Multiple post-domestication origins of kabuli chickpea through allelic variation in a diversification-associated transcription factor

R. Varma Penmetsa, Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia, Emily M. Bergmann, Lisa Vance, Brenna Castro, Mulualem Tamiru Kassa, Birinchi K. Sarma, Subhojit Datta, Andrew Farmer, Jong-Min Baek, Clarice J Coyne, Rajeev Varshney, Eric J. B. von Wettberg, Douglas Cook. (30/9/2016). Multiple post-domestication origins of kabuli chickpea through allelic variation in a diversification-associated transcription factor. New Phytologist, 211 (4), pp. 1440-1451.

Abstract

Crop domestication and subsequent diversification represent adaptations to humanbuilt environments and offer insights into the evolutionary forces that shape phenotypic diversity. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum), a widely cultivated food legume, was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent together with several other socalled founder crops (Zohary et al., 2012). This is evidenced by the Neolithic archeological record (Tanno & Wilcox, 2006) and the prevalence of crop wild relatives in the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Cicer reticulatum, the wild annual Cicer species from which the cultigen is derived...