Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication
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), a key crop in early African agriculture. Using whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, we show that cultivated yam was domesticated from a forest species. We infer that the expansion of African yam agriculture started in the Niger River basin. This result, alongside with the origins of African rice and pearl millet, supports the hypothesis that the vicinity of the Niger River was a major cradle of African agriculture.
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The findings, in combination with recent genomic analyses of African rice, African yam, and pearl millet, suggest West Africa as a major cradle of both animal and plant domestication.
“Our findings in combination with recent genomic analyses of African rice (Cubry et al. 2018; Choi et al. 2019), African yam (Scarcelli et al. 2019), and pearl millet suggest West Africa as a major cradle of both animal and plant domestication.”
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- Authors
- Scarcelli, N., Cubry, P., Akakpo, R., Thuillet, A.-C., Obidiegwu, J., Baco, M. N., Otoo, E., Sonké, B., Dansi, A., Djedatin, G., Mariac, C., Couderc, M., Causse, S., Alix, K., Chaïr, H., François, O., & Vigouroux, Y.
- Affiliations
- Diversité, adaptation et développement des plantes (FR)
- National Root Crops Research Institute (NG)
- Université de Parakou (BJ)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (GH)
- Université de Yaoundé I (CM)
- National University of Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (BJ)
- National University of Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics of Abomey, Laboratory BIORAVE, Dassa-Zoumè, Benin.
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Cirad UMR AGAP, F-34398 Montpellier, France.
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Scarcelli, Nora
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2019-05-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- eaaw1947-eaaw1947
- ISSN
- 2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6527260
- OpenAlex
- W2942913815
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 8.86
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- en
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- Funders
- Agropolis Fondation (ARCAD)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (AFRICROP ANR-13-BSV7-0017)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Keywords
- yam, crop domestication, West Africa, Niger River basin, African agriculture, Oryza glaberrima, pearl millet, crop origin
- MeSH terms
- Domestication, Whole Genome Sequencing, Africa, Western, Agriculture, Base Sequence, Oryza, Models, Statistical, Plant Leaves, Crops, Agricultural, Genome, Plant, Evolution, Molecular, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genomics, Dioscorea, Pennisetum, Rivers, Forests
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