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Peeters NGJ, Vergauwen D, De Smet I. Let's go bananas with paintings. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 28:1195-1197. [PMID: 37652757 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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We tell the story of the complex history and global distribution of the very popular banana and illustrate this with amazing depictions by artists and scientists. In addition, we discuss the major changes that occurred during domestication and the risks associated with maintaining a monoculture.
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- Research and Documentation Centre (CEDOM-MADOC), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium; VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium.
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Martin G, Cottin A, Baurens FC, Labadie K, Hervouet C, Salmon F, Paulo-de-la-Reberdiere N, Van den Houwe I, Sardos J, Aury JM, D'Hont A, Yahiaoui N. Interspecific introgression patterns reveal the origins of worldwide cultivated bananas in New Guinea. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 113:802-818. [PMID: 36575919 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Hybridizations between Musa species and subspecies, enabled by their transport via human migration, were proposed to have played an important role in banana domestication. We exploited sequencing data of 226 Musaceae accessions, including wild and cultivated accessions, to characterize the inter(sub)specific hybridization pattern that gave rise to cultivated bananas. We identified 11 genetic pools that contributed to cultivars, including two contributors of unknown origin. Informative alleles for each of these genetic pools were pinpointed and used to obtain genome ancestry mosaics of accessions. Diploid and triploid cultivars had genome mosaics involving three up to possibly seven contributors. The simplest mosaics were found for some diploid cultivars from New Guinea, combining three contributors, i.e., banksii and zebrina representing Musa acuminata subspecies and, more unexpectedly, the New Guinean species Musa schizocarpa. Breakpoints of M. schizocarpa introgressions were found to be conserved between New Guinea cultivars and the other analyzed diploid and triploid cultivars. This suggests that plants bearing these M. schizocarpa introgressions were transported from New Guinea and gave rise to currently cultivated bananas. Many cultivars showed contrasted mosaics with predominant ancestry from their geographical origin across Southeast Asia to New Guinea. This revealed that further diversification occurred in different Southeast Asian regions through hybridization with other Musa (sub)species, including two unknown ancestors that we propose to be M. acuminata ssp. halabanensis and a yet to be characterized M. acuminata subspecies. These results highlighted a dynamic crop formation process that was initiated in New Guinea, with subsequent diversification throughout Southeast Asia.
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- Guillaume Martin
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-97130 Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe, France
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- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, CRB-PT, F-97170 Roujol Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
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- Bioversity International, Willem De Croylaan 42, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Bioversity International, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, 34397, Montpellier, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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Riggins CW. Crop diversity: Breadfruit's checkered past bears fruit for food security. Curr Biol 2023; 33:R75-R77. [PMID: 36693314 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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New interdisciplinary research on breadfruit helps reconcile cultivar names with genotypic and phenotypic diversity across time, continents, and cultures. The findings will advance breeding and conservation initiatives for this underutilized crop, but also highlight methodological challenges commonplace in crop evolutionary studies.
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- Chance W Riggins
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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