Agronomy and Horticulture Department

 

ORCID IDs

D. L. Hyten

Date of this Version

2006

Citation

PNAS November 7, 2006 vol. 103 no. 45, 16666–16671

Comments

© 2006 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Abstract

Soybean has undergone several genetic bottlenecks. These include domestication in Asia to produce numerous Asian landraces, introduction of relatively few landraces to North America, and then selective breeding over the past 75 years. It is presumed that these three human-mediated events have reduced genetic diversity. We sequenced 111 fragments from 102 genes in four soybean populations representing the populations before and after genetic bottlenecks. We show that soybean has lost many rare sequence variants and has undergone numerous allele frequency changes throughout its history. Although soybean genetic diversity has been eroded by human selection after domestication, it is notable that modern cultivars have retained 72% of the sequence diversity present in the Asian landraces but lost 79% of rare alleles (frequency

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