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, R. Walstead, J. R. Charles, J. S. Armstrong, S. Mamidi, C. Plott, J. P. Vogel, P. G. Lemaux, T. C. Mockler, J. Grimwood, J. Schmutz, G. Pressoir, 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.
bioRxiv · May 11, 2021Evolutionary Biology