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dc.contributor.authorMittell, Elizabeth A.
dc.contributor.authorCobbold, Christina A.
dc.contributor.authorIjaz, Umer Zeeshan
dc.contributor.authorKilbride, Elizabeth A.
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Karen A.
dc.contributor.authorMable, Barbara K.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02T11:30:01Z
dc.date.available2020-10-02T11:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-24
dc.identifier.citationMittell , 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/ece3.6821en
dc.identifier.issn2045-7758
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 270483534
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 47cf7855-d64b-4907-b531-a59439d65879
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85091376709
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000572151100001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20715
dc.descriptionEAM 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.abstractThere 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.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEcology and Evolutionen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectBrassica oleraceaen
dc.subjectCrop wild relativesen
dc.subjectDomesticationen
dc.subjectEnvironment–genotype associationsen
dc.subjectFeral populationsen
dc.subjectIsolation by distanceen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematicsen
dc.subjectEcologyen
dc.subjectNature and Landscape Conservationen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleFeral populations of Brassica oleracea along Atlantic coasts in western Europeen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6821
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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