Fonio millet genome unlocks African orphan crop diversity for agriculture in a changing climate
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389030%3A_____%2F20%3A00532928" target="_blank" >RIV/61389030:_____/20:00532928 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18329-4" target="_blank" >http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18329-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18329-4" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-020-18329-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fonio millet genome unlocks African orphan crop diversity for agriculture in a changing climate
Original language description
Sustainable food production in the context of climate change necessitates diversification of agriculture and a more efficient utilization of plant genetic resources. Fonio millet (Digitaria exilis) is an orphan African cereal crop with a great potential for dryland agriculture. Here, we establish high-quality genomic resources to facilitate fonio improvement through molecular breeding. These include a chromosome-scale reference assembly and deep re-sequencing of 183 cultivated and wild Digitaria accessions, enabling insights into genetic diversity, population structure, and domestication. Fonio diversity is shaped by climatic, geographic, and ethnolinguistic factors. Two genes associated with seed size and shattering showed signatures of selection. Most known domestication genes from other cereal models however have not experienced strong selection in fonio, providing direct targets to rapidly improve this crop for agriculture in hot and dry environments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000827" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000827: Plants as a tool for sustainable global development</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Communications
ISSN
2041-1723
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
4488
UT code for WoS article
000597167700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090393492