Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Taiwan
- N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, Russian Federation
- Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, India
- University of Vermont, United States
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
- 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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The climatic constrains of the historical global spread of mungbeanDryad Digital Repository, doi:10.5061/dryad.d7wm37q3h.
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Vavilov Institute (VIR) mungbean collection - DArTseqNCBI Short Read Archive, PRJNA809503.
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World Vegetable Center Mini Core Collection - DartSeqNCBI Short Read Archive, PRJNA645721.
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Australian mungbean diversity panel collection - DArTseqNCBI Short Read Archive, PRJNA963182.
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Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
Eric Bishop-von-Wettberg
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.
Copyright
© 2023, Ong et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean
eLife 12:e85725.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85725
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