Subject
F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes, F70 - Taxonomie végétale et phytogéographie

Domains
Culture, Foncier

Description
The genius Citrus and related genera are widely distributed across the monsoon region from West Pakistan to north-central China and south through the East Indian Archipelago to New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago, northeastern Australia, New Caledonia, Melanesia and the western Polynesian islands. Native habitats of these genera roughly extends throught this broad area, although the center of origin, timing, dispersal and domestication of citrus species across Southeast Asia remains unclear. The major hindrance to work out these unresolved ambiguities is intimately related to our poor understanding of the complex admixture genealogy of cultivated citrus as recently we revealed. Presumably, the historical association of humans with cultivated citrus that have been genetically fixed through grafting and apomixis, has led to foremost uncertainties on the genetic composition of citrus, a substantial gap precluding the elucidation of citrus ancestry. In this presentation, we combine genome sequence analysis and biogeographic evidence to characterize the genetic diversity and evolution of citrus. This information offers solid insights on the origin, dispersal and domestication of citrus, revealing a new evolutionary paradigm for the genus Citrus. (Texte intégral)

Keywords
Géographie

Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Wu, Guohong Albert, Terol, Javier F., Ibáñez, Victoria, López-García, Antonio, Domingo, Concha, Tadeo, Francisco, Pérez-Román, Estela, Carbonell, Jose, Alonso, Roberto, Curk, Franck, Ollitrault, Patrick, Roose, Mikeal L., Dopazo, Joaquin, Gmitter, Frederick G., Rokhsar, Daniel S., Talon, Manuel

Contributors

Sources
Abstract book Sustainable citriculture: the role of applied knowledge

Relation
http://agritrop.cirad.fr/583545/

Coverage
Melanesia

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