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A western Sahara centre of domestication inferred from pearl millet genomes

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Burgarella C., Cubry P., Kane N., Varshney R.K., Mariac C., Liu X., Shi C., Thudi M., Couderc M., Xu X., Chitikineni A., Scarcelli N., Barnaud A., Rhoné B., Dupuy C., François O., Berthouly-Salazar C., Vigouroux Y.
2018

There have been intense debates over the geographic origin of African crops and agriculture. Here, we used whole-genome sequencing data to infer the domestication origin of pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus). Our results supported an origin in western Sahara, and we dated the onset of cultivated pearl millet expansion in Africa to 4,900 years ago. We provided evidence that wild-to-crop gene flow ...

Génétique et amélioration des plantes

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