Abstract
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides calories and nutrition for more than half a billion people. It was domesticated by native Amazonian peoples through cultivation of the wild progenitor M. esculenta ssp. flabellifolia and is now grown in tropical regions worldwide. Here we provide a high-quality genome assembly for cassava with improved contiguity, linkage, and completeness; almost 97% of genes are anchored to chromosomes. We find that paleotetraploidy in cassava is shared with the related rubber tree Hevea, providing a resource for comparative studies. We also sequence a global collection of 58 Manihot accessions, including cultivated and wild cassava accessions and related species such as Ceará or India rubber (M. glaziovii), and genotype 268 African cassava varieties. We find widespread interspecific admixture, and detect the genetic signature of past cassava breeding programs. As a clonally propagated crop, cassava is especially vulnerable to pathogens and abiotic stresses. This genomic resource will inform future genome-enabled breeding efforts to improve this staple crop.
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Cassava, also known as manioc, tapioca, and yuca, is a widely grown drought-tolerant crop that can be cultivated on marginal soils and can produce high yields in favorable growing conditions. Its starch-filled storage roots provide a major source of calories in tropical regions1. The likely wild progenitor of cultivated cassava is M. esculenta ssp. flabellifolia (Pohl), a woody perennial shrub that is found throughout the Amazon basin2,3,4,5. Although domesticated over 6,000 years ago6,7,8,9,10, cassava cultivation spread beyond South America only in the past 500 years, exported by European colonialists and slave traders11. Nowadays, cassava is one of the most widely cultivated tropical crops, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where it has undergone additional improvement through introgression and focused breeding, with the primary aims of conferring disease tolerance and increasing yield12,13.
Cassava can outcross but is commonly clonally propagated, and harbors considerable genetic load14. The reliance on clonal propagation and the limited diversity of African cassava germplasm make it particularly susceptible to the spread of viral and bacterial diseases such as cassava mosaic disease (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), and cassava bacterial blight15,16. In contrast to African varieties, Thai elite varieties retain considerable diversity17. Genetic improvement through conventional breeding in cassava is a challenging and lengthy process, owing to the 12-month cropping cycle, limited seed set of elite varieties, asynchronous flowering and most importantly, the long breeding cycle, which mainly results from the slow clonal multiplication rate (around 1:5 to 1:10 per generation), coupled with the need to obtain phenotypic data in replicated trials. Development of genomic resources, such as a chromosome-scale reference sequence, increased understanding of the cassava gene pool (including wild relatives), and insights into population structure, is expected to accelerate progress in basic biological research and genetic improvement.
We report the chromosome-scale structure of the cassava genome and its formation by an ancient whole-genome duplication that is shared with the rubber tree genus Hevea. To better understand the global genetic diversity of cultivated cassava and its wild relatives, we sequenced 53 cultivated and wild accessions of M. esculenta from South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania using whole genome shotgun methods (median 63-fold, range 19- to 168-fold) (Table 1). In this report we use “cassava” to refer to cultivated and/or domesticated varieties of M. esculenta, and the shorthand M. esc. flabellifolia for wild accessions3. We also shotgun-sequenced five Manihot accessions related to cassava, including three from the wild species M. glaziovii Muell. Arg., one named M. pseudoglaziovii Pax & K. Hoffman, and “tree” cassava, a suspected hybrid sometimes called M. catingea Ule12,18. The Ceará or India rubber tree species M. glaziovii, also domesticated in South America, was imported to East Africa in the early twentieth century. It is interfertile with cassava and has been used in African breeding programs to exploit the natural resistance of M. glaziovii to cassava pathogens18. To analyze genetic variation present in African varieties, we also characterized 268 cultivars of cassava using reduced representation genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)19 (Table 2).
Results
Chromosome structure
To produce a high-quality chromosome-scale reference genome for cassava, we augmented our earlier draft sequence20 of the reference genotype AM560-2 with additional whole genome shotgun sequencing and mate pair data, fosmid-end sequences, and a paired-end library developed using proximity ligation of in vitro reconstituted chromatin21 (Methods and Supplementary Note 1). AM560-2 is an S3 line bred at Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) from MCOL1505 (also known as Manihoica P-12 (ref. 22). Compared with the previous draft23, the contiguity of our new shotgun assembly has more than doubled (N50 length 27.7 kb vs. 11.5 kb), and an additional 135 Mb is anchored to chromosomes23 (Supplementary Note 1). To organize the sequence into chromosomes we integrated the shotgun assembly with a 22,403-marker consensus genetic map23 and two other recently published maps24,25 to produce 18 'pseudomolecules' that represent the 18 linkage groups of cassava (Supplementary Note 1). This draft genome encodes 33,033 predicted protein-coding genes, based on homology and transcriptome data for a variety of tissues and conditions (Supplementary Note 2); of these predicted genes, 96.6% are anchored to a chromosomal position. Gypsy transposable elements containing long terminal repeats comprise more than half of the 299.3 Mb of repetitive sequence present in our assembly (Supplementary Note 2). An estimated 200 Mb of unassembled sequence includes highly repetitive centromeres and high copy repeats, but less than 1% of cassava genes (Supplementary Note 1).
Comparative analyses revealed the impact of paleotetraploidy20,26,27 on the cassava genome (Fig. 1a). Analysis of the genomic distribution of paralogs reveals that the n = 18 linkage groups of cassava comprise five pairs of homologous chromosomes and two groups of four chromosomes that have undergone a series of breaks and fusions involving homologs. The genus Manihot belongs to the Euphorbiaceae, an angiosperm family that includes several other species with commercial importance including castor bean (Ricinus communis, 2n = 20), physic nut (Jatropha curcas, 2n = 22), and rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis, 2n = 36), which we estimate diverged from cassava ∼35 million years ago (mya) (Supplementary Note 3). The shared chromosome number of cassava and rubber tree, roughly double the chromosome count of physic nut and castor bean, suggests that the paleotetraploidy present in cassava might be shared with Hevea28,29. Our analysis confirms this hypothesis, as both species have thousands of homologous gene pairs that diverged approximately 10 million years before the cassava-Hevea speciation (Fig. 1b and Supplementary Note 3). Analysis of single- or two-copy cassava genes with single-copy orthologs in Jatropha shows that 36.9% of genes duplicated by paleotetraploidy are retained in two copies in cassava (4,116/11,155 genes analyzed), with similar rates of retention on each of the pairs of homeologs (Supplementary Note 3). This phylogenetic analysis of euphorb genomes supports the early branching of the Ricinus lineage, agreeing with some genome-wide studies27 but not others30.
Global genetic diversity
We used whole genome shotgun sequencing and GBS to sample the global diversity of cassava and its wild relatives as summarized in Table 1 and further described in Supplementary Dataset 1, and Supplementary Notes 4 and 5. We also integrated into our analyses a pair of recently published Manihot sequences27. Our first-principles approach does not depend on pre-assigned species and is alert to possible introgression.
Chloroplast sequences from the sequenced accessions separate into two deeply divergent clades representing distinct Manihot species (Fig. 2a). The M. esculenta clade includes only cassava and M. esc. flabellifolia accessions, whereas the M. glaziovii clade includes M. glaziovii and, surprisingly, M. pseudoglaziovii as well as the putative “wild cassava” W14 (ref. 27; but see below). Analysis of nuclear genome variation by principal component analysis (Fig. 2b)31 and model-based clustering (FRAPPE)32 (Fig. 2c) reveals three distinct clusters: (i) most cultivated cassava, grouped with two M. esc. flabellifolia (designated “C/F”); (ii) the remaining sampled accessions of M. esc. flabellifolia (“F”); and (iii) M. glaziovii (“G”), a cluster that also includes the putative “wild cassava” W14. Several accessions (e.g., Tree Cassava) occupy intermediate positions in principal component analysis and show mixed ancestry in model-based clustering; these are discussed further below.
Accessions in the C/F cluster show a level of heterozygosity (0.84%, based on single-nucleotide variants (SNV) at callable loci, excluding runs of homozygosity) that is approximately twice the rate of homozygous differences as compared with the AM560-2 reference (Fig. 2d and Supplementary Notes 6 and 7). This is consistent with population-genetic expectation for a randomly mating population that includes the reference haplotype. Many of our nominally outbred cassava accessions show multiple short runs of homozygosity (mean 18 cM, median 8 cM), but this typically accounts for a small fraction of the genome in cassava (Supplementary Note 6, Supplementary Fig. 11).
Surprisingly, all but one (the Brazilian BRA 856) of the 39 distinct cultivated cassava accessions in our collection fall into two M. esculenta chloroplast (cpDNA) haplogroups that are present on all continents. Although some sharing of cpDNA haplotypes is due to the inclusion of close relatives in our sample (as detected by nuclear genome analysis; Supplementary Note 8), the extraordinarily limited cpDNA diversity in cultivated cassava suggests a substantial maternal bottleneck during domestication. Attempts to identify further nuclear genome substructure within the “cassava” group are described below. M. esc. flabellifolia accessions in the C/F cluster include FLA 433-2 from the Brazilian state of Rondônia, which has a variation profile indistinguishable from cultivated cassava (http://isa.ciat.cgiar.org/urg/cassavacollection.do; Fig. 2e), and cassava-like storage roots (Supplementary Note 4, Supplementary Fig. 5) although its cpDNA does not match either of the two common cassava haplotypes. Its grouping with cassava is consistent with the haplotype analyses of Olsen and Schaal3, who found that cassava was domesticated in the western part of the southern Amazon region. FLA XXX-15 shares its cpDNA haplotype with cultivated cassava and also has a cassava-type nuclear genotype and cassava-like storage roots (Supplementary Note 4, Supplementary Fig. 5), but its sampling site is not recorded.
Accessions in the F grouping include M. esc. flabellifolia samples from the more eastern portion of the southern Amazon basin. They show comparable levels of heterozygosity (0.61%) to those in C/F but, in contrast to the C/F group, exhibit a substantially higher level of homozygous differences relative to the cassava reference AM560-2 (0.89% for F versus 0.44% for C/F; Fig. 2f and Supplementary Notes 6 and 7). This supports the identification of F as representing a subpopulation of M. esculenta differentiated from cultivated cassava, although in principal component analyses they form a broad distribution and show considerable heterogeneity. The M. esc. flabellifolia accessions in our F group are from the central Brazilian states of Goiás and Tocantins in the southern Amazon region, which were differentiated from cassava in the studies of Olsen and Schaal3,4,5. FLA 449-1, from Mato Grosso, lies between the F and C/F groups and is a mixed type according to FRAPPE (Fig. 2c). The second principal component characterizes interspecific variation within M. esculenta, and is correlated with the distance from the center of domestication (Supplementary Note 6, Supplementary Fig. 12). The discrete separation between C/F and F may be an artifact31 of our limited geographic sampling of M. esc. flabellifolia, and we suspect, based on the findings of Olsen and Schaal3,4,5, that additional sampling would lead to a continuum representing the full intraspecific diversity of M. esculenta. In contrast to cultivated cassava accessions, wild M. esc. flabellifolia shows considerable cpDNA diversity, and no two samples in our collection share the same chloroplast haplotype, suggesting that we have not yet saturated coverage of wild M. esculenta cpDNA diversity.
Finally, the G cluster of Manihot genomes, which includes the three M. glaziovii accessions, is strongly differentiated from the cassava reference (2.2% homozygous differences at genotyped positions; heterozygosity 0.71%; Fig. 2g and Supplementary Notes 6 and 7), and have related cpDNAs that are quite distinct (estimated divergence ∼2–3 mya; Supplementary Note 6), from M. esculenta, as expected for accessions from a different species.
Notably, the “wild cassava” W14 accession, which was put forward as a genomic reference for “M. esculenta ssp. flabellifolia” by Wang et al.27 groups with our G cluster of M. glaziovii accessions based on both nuclear and cpDNA genome analyses (Fig. 2a–c,h). Wang et al.27 note that W14 is unusual in that it “produces a large number of fruits and is propagated only by seeds” and has a “lower rate of photosynthesis [than cassava] and very low storage root yield and starch content of the storage root.” Our analysis suggests that the W14 sequence presented in Wang et al.27 is in fact from an M. glaziovii accession, and that the diversity analysis presented in their study is dominated by interspecific variation rather than cassava domestication.
Introgression and cassava diversity
We find widespread evidence for interspecific hybridization22 and introgression, with mixed ancestry in cassava and its relatives, based on FRAPPE (Fig. 2c), intermediate position in principal component analysis (Fig. 2b) and genomic segments of high heterozygosity (as would be expected in interspecific hybrids; Fig. 3a). To resolve admixture events along chromosomes, we identified 1,055,571 biallelic ancestry-informative single-nucleotide markers that represent fixed, or nearly fixed, differences between M. esculenta (C/F plus F, together denoted as E) and M. glaziovii, and assigned segmental ancestry as either diploid M. esculenta (E/E), diploid M. glaziovii (G/G), or hybrid (G/E) using a maximum likelihood method (Fig. 3, Supplementary Note 7 and Supplementary Datasets 2 and 3). We were unable to assemble a sufficiently comprehensive set of variants to allow assignment of C/F or F ancestry across the genome, consistent with analysis of population structure in Supplementary Note 6.
For example, “tree” cassava, grown around homesteads in Africa and whose leaves are eaten as a vegetable, is widely believed to be a natural hybrid of cassava and M. glaziovii12,18,22. Our analysis confirms this ancestry, with (at least for our Tree Cassava from Tanzania) cassava as the maternal parent, consistent with FRAPPE and principal component analysis. Whereas most of the genome is a hybrid of M. esculenta/M. glaziovii, the right arms of chromosome 1 and 18 are derived only from M. glaziovii (Fig. 3a). This is consistent with a widespread introgression of M. glaziovii into African cassava, as detailed below.
Surprisingly, we find that the genome of a Brazilian accession designated “M. pseudoglaziovii Pax. & Hoffm.,” which was thought to be a separate species33, is an interspecific admixture of M. esculenta and M. glaziovii. The evidence from our investigation is consistent with a second-generation backcross into M. esculenta from an M. glaziovii maternal great-grandmother (Supplementary Note 7). Manihot taxonomists have described up to 98 separate species in the genus34,35. Our results raise the possibility that some of these species may be interspecific hybrids or admixtures.
Two outliers in our analyses are the South American cassavas MBRA 685 and MCOL 1468, which both have long segments (overlapping over 13.2 Mb of chromosome 2) whose ancestry could not be confidently assigned based on our collection of M. esculenta and M. glaziovii alleles. These segments are (i) highly heterozygous (mean 2.2%) and (ii) enriched in variant alleles that are not found elsewhere within our collection (0.93% of genotyped sites in segments), but are shared between the two accessions (56.3% of rare alleles are shared in the overlapping region) (Supplementary Note 7, Supplementary Fig. 17). These segments may be introgressions of an as-yet unidentified third Manihot species into cassava3,36 (teal segments, Fig. 3a). The unique variants shared by these two cassavas can be used to query future collections of Manihot sequences.
Introgression of M. glaziovii into cassava
We find that seven cultivated African cassava accessions arose by introgression of M. glaziovii into M. esculenta (Namikonga, Akena, Mkombozi, TMS-I972205, KBH 2006/18, TMS-I30572, and Muzege; Fig. 3a). Six of the seven (all but Muzege) share a common M. glaziovii haplotype on chromosome 1 (Fig. 3b); four of these (all of these except TMS-I972205 and Akena) also share a common M. glaziovii haplotype on chromosome 4 (Supplementary Note 7). In the 1930s and 1940s, the Amani breeding program in Tanzania intentionally introgressed M. glaziovii into cassava germplasm with the aim of transferring CMD resistance; CBSD resistance was a secondary trait12. Of our sequenced accessions, the CBSD-resistant but CMD-susceptible Namikonga, the CBSD-susceptible but CMD-tolerant TMS-I30572 (ref. 37), and the TMS-I30572 descendent TMS-I972205 are known to be derived from the Amani program. Our analysis suggests that the other introgressed African cassava accessions also derive from Amani germplasm. The number and size of the M. glaziovii/M. esculenta hybrid segments of many of these accessions are consistent with having one or two M. glaziovii great-great-grandparents. Our Tree Cassava, isolated from Tanzania, appears to be a cross between M. glaziovii and an introgressed cassava, because in this region of the genome both haplotypes are of M. glaziovii type. Tree Cassava and two escaped East African M. glaziovii also possess short segments of the Amani haplotype (Fig. 3a), consistent with shared ancestry.
Unexpectedly, three South American cassava cultivars (BRA 856, MBRA 685, and MCOL 1468), and one known derivative of crosses between South American and Nigerian germplasm (AR 40-6), also show M. glaziovii introgression (Fig. 3a), but with a smaller fraction of admixture than the African Amani-derived cultivars. Three of the four (AR 40-6, BRA 865, MBRA 685), however, share a common M. glaziovii haplotype in the 22–23 Mb region on chromosome 1 (Fig. 3c). Thus, it is possible that M. glaziovii introgression has also occurred as part of South American breeding programs36, or that these programs have incorporated undocumented introgressed African germplasm.
Comparing these M. glaziovii markers to our collection of 268 genotyped African cassava accessions, we find that the same introgressed Amani segments are widespread among TMS elite lines, TMEB breeder lines, and TMe landraces, but are rare in farmer varieties from southern, eastern, and central Africa (SEC collection), presumably because those accessions arose from farmer selection rather than breeding programs (Fig. 3d). In most cases, these introgressed accessions share a common haplotype. We hypothesize that these shared segments, which include 285 and 206 genes on chromosomes 1 and 4, respectively (Supplementary Datasets 4 and 5), may contain desirable M. glaziovii CMD/CBSD resistance gene(s) transferred in the Amani program, although the differential disease resistance among these cultivars may also implicate other introgressed segments, and other traits may be involved. M. glaziovii alleles in these regions can be used as markers to track these segments in further breeding efforts.
Discussion
Our analyses reveal relationships among cultivated cassava that will aid in developing diverse germplasm for breeding. Many differently named accessions are near-clones based on genome-wide identity, although they may harbor accumulated somatic mutations (Supplementary Note 8). Other accessions are common first- or second-degree relatives and are hubs in the relatedness network (Supplementary Note 8, Supplementary Table 13, Supplementary Fig. 20). GBS-based analysis of a broader sampling of African accessions confirms the prevalence of first- or second-degree identity by descent (Fig. 4 and Supplementary Note 9). The recurrent use of a small number of genotypes as parents in breeding efforts, in part due to poor flowering in many landraces or cultivars, has reduced the genetic diversity of cassava, especially in Africa. Knowledge of these relationships will guide breeding decisions to restore lost variation.
Early in its domestication cassava experienced a strong maternal bottleneck, as revealed by limited global chloroplast diversity relative to the wild progenitor species. Interspecific introgression, however, has injected new variation into the nuclear genome, both through organized breeding programs and through what appears to be natural introgression. In Africa, specific M. glaziovii haplotypes introduced by organized breeding programs are widespread among preferred varieties (Fig. 3d and Supplementary Note 9, Supplementary Fig. 22), and they likely encode desired traits. These haplotypes are also found in farmer varieties from throughout Africa, presumably spread by undocumented crosses. These introgressed segments span substantial fractions of chromosomes, and additional effort will be needed to break these linkages and pinpoint causal variants. At least one unknown species of Manihot has contributed to the genetic diversity of cultivated South American cassava, suggesting the profitability of exploring additional interspecific breeding.
The variants and population structure described here are essential inputs for marker-assisted and genomic selection-based approaches to improving disease resistance and yield for this staple crop38,39. Large-scale breeding efforts, such as the NextGen Cassava program40,41, will need to incorporate the impact of common introgressions in predictive genotype–phenotype models to realize the full power of genome-enabled approaches.
Methods
Sequencing and assembly of AM560-2.
Four Illumina whole genome shotgun fragment libraries were constructed from cassava accession AM560-2 DNA left over from Prochnik et al.20, and sequenced on Illumina HiSeq with 250-bp forward and 200-bp reverse reads. Leaves were collected from AM560-2 plants and high molecular weight DNA prepared for fosmid, mate pair and Dovetail “Chicago” libraries. The former two of these were sequenced on Illumina MiSeq and the latter on HiSeq. Assembly of shotgun, mate-pair and fosmid sequences with Platanus (v1.2.1)50; further scaffolding by Dovetail Genomics (Santa Cruz, CA)21, and anchoring to a composite genetic map23 generated an assembly on 18 chromosomes. The shotgun assembly captures more than 98.5% of cassava's protein-coding genes based on comparison with EST sequences. See Supplementary Note 1 for more detail.
Annotation.
De novo repeat finding in the assembly was performed with RepeatModeler v1.0.8 (http://www.repeatmasker.org/RepeatModeler.html), followed by masking with Repeatmasker (http://www.repeatmasker.org). RNA-seq data, together with 454 and Sanger ESTs, were used to reconstruct transcripts which were combined with homology-based gene predictions with PASA51 to make gene models (Supplementary Note 2). Of the 33,033 predicted protein-coding genes, 11,872 and 29,274 have evidence for transcription or homology, respectively, over more than 50% of their length. 31,895 predicted protein-coding genes (96.6%) and 518.5 Mb (89.0% of the assembled sequence) are mapped to a chromosomal position.
Whole genome duplication.
Homologous segments were identified in the cassava genome by comparing all cassava proteins to each other and looking for runs of two or more paralogous genes (with up to six intervening genes) in separate regions of the cassava genome. Cassava genes in these duplicated regions were compared to proteins in Ricinus, Hevea, Jatropha, and Populus, and average corrected fourfold degenerate transversion (4DTv) rates were calculated between the species allowing reconstruction of a neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree and timing of species divergences, calibrated by fossil evidence. Average 4DTv from Hevea and cassava paralog pairs was used to place the whole genome duplication before speciation (Supplementary Note 3).
Global Manihot diversity.
Tissue or DNA was obtained from 58 accessions of cassava and related Manihot from collections including South American, African, Asian, and Oceanian diversity (Supplementary Note 4). Whole genome shotgun fragment libraries were paired-end sequenced using Illumina HiSeq. The majority of libraries were sequenced with reads 200 bp or longer (Supplementary Note 5).
Manihot relatedness and haplotype ancestry.
A PhyML52 maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree was constructed from Malvidae chloroplast sequences aligned with DIALIGN53, allowing timing of the divergence of M. glaziovii and M. esculenta (Supplementary Note 6). A minimal “pants” model54 was used to calculate population genetic parameters of this divergence (Supplementary Note 10). SNVs were called by aligning reads to the reference genome with BWA-MEM55 and genotyping with the HaplotypeCaller tool from GATK56,57. smartpca31 and FRAPPE32 software were used to estimate ancestral proportions (Supplementary Note 6). Pure individuals were used to identify ancestry-diagnostic SNVs. These SNVs were used to determine admixture in cassava accessions (Supplementary Note 7). IBD and were calculated with PLINK58 software to classify relatedness (e.g., parent-offspring, full sibling; see Supplementary Note 8).
Genotyping-by-sequencing of diverse African cassava.
SNV genotypes were called from 271 accessions from three collections using GBS23 with BWA59 and the HaplotypeCaller tool from the GATK software package. IBD was calculated with PLINK (Supplementary Note 9).
Accession Codes.
All Manihot whole genome shotgun sequence, plus mate pair and fosmid sequence used for AM560-2 genome assembly, as well as the v6.1 AM560-2 genome assembly itself, may be found under BioProject PRJNA234389. Diversity GBS sequence is deposited in BioProject PRJNA234391. The v6.1 AM560-2 genome assembly described in this paper is also available at Phytozome (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/Mesculenta).
Accession codes
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We thank K. Swaminathan for advice on and protocols for DNA isolation; J. Burke for collecting the AM560-2 material, and J. Vrebalov for preparing the DNA used for fosmid, mate pair, and Dovetail “Chicago” libraries; M. Hall for early project planning; M. Chung, J. Choi, K. Lundy, and other members of the VCGSL at UC Berkeley for advice and technical assistance with Illumina library preparation and sequencing; J. Galina-Mehlman and J. Still at the University of Arizona Genetics Core for library preparation and sequencing; R. McEwan and C. Evans for sequencing performed at Dow AgroSciences; L.B. Boston for mate pair library construction at HudsonAlpha; N. Putnam and J. Stites at Dovetail Genomics for performing HiRise assembly; B. Keough and Lucigen for fosmid library construction and sequencing; P. Hyde for providing cassava tissue from the Setter laboratory; M. Cohn and the Staskawicz laboratory for cassava tissue; C. Hershey and L.A.B. López-Lavalle for permission to sequence CIAT accessions and background on CIAT nomenclature; E. Kanju for origin information on accession KBH 2006/18; and E. Amans and C. Exner for copyediting. J.B.L., J.V.B., C.M.H., and work at UC Berkeley were funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Grant OPPGD1493 to S.R., D.S.R., and the University of Arizona. NextGen Cassava Breeding grant OPP1048542 from BMGF and the United Kingdom Department for International Development supported S.E.P., J.V.B., and work at NRCRI. Work at IITA was supported by the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (CRP-RTB), and in East Africa, grant OPPGD1016 from BMGF. The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work used the VCGSL at UC Berkeley, supported by the National Institutes of Health S10 Instrumentation Grants S10RR029668 and S10RR027303.
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D.S.R., S.R., and M.E.F. designed the study and provided scientific leadership of project. D.S.R., J.V.B., J.B.L, and S.E.P. coordinated sequencing and analysis efforts. I.Y.R., C.E., P.N., V.L., J.N., G.M., R.S.B., T.L.S., R.M.G., and M.E.F. provided Manihot samples for sequencing. J.B.L. led molecular biology associated with the project with early contributions from E.E.-G. J.G. and J.S. were responsible for AM560-2 mate-pair sequencing. J.V.B. assembled the reference genome, integrated genetic maps with assembly, defined variant genotypes, performed population genetic analyses, analyzed cpDNAs, and analyzed admixture. S.E.P. annotated genome and performed paleotetraploidy analyses. G.A.W. performed whole genome shotgun sequencing admixture analysis, developed interspecific phasing and haplotype sharing method, and contributed to population structure analysis and population genetic modeling. J.V.B., S.E.P., and C.M.H. analyzed GBS data. D.S.R., J.V.B., J.B.L., S.E.P., and G.A.W. wrote the manuscript with input from S.R., M.E.F., P.K., R.M.G., R.S.B., C.E., and I.Y.R. All authors reviewed the manuscript.
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Supplementary Dataset 1
Shotgun sequenced Manihot accessions and GBS cassava accessions. (XLSX 217 kb)
Supplementary Dataset 2
Diagnostic M. glaziovii SNVs. (CSV 28372 kb)
Supplementary Dataset 3
Segmental M. glaziovii introgression dosage status. (CSV 23 kb)
Supplementary Dataset 4
Genes found in M. glaziovii haplotype introgressed into cassava chromosome 1. (CSV 29 kb)
Supplementary Dataset 5
enes found in M. glaziovii haplotype introgressed into cassava chromosome 4. (CSV 22 kb)
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Bredeson, J., Lyons, J., Prochnik, S. et al. Sequencing wild and cultivated cassava and related species reveals extensive interspecific hybridization and genetic diversity. Nat Biotechnol 34, 562–570 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3535
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