A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping

David M. Spooner, Karen McLean, Gavin Ramsay, Robbie Waugh, Glenn J. Bryan

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Abstract

The cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum, ultimately traces its origin to Andean and Chilean landraces developed by pre-Colombian cultivators. These Andean landraces exhibit tremendous morphological and genetic diversity, and are distributed throughout the Andes, from western Venezuela to northern Argentina, and in southern Chile. The wild species progenitors of these landraces have long been in dispute, but all hypotheses center on a group of ≈20 morphologically very similar tuber-bearing (Solanum section Petota) wild taxa referred to as the S. brevicaule complex, distributed from central Peru to northern Argentina. We present phylogenetic analyses based on the representative cladistic diversity of 362 individual wild (261) and landrace (98) members of potato (all tuber-bearing) and three outgroup non-tuber-bearing members of Solanum section Etuberosum, genotyped with 438 robust amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Our analyses are consistent with a hypothesis of a "northern" (Peru) and "southern" (Bolivia and Argentina) cladistic split for members of the S. brevicaule complex, and with the need for considerable reduction of species in the complex. In contrast to all prior hypotheses, our data support a monophyletic origin of the landrace cultivars from the northern component of this complex in Peru, rather than from multiple independent origins from various northern and southern members.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14694-14699
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume102
Issue number41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2005

Keywords

  • Evolution
  • Sect. Petota
  • Solanum

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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