A western Sahara centre of domestication inferred from pearl millet genomes
A western Sahara centre of domestication inferred from pearl millet genomes
C. Burgarella,P. Cubry,15 Authors,Y. Vigouroux
2018 · DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0643-y
Nature Ecology & Evolution · 97 Citations
TLDR
This study reconciled genetic and archaeological data for one of the oldest African crops and provided evidence that wild-to-crop gene flow increased cultivated genetic diversity leading to diversity hotspots in western and eastern Sahel and adaptive introgression of 15 genomic regions.