Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution

• DOI: 10.1126/science.add8655
• Publication Date: 2023-03-02T18:58:15Z
• Authors: Yang Dong; Shengchang Duan; Qiuju Xia; Zhenchang Liang; Xiao Dong; Kristine Margaryan; Mirza Musayev; Svitlana Goryslavets; Goran Zdunić; Pierre-François Bert; Thierry Lacombe; Erika Maul; Peter Nick; Kakha Bitskinashvili; György Dénes Bisz...; Elyashiv Drori; Gabriella De Lore...; Jorge Cunha; Carmen Florentina...; Rosa Arroyo-Garcia; Claire Arnold; Ali Ergül; Yifan Zhu; Chao Ma; Shufen Wang; Siqi Liu; Liu Tang; Chunping Wang; Dawei Li; Yunbing Pan; Jingxian Li; Ling Yang; Xuzhen Li; Guisheng Xiang; Zijiang Yang; Baozheng Chen; Zhanwu Dai; Yi Wang; Arsen Arakelyan; Varis Kuliyev; Gennady Spotar; Nabil Girollet; Serge Delrot; Nathalie Ollat; Patrice This; Cécile Marchal; Gautier Sarah; Valérie Laucou; Roberto Bacilieri; Franco Röckel; Pingyin Guan; Andreas Jung; Michael Riemann; Levan Ujmajuridze; Tekle Zakalashvili; David Maghradze; Maria Höhn; Gizella Jahnke; Erzsébet Kiss; Tamás Deák; Oshrit Rahimi; Sariel Hübner; Fabrizio Grassi; Francesco Mercati; Francesco Sunseri; José Eiras-Dias; Anamaria Mirabela...; David Carrasco; Alberto Rodriguez...; Gregorio Muñoz; Tamer Uysal; Cengiz Özer; Kemal Kazan; Meilong Xu; Yunyue Wang; Shusheng Zhu; Jiang Lu; Maoxiang Zhao; Lei Wang; Songtao Jiu; Ying Zhang; Lei Sun; Huanming Yang; Ehud Weiss; Shiping Wang; Youyong Zhu; Shaohua Li; Jun Sheng; Wei Chen
• Keywords: 570; Acclimatization; Grapes, domestication, origin; genetic diversity, genomic history, accessions, holocene, insights; 630; Domestication; domestication; Genetics; Asia, Western; Humans; Vitis; trait of interest; Taxonomy; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/570; Ecotype; 2. Zero hunger; biology; Agriculture; Biodiversity; 15. Life on land; Life sciences; Biological Evolution; grapevine; genome sequencing; Phenotype; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; ddc:570; Asia Western

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.