Selection for earlier flowering crop associated with climatic variations in the Sahel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Vigouroux, Yves ^a,b   Mariac, Cédric ^a,b   de Mita, Stéphane ^a   Pham, Jean Louis ^a   Gérard, Bruno ^c   Kapran, Issoufou ^d   Sagnard, Fabrice ^e   Deu, Monique ^e   Chantereau, Jacques ^e   Ali, Abdou ^f   Ndjeunga, Jupiter ^c   Luong, Viviane ^a   Thuillet, Anne Céline ^a   Saïdou, Abdoul Aziz ^a,b,g   Bezançon, Gilles ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c International Center of Research for the Semi Arid Tropics   (Niger)

^d Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger   (Niger)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f Centre Régional AGHRYMET   (Niger)

^g UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LANDRACE; NIGER; NONHUMAN; PEARL MILLET; PHENOLOGY; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; ALLELE; CLIMATE; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TIME; WEED;

PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

RAIN;

ALLELES; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; NIGER; PENNISETUM; PLANT WEEDS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RAIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955787157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019563     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Godfray HCJ, Beddington JR, Crute IR, Haddad L, Lawrence D, et al. (2010) Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people. Science 327: 812-818.
2. Morton JF, (2007) The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 19680-19685.
3. Howden SM, Soussana JF, Tubiello FN, Chhetri N, Dunlop M, et al. (2007) Adapting agriculture to climate change. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 19691-19696.
4. Lobell DB, Burke MB, Tebaldi C, Mastrandrea MD, Falcon WP, et al. (2008) Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030. Science 319: 607-610.
5. Brown ME, Funk CC, (2008) Food security under climate change. Science 319: 580-581.
6. Cook KH, (2008) The mysteries of Sahel droughts. Nature Geoscience 1: 647-648.
7. Biasutti M, Held IM, Sobel AH, Giannini A, (2008) SST forcings and sahel rainfall variability in simulations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. J Climate 21: 3471-3486.
8. Biasutti M, Sobel AH, (2009) Delayed Sahel rainfall and global seasonal cycle in a warmer climate. Geophys Res Lett 36: L23707.
9. Challinor AJ, Ewert F, Arnold S, Simelton E, Fraser, (2009) Crops and climate change: progress, trends, and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation. J Exp Bot 60: 2775-2789.
10. Piao S, Ciais P, Huang Y, Shen Z, Peng S, et al. (2010) The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China. Nature 467: 43-51.
11. Ndjuenga J, (2002) Local village seed system and pearl millet seed quality in Niger. Exp Agr 38: 149-162.
12. Allinne C, Mariac C, Vigouroux Y, Bezançon G, Couturon E, et al. (2008) Role of seed flow on the pattern and dynamics of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.) genetic diversity assessed by AFLP markers: a study in south-western Niger. Genetica 133: 167-178.
13. Borgel A, Sequier J, (1977) Prospection of pearl millet and sorghun in West-Africa. Field trip of 1976 in Niger (french). ORSTOM ed., Paris.
14. Bezançon G, Pham JL, Deu M, Vigouroux Y, Sagnard F, et al. (2009) Changes in the diversity and geographic distribution of cultivated millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) varieties in Niger between 1976 and 2003. Genet Res Crop Evol 56: 223-236.
15. Mariac C, Robert T, Allinne C, Remigereau MS, Luxereau A, et al. (2006) Genetic diversity and gene flow among pearl millet crop/weed complex: a case study. Theor Appl Genet 113: 1003-1014.
16. Saïdou AA, Mariac C, Luong V, Pham JL, Bezançon G, et al. (2009) Association studies identify natural variation at PHYC linked to flowering time and morphological variation in Pennisetum glaucum [(L.) R. Br.]. Genetics 182: 899-910.
17. Pritchard JK, Stephens M, Donnelly P, (2000) Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data. Genetics 155: 945-959.
18. Falush D, Stephens M, Pritchard JK, (2003) Inferences of population structure using multilocus genotype data: linked loci and correlated allele frequencies. Genetics 164: 1567-1587.
19. Huelsenbeck JP, Andolfatto P, (2007) Inference of population structure under a Dirichlet process model. Genetics 175: 1787-1802.
20. Funk C, et al. (2008) Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 11081-11086.
21. Giannini A, Saravanan R, Chang P, (2003) Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales. Science 302: 1027-1030.
22. Foley JA, Coe MT, Scheffer M, Wang G, (2003) Regime Shifts in the Sahara and Sahel interactions between ecological and climatic systems in Northern Africa. Ecosystems 6: 524-539.
23. Narisma GT, Foley JA, Licker R, Ramankutty N, (2007) Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century. Geophys Res Lett 34: L06710 doi:10.1029/2006GL028628.
24. Marshal A, (1950) Pearl millet varieties cultivated in Niger (french). L'agronomie tropicale 5: 582-592.
25. Hoffmann AA, Willi Y, (2008) Detecting genetic responses to environmental change. Nat Rev Genet 9: 421-432.
26. Scarcelli N, Cheverud JM, Schaal BA, Kover PX, (2007) Antagonistic pleiotropic effects reduce the potential adaptive value of the FRIGIDA locus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 16986-16991.
27. Ali A, Lebel T, Amani A, (2005) Estimation of rainfall in the sahel. Part 1: error function. J Appl Meteorology 44: 1691-1706.
28. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ, (1995) Biometry. Ed WH Freeman and Co., NY.
29. Mariac C, Luong V, Kapran I, Mamadou A, Sagnard F, et al. (2006) Diversity of wild and cultivated pearl millet accessions (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.) in Niger assessed by microsatellite markers. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114: 49-58.
30. Oumar I, Mariac C, Pham JL, Vigouroux Y, (2008) Phylogeny and origin of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br) as revealed by microsatellite loci. Theor Appl Genet 117: 489-497.
31. Petit RJ, et al. (1998) Conserv Biol 12: 844-855.
32. Goudet J, (2002) FSTAT, a program to estimate and test gene diversity and fixation indices (version 2.3.9.2). Available fromhttp://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/fstat.htm.
33. Liu K, Muse S, (2005) PowerMarker: new genetic data analyis software. Version 3.25. free program distributed by author over the internet fromhttp://statgen.ncsu.edu/powermarker/.
34. Vigouroux Y, Jaqueth JS, Matsuoka Y, Smith OS, Beavis WD, et al. (2002) Rate and pattern of mutation at microsatellite loci in maize. Mol Biol Evol 19: 1251-1260.
35. Vigouroux Y, Mitchell S, Matsuoka Y, Hamblin M, Kresovich S, et al. (2005) An Analysis of Genetic Diversity across the Maize Genome using Microsatellites. Genetics 169: 1617-1630.
36. Wang J, (2001) A pseudo-likelihood method for estimating effective population size from temporally spaced samples. Genet Res 78: 243-257.
37. Wang J, (2005) Estimation of effective population sizes from data on genetic markers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 360: 1395-1409.
38. Weir BS, (1996) Genetic data analysis II. Ed Sinauer Associates Inc. MA.