PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Soon-Chun Jeong
AU  - Jung-Kyung Moon
AU  - Soo-Kwon Park
AU  - Myung-Shin Kim
AU  - Kwanghee Lee
AU  - Soo Rang Lee
AU  - Namhee Jeong
AU  - Man Soo Choi
AU  - Namshin Kim
AU  - Sung-Taeg Kang
AU  - Euiho Park
TI  - Genetic Diversity Patterns and Domestication Origin of Soybean
AID  - 10.1101/369421
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 369421
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/14/369421.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/14/369421.full
AB  - Understanding diversity and evolution of a crop is an essential step to implement a strategy to expand its germplasm base for crop improvement research. Samples intensively collected from Korea, which is a small but central region in the distribution geography of soybean, were genotyped to provide sufficient data to underpin genome-wide population genetic questions. After removing natural hybrids and duplicated or redundant accessions, we obtained a non-redundant set comprising 1,957 domesticated and 1,079 wild accessions to perform population structure analyses. Our analysis demonstrates that while wild soybean germplasm will require additional sampling from diverse indigenous areas to expand the germplasm base, the current domesticated soybean germplasm is saturated in terms of genetic diversity. We then showed that our genome-wide polymorphism map enabled us to detect genetic loci underling flower color, seed-coat color, and domestication syndrome. A representative soybean set consisting of 194 accessions were divided into one domesticated subpopulation and four wild subpopulations that could be traced back to their geographic collection areas. Population genomics analyses suggested that the monophyletic group of domesticated soybeans was originated in eastern Japan. The results were further substantiated by a phylogenetic tree constructed from domestication-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms identified in this study.