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Feral populations of Brassica oleracea along Atlantic coasts in western Europe
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dc.contributor.author | Mittell, Elizabeth A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cobbold, Christina A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan | |
dc.contributor.author | Kilbride, Elizabeth A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Karen A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mable, Barbara K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-02T11:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-02T11:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-24 | |
dc.identifier | 270483534 | |
dc.identifier | 47cf7855-d64b-4907-b531-a59439d65879 | |
dc.identifier | 85091376709 | |
dc.identifier | 000572151100001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mittell , E A , Cobbold , C A , Ijaz , U Z , Kilbride , E A , Moore , K A & Mable , B K 2020 , ' Feral populations of Brassica oleracea along Atlantic coasts in western Europe ' , Ecology and Evolution , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6821 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-7758 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20715 | |
dc.description | EAM was funded by a University of Glasgow Lord Kelvin Adam Smith PhD studentship; UZI was funded by a NERC Independent Research Fellowship (NE/L011956); CAC is supported by the BBSRC (BB/P004202/1); KAM utilized equipment funded by the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (WT097835MF), Wellcome Trust Multi‐User Equipment Award (WT101650MA), and BBSRC LOLA award (BB/K003240/1). Part of the work was supported by a British Society for Plant Pathology summer studentship, and grants from the Botanical Research Fund, and the Blodwen Lloyd Bins trust funded through the Glasgow Natural History Society. | en |
dc.description.abstract | There has been growing emphasis on the role that crop wild relatives might play in supporting highly selected agriculturally valuable species in the face of climate change. In species that were domesticated many thousands of years ago, distinguishing wild populations from escaped feral forms can be challenging, but reintroducing variation from either source could supplement current cultivated forms. For economically important cabbages (Brassicaceae: Brassica oleracea), “wild” populations occur throughout Europe but little is known about their genetic variation or potential as resources for breeding more resilient crop varieties. The main aim of this study was to characterize the population structure of geographically isolated wild cabbage populations along the coasts of the UK and Spain, including the Atlantic range edges. Double-digest restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing was used to sample individual cabbage genomes, assess the similarity of plants from 20 populations, and explore environment–genotype associations across varying climatic conditions. Interestingly, there were no indications of isolation by distance; several geographically close populations were genetically more distinct from each other than to distant populations. Furthermore, several distant populations shared genetic ancestry, which could indicate that they were established by escapees of similar source cultivars. However, there were signals of local adaptation to different environments, including a possible relationship between genetic diversity and soil pH. Overall, these results highlight wild cabbages in the Atlantic region as an important genetic resource worthy of further research into their relationship with existing crop varieties. | |
dc.format.extent | 16 | |
dc.format.extent | 1283048 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ecology and Evolution | en |
dc.subject | Brassica oleracea | en |
dc.subject | Crop wild relatives | en |
dc.subject | Domestication | en |
dc.subject | Environment–genotype associations | en |
dc.subject | Feral populations | en |
dc.subject | Isolation by distance | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | en |
dc.subject | Ecology | en |
dc.subject | Nature and Landscape Conservation | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | Feral populations of Brassica oleracea along Atlantic coasts in western Europe | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/ece3.6821 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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