau,
  • Nathalie Rodde,
  • Wassim Rhalloussi,
  • Stéphane Cauet,
  • Benjamin Istace,
  • Erwan Denis,
  • Sébastien Carrère,
  • Jean-Marc Audergon,
  • Guillaume Roch,
  • Patrick Lambert,
  • Tetyana Zhebentyayeva,
  • Wei-Sheng Liu,
  • Olivier Bouchez,
  • Céline Lopez-Roques,
  • Rémy-Félix Serre,
  • Robert Debuchy,
  • Joseph Tran,
  • Patrick Wincker,
  • Xilong Chen,
  • Pierre Pétriacq,
  • Aurélien Barre,
  • Macha Nikolski,
  • Jean-Marc Aury,
  • Albert Glenn Abbott,
  • Tatiana Giraud,
  • Véronique Decroocq

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24283-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The evolutionary and domestication history of apricots is poorly understood. Here, the authors provide four apricot high-quality genome assemblies, the genomes of 578 accessions from natural and cultivated populations, and show that Chinese and European apricots constitute two different gene pools, resulting from independent domestication events.