Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding

X Wang, L Gao, C Jiao, S Stravoravdis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Solanum pimpinellifolium (SP) is the wild progenitor of cultivated tomato. Because of its
remarkable stress tolerance and intense flavor, SP has been used as an important …

Super-pangenome analyses highlight genomic diversity and structural variation across wild and cultivated tomato species

N Li, Q He, J Wang, B Wang, J Zhao, S Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

The Genome Sequence of the Wild Tomato Solanum pimpinellifolium Provides Insights Into Salinity Tolerance

R Razali, S Bougouffa, MJL Morton… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Solanum pimpinellifolium, a wild relative of cultivated tomato, offers a wealth of breeding
potential for desirable traits such as tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses. Here, we report …

The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

A Bolger, F Scossa, ME Bolger, C Lanz, F Maumus… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Solanum pennellii is a wild tomato species endemic to Andean regions in South America,
where it has evolved to thrive in arid habitats. Because of its extreme stress tolerance and …

Analysis of wild tomato introgression lines elucidates the genetic basis of transcriptome and metabolome variation underlying fruit traits and pathogen response

J Szymański, S Bocobza, S Panda, P Sonawane… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Wild tomato species represent a rich gene pool for numerous desirable traits lost during
domestication. Here, we exploited an introgression population representing wild desert …

Genomic variation in tomato, from wild ancestors to contemporary breeding accessions

J Blanca, J Montero-Pau, C Sauvage, G Bauchet, E Illa… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Domestication modifies the genomic variation of species. Quantifying this
variation provides insights into the domestication process, facilitates the management of …

A new genetic linkage map of tomato based on a Solanum lycopersicum × S. pimpinellifolium RIL population displaying locations of candidate pathogen response …

H Ashrafi, M Kinkade, MR Foolad - Genome, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
The narrow genetic base of the cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., necessitates
introgression of new variation from related species. Wild tomato species represent a rich …

Domestication and breeding of tomatoes: what have we gained and what can we gain in the future?

Y Bai, P Lindhout - Annals of botany, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background It has been shown that a large variation is present and exploitable from wild
Solanum species but most of it is still untapped. Considering the thousands of Solanum …

Exploring genetic variation in the tomato (Solanum section Lycopersicon) clade by whole‐genome sequencing

100 Tomato Genome Sequencing Consortium… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We explored genetic variation by sequencing a selection of 84 tomato accessions and
related wild species representative of the Lycopersicon, Arcanum, Eriopersicon and …

Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …