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The evolutionary history of three Baracoffea species from western Madagascar revealed by chloroplast and nuclear genomes

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  • Rickarlos Bezandry
  • Mathilde Dupeyron
  • Laura Natalia Gonzalez-Garcia
  • Artemis Anest
  • Perla Hamon
  • Hery Lisy Tiana Ranarijaona
  • Marie Elodie Vavitsara
  • Sylvie Sabatier
  • Romain Guyot

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The wild species of the Coffea genus present a very wide morphological, genetic, and biochemical diversity. Wild species are recognized more resistant to diseases, pests, and environmental variations than the two species currently cultivated worldwide: C. arabica (Arabica) and C. canephora (Robusta). Consequently, wild species are now considered as a crucial resource for adapting cultivated coffee trees to climate change. Within the Coffea genus, 79 wild species are native to the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros, Mayotte, Mauritius, Réunion and Madagascar, out of a total of 141 taxa worldwide. Among them, a group of 9 species called "Baracoffea" are particularly atypical in their morphology and adaptation to the sandy soils of the dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar. Here, we have attempted to shed light on the evolutionary history of three Baracoffea species: C. ambongensis, C. boinensis and C. bissetiae by analyzing their chloroplast and nuclear genomes. We assembled the complete chloroplast genomes de novo and extracted 28,800 SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) markers from the nuclear genomes. These data were used for phylogenetic analysis of Baracoffea with Coffea species from Madagascar and Africa. Our new data support the monophyletic origin of Baracoffea within the Coffea of Madagascar, but also reveal a divergence with a sister clade of four species: C. augagneurii, C. ratsimamangae, C. pervilleana and C. Mcphersonii (also called C. vohemarensis), belonging to the Subterminal botanical series and living in dry or humid forests of northern Madagascar. Based on a bioclimatic analysis, our work suggests that Baracoffea may have diverged from a group of Malagasy Coffea from northern Madagascar and adapted to the specific dry climate and low rainfall of western Madagascar. The genomic data generated in the course of this work will contribute to the understanding of the adaptation mechanisms of these particularly singular species.

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  • Rickarlos Bezandry & Mathilde Dupeyron & Laura Natalia Gonzalez-Garcia & Artemis Anest & Perla Hamon & Hery Lisy Tiana Ranarijaona & Marie Elodie Vavitsara & Sylvie Sabatier & Romain Guyot, 2024. "The evolutionary history of three Baracoffea species from western Madagascar revealed by chloroplast and nuclear genomes," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0296362
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296362
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