Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean

  1. Pei-Wen Ong
  2. Ya-Ping Lin
  3. Hung-Wei Chen
  4. Cheng-Yu Lo
  5. Marina Burlyaeva
  6. Thomas Noble
  7. Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
  8. Roland Schafleitner
  9. Margarita Vishnyakova
  10. Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg
  11. Maria G Samsonova
  12. Sergey Nuzhdin
  13. Chau-Ti Ting
  14. Cheng-Ruei Lee  Is a corresponding author
  1. National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  2. AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Taiwan
  3. N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, Russian Federation
  4. Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  5. AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, India
  6. University of Vermont, United States
  7. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
  8. University of Southern California, United States

Abstract

While the domestication process has been investigated in many crops, the detailed route of cultivation range expansion and factors governing this process received relatively little attention. Here using mungbean (Vigna radiata var. radiata) as a test case, we investigated the genomes of more than one thousand accessions to illustrate climatic adaptation’s role in dictating the unique routes of cultivation range expansion. Despite the geographical proximity between South and Central Asia, genetic evidence suggests mungbean cultivation first spread from South Asia to Southeast, East, and finally reached Central Asia. Combining evidence from demographic inference, climatic niche modeling, plant morphology, and records from ancient Chinese sources, we showed that the specific route was shaped by the unique combinations of climatic constraints and farmer practices across Asia, which imposed divergent selection favoring higher yield in the south but short-season and more drought-tolerant accessions in the north. Our results suggest that mungbean did not radiate from the domestication center as expected purely under human activity, but instead the spread of mungbean cultivation is highly constrained by climatic adaptation, echoing the idea that human commensals are more difficult to spread through the south-north axis of continents.

Data availability

Sequences generated in this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA809503. Accession names, GPS coordinates, and NCBI accession numbers of the Vavilov Institute accessions are available under Supplementary file 1. Plant trait data are available at Dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d7wm37q3h. Sequences and accession information of the World Vegetable Centre mini-core and the Australian Diversity Panel collections were obtained from the NCBI BioProject PRJNA645721(Breria et al., 2020) and PRJNA963182 (Noble et al., 2018).

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  1. Pei-Wen Ong

    Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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  2. Ya-Ping Lin

    AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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  3. Hung-Wei Chen

    Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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  4. Cheng-Yu Lo

    Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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  5. Marina Burlyaeva

    N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  6. Thomas Noble

    Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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  7. Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair

    AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Patancheru, India
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  8. Roland Schafleitner

    AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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  9. Margarita Vishnyakova

    N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  10. Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg

    Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States
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  11. Maria G Samsonova

    Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  12. Sergey Nuzhdin

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
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  13. Chau-Ti Ting

    Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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  14. Cheng-Ruei Lee

    Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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    chengrueilee@ntu.edu.tw
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Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (107-2923-B-002-004-MY3)

  • Chau-Ti Ting
  • Cheng-Ruei Lee

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (110-2628-B-002-027)

  • Cheng-Ruei Lee

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (CROP-2019-144)

  • Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
  • Roland Schafleitner

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (110-2313-B-125-001-MY3)

  • Ya-Ping Lin

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (CIM-2014-079)

  • Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
  • Roland Schafleitner

U.S. Department of Agriculture (Multistate Hatch NE1710)

  • Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg

Russian Science Foundation (18-46-08001)

  • Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg
  • Maria G Samsonova

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (075-15-2020-934)

  • Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg
  • Maria G Samsonova

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2023, Ong et al.

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  1. Pei-Wen Ong
  2. Ya-Ping Lin
  3. Hung-Wei Chen
  4. Cheng-Yu Lo
  5. Marina Burlyaeva
  6. Thomas Noble
  7. Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
  8. Roland Schafleitner
  9. Margarita Vishnyakova
  10. Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg
  11. Maria G Samsonova
  12. Sergey Nuzhdin
  13. Chau-Ti Ting
  14. Cheng-Ruei Lee
(2023)
Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean
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