Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean
Author(s)
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 Fernández
Ana Čampa
Giovanna Attene
Peter L. Morrell
Giorgio Bertorelle
Andreas Graner
Paul Gepts
Alisdair R. Fernie
Scott A. Jackson
Roberto Papa
Date Issued
5 de abril de 2023
Type
Article
Volume
14
Issue
1
Start Page
1908
End Page
1908
Abstract
Domesticated crops have been disseminated by humans over vast geographic areas. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was introduced in Europe after 1492. Here, by combining whole-genome profiling, metabolic fingerprinting and phenotypic characterisation, we show that the first common bean cultigens successfully introduced into Europe were of Andean origin, after Francisco Pizarro's expedition to northern Peru in 1529. We reveal that hybridisation, selection and recombination have shaped the genomic diversity of the European common bean in parallel with political constraints. There is clear evidence of adaptive introgression into the Mesoamerican-derived European genotypes, with 44 Andean introgressed genomic segments shared by more than 90% of European accessions and distributed across all chromosomes except PvChr11. Genomic scans for signatures of selection highlight the role of genes relevant to flowering and environmental adaptation, suggesting that introgression has been crucial for the dissemination of this tropical crop to the temperate regions of Europe.
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