Paper · 2025 · iScience

Structural and deleterious burdens and their effects on yield traits in foxtail millet domestication

Mengrui Du; Fan Zhang; Xu Wang; et al.

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Abstract

). Integrating comparative genomics, pangenomics, population genetics, and quantitative genetics, we identified 6,713 gene gains and 2,802 losses during domestication, affecting flowering time and developmental processes. Population genetics of 333 wild and cultivated accessions revealed 25.76% and 40.40% reductions in structural and deleterious variant burdens in cultivars, potentially reflecting a dramatic loss of genetic diversity of the wild progenitor. Quantitative genetics detected genetic association of yield traits, and essential roles of deleterious and structural variants in the formation of yield traits. In general, this study highlights significant impacts of structural and deleterious variants on yield traits and provides valuable guidelines for molecular breeding of foxtail millet.

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Domestication involved 6,713 gene gains.

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foxtail milletSetaria italicat0
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gene gainse0
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Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“we identified 6,713 gene gains and 2,802 losses during domestication, affecting flowering time and developmental processes”

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“foxtail millet”

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Domestication involved 2,802 gene losses.

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Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“we identified 6,713 gene gains and 2,802 losses during domestication, affecting flowering time and developmental processes”

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“foxtail millet”

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The gene changes affected flowering time and developmental processes.

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foxtail milletSetaria italicat0
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flowering time and developmental processese0
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during domesticatione0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“gene gains and 2,802 losses during domestication, affecting flowering time and developmental processes”

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“foxtail millet”

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Structural variant burden in cultivars was reduced by 25.76%.

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“25.76% and 40.40% reductions in structural and deleterious variant burdens in cultivars”

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“foxtail millet”

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Deleterious variant burden in cultivars was reduced by 40.40%.

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foxtail milletSetaria italicat0
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structural and deleterious variant burdense0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“25.76% and 40.40% reductions in structural and deleterious variant burdens in cultivars”

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“foxtail millet”

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Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Quantitative genetics detected genetic associations with yield traits.

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foxtail milletSetaria italicat0
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deleterious and structural variantse0
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yield traitse0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Setaria italica
Setaria italica · TaxonNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Quantitative genetics detected genetic association of yield traits, and essential roles of deleterious and structural variants in the formation of yield traits”

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“foxtail millet”

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