Genomic analyses of an extensive collection of wild and cultivated accessions provide new insights into peach breeding history

摘要

BackgroundHuman selection has a long history of transforming crop genomes. Peach (Prunus persica) has undergone more than 5000 years of domestication that led to remarkable changes in a series of agronomically important traits, but genetic bases underlying these changes and the effects of artificial selection on genomic diversity are not well understood.