Domestication and Improvement Reshaped the Genomic Architecture of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Sunflower
Yavuz Delen, Semra Palali Delen, Sai Subhash Mahamkali VS…·Gen Xu
This study identifies balancing and positive selection in sunflower genomic regions related to abiotic stress tolerance, finding that modern cultivars have higher deleterious mutation loads and that some ancestral alleles enhance salt tolerance.