Location: Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research
Title: Unraveling the sorghum domesticationAuthor
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Li, Xianran |
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YU, JIANMING - Iowa State University |
Submitted to: Molecular Plant
Publication Type: Literature Review Publication Acceptance Date: 3/15/2022 Publication Date: 3/15/2022 Citation: Li, X., Yu, J. 2022. Unraveling the sorghum domestication. Molecular Plant. 15:1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.03.006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.03.006 Interpretive Summary: Population genomics offer an unprecedented power to gain insights of crop domestication. This literature review summarized findings from recently sorghum population genomics studies. In comparison of other cereal domestication, unique surprising phenomena have been unveiled underlying the complicated sorghum domestication. Technical Abstract: Sorghum, the fifth major cereal crop, has a complex domestication history. It can be classified into five subspecies/races, or four end-use groups. The naturally occurred wild-domesticated hybridization and gene flows added new layers into the complexity. Recently studies from analyzing the genome-wide SNPs not only unveiled the surprising pattens of genomic footprints from this complex evolution, but also raised new interesting questions need further investigations. |