Evidence of an additional center of apple domestication in Iran, with contributions from the Caucasian crab apple Malus orientalis Running head: Apple domestication in the Caucasus

Hamid Bina , Hamed Yousefzadeh , Anthony Venon (1) , Carine Remoué (1) , Agnès Rousselet (1) , Matthieu Falque (1) , Faramarzi Shadab , Chen Xilong (1) , Jarkyn Samanchina , David Gill , Akylai Kabaeva , Tatiana Giraud (2) , Hossainpour Batool , Hamid Abdollahi , Ivan Gabrielyan , Nersesyan Anush , Amandine Cornille

1 INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
2 ESE - Ecologie Systématique et Evolution

Anthropogenic and natural divergence processes in crop-wild fruit tree complexes are less studied than in annual crops, especially in the Caucasus, a pivotal region for plant domestication. We investigated anthropogenic and natural divergence processes in apples in the Caucasus using 26 microsatellite markers amplified in 550 wild and cultivated samples. We found two distinct

Mots clés: apple; Caucasus; crop-wild gene flow; domestication; fruit tree; climate; introgression

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Hamid Bina, Hamed Yousefzadeh, Anthony Venon, Carine Remoué, Agnès Rousselet, et al.. Evidence of an additional center of apple domestication in Iran, with contributions from the Caucasian crab apple Malus orientalis Running head: Apple domestication in the Caucasus. 2021. ⟨hal-03365757⟩