Claim · model-written summary
Ancestral black walnut populations kept diverging as climate oscillated, preceding South American colonization.
- Taxon
- black walnuts
Juglans nigrat0 - Outcome
- ancestral populations kept diverginge0
- Direction
- diverginge0
- Qualifier
- climate oscillatede0
- Setting
- South Americae0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“As the climate oscillated, these ancestral populations kept diverging, laying the basis for their colonization of South America.”
t0“black walnuts”
Title
Hang Ye; Hengzhao Liu; Huijuan Zhou; et al. The Plant Genome 2025. doi:10.1002/tpg2.70172
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Method / resource The study constructed a high-density map of genomic variation across 108 Rhysocaryon accessions.
- Observation The 108 Rhysocaryon accessions were delimited into four groups despite introgression.
- Observation Black walnuts may have diversified about 28.74 million years ago in the late Oligocene.
- Observation The clade containing Juglans hindsii and Juglans californica diverged earliest.
- Observation Juglans microcarpa may be a hybrid descendant of Juglans nigra and J. hindsii.
- Association Black walnut population size fluctuated with Quaternary glacial and interglacial periods.
- Association J. nigra contained highly divergent genomic regions associated with development, reproduction, disease resistance and stress tolerance.
- Observation WRKY41 was identified as a potential driver of J. nigra adaptation.
- Observation ERF012 was identified as a potential driver of J. nigra adaptation.