Telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies of cultivated and wild soybean provide insights into evolution and domestication under structural variation
Kai‐Hua Jia, Xiaoyan Zhang, Lei-Lei Li, Tian‐Le Shi, Dan Liu, Yongyi Yang, Yun-Zhe Cong, Runfang Li, Yan-Yan Pu, Yongchao Gong, Xue Chen, Yu-Jun Si, Rumei Tian, Zhenya Qian, Hanfeng Ding, Nana Li
Abstract
Soybean (Glycine max) is a critical crop worldwide, renowned as a major source of edible oil and protein. It was domesticated approximately 5000–9000 years ago in China, between latitudes 32°N and 40°N, from its wild progenitor, Glycine soja. In recent years, numerous genome assemblies for both cultivated and wild soybeans have been published, with cultivated soybean genomes even achieving telomere-to-telomere (T2T) completeness (Zhang et al., 2023a, 2023b; Wang et al., 2023; Huang et al., 2024).
Topics & Concepts
DomesticationTelomereStructural variationGenomeBiologyEvolutionary biologyGeneticsVariation (astronomy)DNAGeneAstrophysicsPhysicsSoybean genetics and cultivationNematode management and characterization studiesLegume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis