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Article|01 Apr 2022|OPEN
Haplotype analyses reveal novel insights into tomato history and domestication driven by long-distance migrations and latitudinal adaptations
Jose Blanca1 , , David Sanchez-Matarredona1 , Peio Ziarsolo1 , Javier Montero-Pau1 , Esther van der Knaap2,3 and Ma José Díez1 , Joaquín Cañizares,1
1Instituto Universitario de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana, COMAV, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia 46022, Spain
2Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
3Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
*Corresponding author. E-mail: jblanca@upv.es

Horticulture Research 9,
Article number: uhac030 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhac030
Views: 959

Received: 05 Aug 2021
Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Accepted: 14 Jan 2022
Published online: 01 Apr 2022

Abstract

A novel haplotype-based approach that uses Procrustes analysis and automatic classification was used to provide further insights into tomato history and domestication. Agrarian societies domesticated species of interest by introducing complex genetic modifications. For tomatoes, two species, one of which had two botanical varieties, are thought to be involved in its domestication: the fully wild Solanum pimpinellifolium (SP), the wild and semi-domesticated Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme (SLC) and the cultivated S. l. var. lycopersicum (SLL). The Procrustes approach showed that SP evolved into SLC during a gradual migration from the Peruvian deserts to the Mexican rainforests and that Peruvian and Ecuadorian SLC populations were the result of more recent hybridizations. Our model was supported by independent evidence, including ecological data from the accession collection site and morphological data. Furthermore, we showed that photosynthesis-, and flowering time-related genes were selected during the latitudinal migrations.