Genetic variation among 481 diverse soybean accessions, inferred from genomic re-sequencing

Authors: VALLIYODAN, BABU - Lincoln University Of Missouri; Brown, Anne; WANG, J - University Of Missouri; PATIL, GUVANT - University Of Minnesota; LIU, YANG - University Of Missouri; OTYAMA, PAUL - Iowa State University; Nelson, Rex; VUONG, TRI - University Of Missouri; Song, Qijian; MUSKET, THERESA - University Of Missouri; WAGNER, RUTH - Bayer Cropscience; MARRI, PRADEEP - Corteva Agriscience; REDDY, SAM - Corteva Agriscience; SESSIONS, ALLEN - Bayer Cropscience; WU, XIAOLEI - Bayer Cropscience; GRANT, DAVID - Former ARS Employee; BAYER, PHILLIP - University Of Western Australia; ROORKIWAL, MANISH - International Crops Research Institute For The Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); VARSHNEY, RAJEEV - International Crops Research Institute For The Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); LIU, XIN - Beijing Genome Institute; EDWARDS, DAVID - University Of Western Australia; XU, DONG - University Of Missouri; JOSHI, TRUPTI - University Of Missouri; Cannon, Steven; NGUYEN, HENRY - University Of Missouri

Submitted to: Scientific Data
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/9/2020
Publication Date: 2/8/2021
Citation: Valliyodan, B., Brown, A.V., Wang, J., Patil, G., Liu, Y., Otyama, P.I., Nelson, R., Vuong, T., Song, Q., Musket, T.A., Wagner, R., Marri, P., Reddy, S., Sessions, A., Wu, X., Grant, D.M., Bayer, P., Roorkiwal, M., Varshney, R.K., Liu, X., Edwards, D., Xu, D., Joshi, T., Cannon, S.B., Nguyen, H.T. 2020. Genetic variation among 481 diverse soybean accessions, inferred from genomic re-sequencing. Scientific Data. 8. Article 50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00834-w.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00834-w

Interpretive Summary: Comparison of 481 soybean lines from improved and wild soybean allowed the identification of regions of the soybean genome that have been selected by early farmers and breeders during the domestication and improvement of soybean. This information can be used by scientists to identify important genes related to yield, disease resistance and harvest potential that could be leveraged to further improve the soybean crop, benefitting growers, producers and consumers.

Technical Abstract: Here we report the results of resequencing 481 diverse soybean accessions. The accessions are composed of 52 wild and 429 cultivated (landrace and elite). Highly conserved regions are shown on chromosome 5 and 20, suggesting these regions were selected during domestication. Comparisons of these accessions against the whole US germplasm genotyped with the SoySNP50K SNP chip reveal that over 95% of the resequenced accessions have a high similarity to their SoySNP50K counterpart. The other 5% that did not match their counterpart suggest an error in the source of the seed analyzed.