Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Origin and adaptation to high altitude of Tibetan semi-wild wheat

  • Weilong Guo,
  • Mingming Xin,
  • Zihao Wang,
  • Yingyin Yao,
  • Zhaorong Hu,
  • Wanjun Song,
  • Kuohai Yu,
  • Yongming Chen,
  • Xiaobo Wang,
  • Panfeng Guan,
  • Rudi Appels,
  • Huiru Peng,
  • Zhongfu Ni,
  • Qixin Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18738-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Mechanism of high altitude adaptation of wheat remains unknown. Here, the authors assemble the draft genome of a Tibetan semi-wild wheat accession and resequence 245 wheat accessions to reveal that Tibetan semi-wild wheat has been de-domesticated from local landraces to adapt to high altitude.