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Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication.

ABSTRACT: Cultivated citrus are selections from, or hybrids of, wild progenitor species whose identities and contributions to citrus domestication remain controversial. Here we sequence and compare citrus genomes--a high-quality reference haploid clementine genome and mandarin, pummelo, sweet-orange and sour-orange genomes--and show that cultivated types derive from two progenitor species. Although cultivated pummelos represent selections from one progenitor species, Citrus maxima, cultivated mandarins are introgressions of C. maxima into the ancestral mandarin species Citrus reticulata. The most widely cultivated citrus, sweet orange, is the offspring of previously admixed individuals, but sour orange is an F1 hybrid of pure C. maxima and C. reticulata parents, thus implying that wild mandarins were part of the early breeding germplasm. A Chinese wild 'mandarin' diverges substantially from C. reticulata, thus suggesting the possibility of other unrecognized wild citrus species. Understanding citrus phylogeny through genome analysis clarifies taxonomic relationships and facilitates sequence-directed genetic improvement.

SUBMITTER: Wu GA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4113729 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication.

Wu G Albert GA Prochnik Simon S Jenkins Jerry J Salse Jerome J Hellsten Uffe U Murat Florent F Perrier Xavier X Ruiz Manuel M Scalabrin Simone S Terol Javier J Takita Marco Aurélio MA Labadie Karine K Poulain Julie J Couloux Arnaud A Jabbari Kamel K Cattonaro Federica F Del Fabbro Cristian C Pinosio Sara S Zuccolo Andrea A Chapman Jarrod J Grimwood Jane J Tadeo Francisco R FR Estornell Leandro H LH Muñoz-Sanz Juan V JV Ibanez Victoria V Herrero-Ortega Amparo A Aleza Pablo P Pérez-Pérez Julián J Ramón Daniel D Brunel Dominique D Luro François F Chen Chunxian C Farmerie William G WG Desany Brian B Kodira Chinnappa C Mohiuddin Mohammed M Harkins Tim T Fredrikson Karin K Burns Paul P Lomsadze Alexandre A Borodovsky Mark M Reforgiato Giuseppe G Freitas-Astúa Juliana J Quetier Francis F Navarro Luis L Roose Mikeal M Wincker Patrick P Schmutz Jeremy J Morgante Michele M Machado Marcos Antonio MA Talon Manuel M Jaillon Olivier O Ollitrault Patrick P Gmitter Frederick F Rokhsar Daniel D

Nature biotechnology 20140608 7

Cultivated citrus are selections from, or hybrids of, wild progenitor species whose identities and contributions to citrus domestication remain controversial. Here we sequence and compare citrus genomes--a high-quality reference haploid clementine genome and mandarin, pummelo, sweet-orange and sour-orange genomes--and show that cultivated types derive from two progenitor species. Although cultivated pummelos represent selections from one progenitor species, Citrus maxima, cultivated mandarins ar ...[more]

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Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication.

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Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication.

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