Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
The recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop depended on over half a century of global germplasm exchange
K. T. Muleta, T. Felderhoff, N. Winans…·G. P. Morris
The paper identifies a globally rare East African allele of RMES1 that conferred resistance to sugarcane aphids in Haitian sorghum, demonstrating the importance of global germplasm exchange for evolutionary rescue.
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.abj4633