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. 2023 Mar 3;379(6635):892-901.
doi: 10.1126/science.add8655. Epub 2023 Mar 2.

Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution

Yang Dong #  1   2 , Shengchang Duan #  1   2 , Qiuju Xia #  3 , Zhenchang Liang #  4 , Xiao Dong #  1   2 , Kristine Margaryan  5   6 , Mirza Musayev  7 , Svitlana Goryslavets  8 , Goran Zdunić  9 , Pierre-François Bert  10 , Thierry Lacombe  11 , Erika Maul  12 , Peter Nick  13 , Kakha Bitskinashvili  14 , György Dénes Bisztray  15 , Elyashiv Drori  16   17 , Gabriella De Lorenzis  18 , Jorge Cunha  19   20 , Carmen Florentina Popescu  21 , Rosa Arroyo-Garcia  22 , Claire Arnold  23 , Ali Ergül  24 , Yifan Zhu  1 , Chao Ma  25 , Shufen Wang  1   2 , Siqi Liu  1   2 , Liu Tang  1   2 , Chunping Wang  1   2 , Dawei Li  1   2 , Yunbing Pan  1   2 , Jingxian Li  1   2 , Ling Yang  1   2 , Xuzhen Li  1   2 , Guisheng Xiang  1   2 , Zijiang Yang  1   2 , Baozheng Chen  1   2 , Zhanwu Dai  4 , Yi Wang  4 , Arsen Arakelyan  5   26   27 , Varis Kuliyev  28 , Gennady Spotar  8 , Nabil Girollet  10 , Serge Delrot  10 , Nathalie Ollat  10 , Patrice This  11 , Cécile Marchal  29 , Gautier Sarah  11 , Valérie Laucou  11 , Roberto Bacilieri  11 , Franco Röckel  12 , Pingyin Guan  13 , Andreas Jung  30 , Michael Riemann  13 , Levan Ujmajuridze  14 , Tekle Zakalashvili  14 , David Maghradze  14 , Maria Höhn  15 , Gizella Jahnke  15 , Erzsébet Kiss  15 , Tamás Deák  15 , Oshrit Rahimi  16 , Sariel Hübner  31 , Fabrizio Grassi  32   33 , Francesco Mercati  34 , Francesco Sunseri  35 , José Eiras-Dias  19   20 , Anamaria Mirabela Dumitru  21 , David Carrasco  22 , Alberto Rodriguez-Izquierdo  22 , Gregorio Muñoz  36 , Tamer Uysal  37 , Cengiz Özer  37 , Kemal Kazan  38 , Meilong Xu  39 , Yunyue Wang  1 , Shusheng Zhu  1 , Jiang Lu  40 , Maoxiang Zhao  25 , Lei Wang  25 , Songtao Jiu  25 , Ying Zhang  41 , Lei Sun  41 , Huanming Yang  42 , Ehud Weiss  43 , Shiping Wang  25 , Youyong Zhu  1 , Shaohua Li  4 , Jun Sheng  1   2 , Wei Chen  1   2
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Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution

Yang Dong et al. Science. .
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Abstract

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape ecotypes caused by continuous habitat fragmentation. Then, domestication occurred concurrently about 11,000 years ago in Western Asia and the Caucasus to yield table and wine grapevines. The Western Asia domesticates dispersed into Europe with early farmers, introgressed with ancient wild western ecotypes, and subsequently diversified along human migration trails into muscat and unique western wine grape ancestries by the late Neolithic. Analyses of domestication traits also reveal new insights into selection for berry palatability, hermaphroditism, muscat flavor, and berry skin color. These data demonstrate the role of the grapevines in the early inception of agriculture across Eurasia.

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