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Population genomics of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.): Comparative analysis of global accessions and Senegalese landraces

BMC Genomics volume 16, Article number: 1048 (2015) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Pearl millet is a staple food for people in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa and South Asia due to its high drought tolerance and nutritional qualities. A better understanding of the genomic diversity and population structure of pearl millet germplasm is needed to support germplasm conservation and genetic improvement of this crop. Here we characterized two pearl millet diversity panels, (i) a set of global accessions from Africa, Asia, and the America, and (ii) a collection of landraces from multiple agro-ecological zones in Senegal.

Results

We identified 83,875 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 500 pearl millet accessions, comprised of 252 global accessions and 248 Senegalese landraces, using genotyping by sequencing (GBS) of PstI-MspI reduced representation libraries. We used these SNPs to characterize genomic diversity and population structure among the accessions. The Senegalese landraces had the highest levels of genetic diversity (π), while accessions from southern Africa and Asia showed lower diversity levels. Principal component analyses and ancestry estimation indicated clear population structure between the Senegalese landraces and the global accessions, and among countries in the global accessions. In contrast, little population structure was observed across in the Senegalese landraces collections. We ordered SNPs on the pearl millet genetic map and observed much faster linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay in Senegalese landraces compared to global accessions. A comparison of pearl millet GBS linkage map with the foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) genomes indicated extensive regions of synteny, as well as some large-scale rearrangements in the pearl millet lineage.

Conclusions

We identified 83,875 SNPs as a genomic resource for pearl millet improvement. The high genetic diversity in Senegal relative to other regions of Africa and Asia supports a West African origin of this crop, followed by wide diffusion. The rapid LD decay and lack of confounding population structure along agro-ecological zones in Senegalese pearl millet will facilitate future association mapping studies. Comparative population genomics will provide insights into panicoid crop evolution and support improvement of these climate-resilient crops.

Background

Ensuring food security in the world’s arid and semi-arid regions is a great challenge due to rapid population growth and strong effects of climate change in these regions [1]. Food security in these regions would be strengthened by higher crop yields, greater yield stability, and increased macro- and micro-nutrient quality of staple crops [2]. Pearl millet is an important cereal crop for arid and semi-arid regions of Africa and south Asia due to its high nutritional value and its exceptional tolerance to drought and high temperature. Pearl millet is also important forage and stover crop [3]. Pearl millet has higher nutritional quality than many other cereal grains in terms of minerals and macronutrient quality [4]. As an orphan crop, the potential of pearl millet for climate-resilient agriculture has yet to be fully realized [5, 6].

Table 1 SNPs identified by genotyping by sequencing in 500 pearl millet accessions
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Pearl millet belongs to the Panicoideae subfamily of grasses (Poaceae family) and was domesticated over 4500 years ago from Pennisetum glaucum ssp. monodii [7–9], Most research puts the origins of pearl millet somewhere along Sahelian zone from Senegal to Sudan [7–12], likely around present-day Mali [9]. Pearl millet later diffused into eastern Africa, southern Africa and South Asia, and is now cultivated about 28 million hectares worldwide with grain production of more than 22 million tons a year [3]. In Senegal, the westernmost country of the African mainland, pearl millet is the most important staple cereal, with about 1 million hectares cultivated and about 0.5 million tons of grain produced each year [13]. Despite the value of pearl millet to food security in Senegal, there is relatively little known about the genetic diversity of pearl millet in Senegal compared to other Sahelian countries [14, 15].

Understanding genomic diversity and population structure of crop germplasm is important for germplasm conservation, cultivar development, and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, and lays the foundation for genomics-assisted breeding [16, 17]. Historically, genetic characterization of pearl millet has lagged behind other cereals [3, 6]. To address this gap, several linkage maps have been constructed, and QTL mapping studies have been carried out on grain yield, stover yield, height, biotic stress, and abiotic stress traits [18–25]. High density markers are also essential for fine mapping QTL, for use in molecular breeding or marker-assisted selection [26]. Several studies have been conducted to understand the genetic diversity of pearl millet germplasm using RFLP markers [27], AFLP markers [14, 28], and SSR markers [15, 29–32]. These studies illuminated key features of population structure and diversity, but were targeted to germplasm from a specific regions [15, 29], or were conducted on global germplasm but with low marker density [11, 27]. Thus, genome–wide characterization of worldwide pearl millet germplasm is needed to gain a more complete understanding of genomic resource in this crop.

Next generation sequencing technologies have been used in many crops to rapidly identify genomic variation and develop genetic maps [33–36]. In order to take advantage of sequencing to genotype large populations, reduced representation sequencing methods have been developed, such as restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) [37–39]. These methods involve digestion of genomic DNA with specific restriction enzymes, ligation of unique barcoded adapters, and sequencing of pooled libraries [37–39]. GBS can provide high density SNP discovery and genotyping for large sets of diverse individuals at very low cost, with or without a reference genome sequence [38]. GBS has been used to genotype diverse germplasm and facilitate genome-wide association studies in many crops including maize, wheat, barley, sorghum, switchgrass, and soybean [40–45]. Recently, a high-density genetic map in pearl millet was constructed using GBS on a biparental population [46], but a GBS survey of diverse germplasm in pearl millet has not yet been described.

Here, we report the application of GBS to 500 pearl millet accessions, which include Senegalese landraces and diverse global accessions. A total of 83,875 SNPs were discovered and used to characterize genomic diversity and population structure in this species. These resources lay the foundation for future genome-wide association studies and genomics-assisted improvement of pearl millet.

Results

Genome-wide SNP data from global germplasm

Two pearl millet germplasm sets were genotyped with GBS in present study. One set was 249 pearl millet accessions (named “Senegalese landraces” hereafter) contributed by Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles; ISRA). These accessions originated from farmer cooperators in agro-ecological regions across Senegal, including West-Central Agricultural Region (Louga, Thies, and Diourbel), Agricultural Expansion Region (Tamba), Saloum Agricultural Region (Kaolack), and the Estuary Region (Fatick and Kaolack) (Fig. 1a) [47] of Senegal (Fig. 1a; Additional file 1: Table S1). All accessions were landraces, excepted 11 improved or introduced accessions, including six introduced lines from Mali, Niger, and Mauritania (Additional file 1: Table S1). While these Agricultural regions of Senegal are all part of the major pearl millet growing zone in Senegal, the annual precipitation ranges from 400 mm year−1 (Louga) to 770 mm year−1 (Tamba). Another set was 262 global pearl millet accessions selected from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) (http://www.ars-grin.gov) based on global distribution (“global accessions” hereafter) (Fig. 1b). The global accessions originate from Africa, Asia, and the Americas, with the greatest sampling from Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, Yemen, and South Africa (Fig. 1b, Additional file 1: Table S1).

Fig. 1
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The distribution of pearl millet accessions used in the study. a The distribution of 243 Senegalese pearl millet accessions. The red points represent the regions in Senegal where pearl millet landraces were collected, with region name and number of landraces noted. An additional 38 Senegalese pearl millet landraces were without origin information in Senegal. b The country-level origins of the global pearl millet accessions

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Two lanes of single-end Illumina HiSeq 2500 were used to sequence two libraries, one 384X multiplexed library (“Lib_384”) and one 288X multiplexed library (“Lib_288”), and generate a total of ~110 GB of raw data (Fig. 2a). Two libraries (two lanes) generated approximately 4.25 × 108 reads (208,404,899 for Lib_384 and 216,646,749 for Lib_288), corresponding to an average of 0.64 million reads per individual. For Lib_384, there were 184,113,400 reads with the barcode and cut site overhang (88.3 %), and for Lib_288 there were 84,493,320 reads (39.0 %) with a good barcode and cut site overhang, for an overall average of 63.6 % reads with a good barcode. After merging, 18,126,075 tags were generated, and 1,460,464 tags were retained after filtering, which were covered by 246,284,116 matching reads. Totally, 83,875 SNPs were identified across all 511 pearl millet accessions with average depth of 1264 tags per site, across all samples (Additional file 2: Table S2). To find the reason for the low percentage of good barcode and overhang in Lib_288, we called SNP for two libraries without merging the duplicated samples in Lib_384 and Lib_288. We found two libraries which were pooled into the Lib_288 which had either failed (SL3) or had low quality (SLGC2) (Fig. 2a). Finally, 11 pearl millet accessions were dropped because of poor data quality, leaving 500 pearl millet accessions (252 global accessions and 248 Senegalese landraces) for further analysis.

Fig. 2
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Pearl millet SNP discovery and allele frequency. a Flowchart of genotyping-by-sequencing for 511 pearl millet accessions. “SL” represents the pools with Senegalese landraces, “GA” represents the pools with global accessions, and “SLGA” represents the pools with accessions from both germplasm sets. SL3 had the same accessions as SL2 but the library preparation failed. For SLGA2, Senegalese landraces were duplicates of the Senegalese landraces in SLGA1, but the sequence quality was low. b The minor allele frequency distributions of observed SNPs (gray bar) compared to the neutral allele frequency spectrum (red line) in the 500 pearl millet accessions

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Analysis of the SNPs showed 63.4 % (53,208/83,875) of the nucleotide changes were transitions, while 36.5 % (30,667/83,875) of the SNPs were transversions (Table 1). The observed transition:transversion ratio is 1.74. The minor allele frequency (MAF) distribution was close to the neutral expectation, except for a paucity of rare alleles (MAF < 0.02) and a slight excess of alleles with ~50 % frequency (MAF > 0.48) (Fig. 2b). The minor allele frequency distribution of Senegalese landrace was closer to the neutral allele distribution than that of global accessions (Additional file 3: Figure S2A and B).

Genetic diversity and relatedness

The nucleotide diversity (π) of the whole panel was 0.224. The nucleotide diversity for global accessions (0.190) was slightly, but significantly, higher than that of Senegalese landraces (0.187) (P-value = 0.004). However, nucleotide diversity in other individual countries was lower than for the Senegalese landraces (Fig. 3a). The inbreeding coefficient of global accessions was significantly higher than that of Senegalese landraces (Fig. 3b). For differentiation coefficients (F ST ) among countries, the values were higher between Senegalese landraces and any other countries (Fig. 4a). The lowest F ST was observed between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The F ST between global accessions and Senegalese landraces was 0.209.

Fig. 3
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Genome-wide estimates of genetic diversity. a A comparison of nucleotide diversity among accessions from different countries. The “**” sign represents a significant difference (P < 0.01) between Senegalese landraces and the accessions from the given countries. b The distribution of inbreeding coefficients for global accessions and Senegalese landraces

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Fig. 4
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The genetic relatedness of pearl millet accessions. a F-statistic (F ST ) between populations with different origins. The circles indicate the countries of origin, and the values represent the F ST between accessions from the two countries. The thickness of the lines is proportional to the value of F ST . b Genetic relatedness among 500 accessions assessed with the neighbor joining method. Global accessions are colored by countries of origin, and Senegalese landraces are colored by regions of origin

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To visualize the genetic relatedness among accessions, a neighbor-joining tree was generated. As shown in Fig. 4b, the accessions separated into two main groups, one group corresponding to the Senegalese landraces, another to the global accessions. Among the Senegalese landraces, there is little to no clustering corresponding to agro-ecological region. Among global accessions, distinct groups were observed for Yemen, Zimbabwe and Kenya, but accessions from India and South Africa were not distinctly clustered (Fig. 4b). A mixed group with lines from various countries was also observed.

Population structure

We further characterized the population structure of pearl millet, globally and in Senegal, with principal component analysis (PCA). After filtering for missing data, linkage disequilibrium, and minor allele frequency, we obtained 8377 SNPs to conduct PCA on all accessions, and 7269 SNPs to conduct PCA on the Senegalese landraces. The total amount of genetic variation explained by first ten principal components (PCs) was 11.52 %. The first principal component (PC1), which explained 4.93 % of variation, separated the Senegalese landraces from the global accessions (Fig. 5a). The second PC (PC2), which explained 1.50 % of variation, reflected the geographical distribution of accessions, and separated southwest Asian germplasm (i.e. Yemen) from southeast African germplasm (i.e. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya) (Fig. 5a). While there was extensive geographic structure among global accessions, there was little geographic structure in the Senegalese landraces (Fig. 5b).

Fig. 5
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Population structure of global accessions and Senegalese landraces. a Principal component analysis for 500 pearl millet accessions (first two principal components), others represented all countries that were not listed. b Principal component analysis for 248 Senegalese landraces (first two principal components) when analyzed separately from the global accessions, others represented Niger, Mali, and Mauritania

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Next, we investigated the population structure with model-based estimation of ancestry using ADMIXTURE. The lowest cross-validation error was observed when two genetic groups were assumed (K = 2) (Additional file 4: Figure S1), which divided the whole population into global accessions and Senegalese landraces (Fig. 6). A few individuals from the global accessions were assigned to the Senegalese landrace group, and some Senegalese landraces were classified into groups from the global accessions. No obvious geographic structure was found within Senegalese landraces when the number of groups increased. Global accessions separated into two subgroups (K = 3), one mainly from Yemen and Kenya, and another mainly from southern Africa and the rest of the world. At K = 5, the inbred lines were divided into three groups, corresponding to Yemen, Kenya, and southern Africa and India.

Fig. 6
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Ancestry estimates for pearl millet germplasm. Different colors represent the different subpopulations from ADMIXTURE, and text under the barplot indicates the origins of the corresponding germplasm. The K value left of the figures indicates the assumed number of subpopulations

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Genomic organization of SNP variation

Although a complete physical map is not yet available for the pearl millet genome, insight into the genomic organization of SNP variation can be obtained using the genetic map. In order to assess genome-wide LD decay, we used genetic positions of 244 SNPs obtained from a previously-constructed linkage map [46] to calculate pairwise r 2 for global accessions and Senegalese landraces, respectively (Fig. 7a). LD comparison of between Senegalese landraces and global accessions indicated substantially faster LD decay in Senegalese landraces versus global accessions (Fig. 7b).

Fig. 7
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Linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay with respect to genetic distance. a Pairwise LD against genetic distance on all linkage groups for global accessions and Senegalese landraces. b LD against the genetic distance between 0 ~ 3.5 cM. The lines were plotted using non-linear model to fit the LD decay against the genetic distance

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To characterize the synteny of pearl millet with foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), we performed a BLAST against the foxtail millet and sorghum genomes using the GBS tags that had been used to construct the genetic linkage maps [46]. More tags were mapped on the foxtail millet genome (267) than on the sorghum genome (92) (Fig. 8). The 267 pearl millet tags that mapped to foxtail millet corresponded to 370 genome positions, with 213 tags mapped to unique positions and 54 tags mapped to 2–6 positions. The 92 pearl millet tags that mapped to sorghum corresponded to 122 genome positions, with 73 tags mapped to unique positions and 19 tags mapped to 2–9 positions. The patterns of synteny reflect the closer relationship between pearl millet and foxtail millet as compared to sorghum, and point to large-scale rearrangements in the pearl millet genome after divergence with foxtail millet (Fig. 8).

Fig. 8
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Synteny of pearl millet linkage groups with foxtail millet and sorghum genomes. “LG” represents the linkage groups of pearl millet, with a different line colors for each linkage group. The bottom bars represent the chromosomes of foxtail millet and the top bars represent the chromosomes of sorghum

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Discussion

Effectiveness of GBS to characterize pearl millet genomic diversity

In the present study, we characterized 500 pearl millet accessions at 83,875 SNPs discovered and genotyped using a non-reference GBS approach [42]. For non-model species, the enzyme choice and GBS library construction strategy is important to balance the marker number and coverage [42]. The two enzyme (PstI-MspI) GBS approach is a powerful method for non-model species to identify high density markers [44]. The high outcrossing rates in pearl millet leads to high heterozygosity, which can be difficult to distinguish from sequencing error or mapping error. In order to further increase the sequencing coverage, we also conducted size selection during library construction to reduce genome representation and increase the depth of coverage at each locus [48]. Future studies with greater sequencing depth could increase the accuracy of SNP calls at heterozygous sites [49, 50].

Due to biased mutational processes in plant genomes (e.g. cytosine deamination), the ratio of transitions to transversions for bona fide polymorphisms is expected be much greater than one. Consistent with this expectation, the transition/transversion ratio for the pearl millet SNPs was 1.74 (Table 1). This ratio is somewhat lower than estimates from maize (2.5) [34] and Arabidopsis (2.4) [51]. The difference may be due to biased sampling of the genome based on the enzymes used in GBS or differences in efficacy of selection among the species [52]. Compared to previous studies, which identified little geographic structure [15, 29], extensive geographic structure was observed in global accessions in present study. This suggests that the greater number and density of markers obtained through GBS increased the power to identify moderate population structure. The germplasm used in present study spanned many regions of pearl millet cultivation, but sampling in the Sahelian region was limited to Senegal. While previous studies identified little population structure in germplasm from West Africa through to Sudan [15, 29], future research using genome-wide markers may reveal additional structure in this region.

Effects of genetic bottlenecks on pearl millet diversity

During crop diffusion genetic bottlenecks can occur because of reduced effective population size, if only part of the genetic diversity introduced into the new regions and gene flow with other populations is restricted [53]. Here, we observed low nucleotide diversity in all other countries compared to Senegal, consistent with genetic bottlenecks during spread from West Africa and limited gene exchange among the secondary gene pools (Fig. 3) [54–56]. In addition, the greatest divergence observed was between Senegalese landrace and global accessions (Fig. 4). The relationship between geographic distance from West Africa and level of divergence suggests a major effect of isolation by distance (Fig. 4a). Although bottlenecks and isolation by distance appear to be the dominant processes at a genome scale, some novel variation may also have appeared during adaptation to new environments [57–59]. Further genome scans and association studies will be needed to identify loci responsible for adaptation during diffusion. Understanding the genetic basis of environmental adaptation in this crop may facilitate breeding for increased climate-resilience [60].

Differences in genetic diversity may also be in part due to the comparison of in situ diversity from farmer’s fields (Senegalese landraces) with ex situ collections from crop genebanks (global accessions). Indeed, the inbreeding coefficients of global accessions were substantially higher than the Senegalese landraces (Fig. 3b). Overall, though, the global accessions still contained slightly more genetic diversity than Senegalese landraces, reflecting the large number of countries across Africa, Asia, and the Americas that were represented in the global accessions.

Implication for association studies and breeding in pearl millet

Population structure analysis of crops germplasm is used to guide germplasm utilization in breeding programs and design of QTL mapping experiment [53]. While geographic structure was observed among countries represented in the global accessions, the structure was observed within Senegalese germplasm did not present a geographic pattern (Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6). The population structure in the Senegal collection (Figs. 5 and 6) is partly, but not entirely, due to the inclusion of improved or introduced materials (e.g., ISMI 9507, ISMI 9301, ICMV-IS 89305, ICMV-IS 99001, SOSAT-C88, and ICMV-IS 92222). Admixture with improved or wild pearl millets could also be involved [30, 31]. Understanding the extent of LD also provides information to guide genome wide association studies [55, 61, 62]. Because a pearl millet reference genome is not yet available, we used genetic distances obtained from a published genetic map [46] for a preliminary assessment of LD decay. We recovered 244 of the 314 PstI-MspI GBS markers from the linkage map in our experiment. This is likely due to minor differences in GBS library construction strategies: in the previous study only PCR-based complexity reduction step was used [46], while in our study additional electrophoretic size selection was used. The rapid LD decay in Senegalese landraces compared to global accessions (Fig. 7) likely reflects extensive gene flow within Senegal. The weak population structure and fast LD decay in the Senegalese landraces should make it a good population for genetic dissection of complex traits with genome wide association studies, given high density markers and a reference genome sequence.

Evidence for rearrangement in the pearl millet genome

Analysis of synteny can provide insight into the structural evolution of plant genomes and help guide the development of genomic resources [63]. Although our synteny analysis is limited due to the small number of markers in the linkage map, we can still characterize conservation and rearrangement in pearl millet genome (Fig. 8). We observed extensive synteny between pearl millet and foxtail millet, and to a less extent between pearl millet and sorghum (Fig. 8). This is consistent with the known relationship among these species, and with previous comparative studies of their genetic and physical maps [64, 65]. Also consistent with previous findings, the comparisons of the pearl millet with foxtail millet and sorghum suggested that multiple large-scale rearrangements occurred in pearl millet lineage after divergence with foxtail millet [64, 66].

Conclusions

We genotyped worldwide pearl millet germplasm with non-reference GBS to characterize genomic diversity, population structure, and synteny with other cereals. Our results demonstrated the value of GBS for rapid and cost-effective high-throughput genotyping of pearl millet diversity. In total, 83,875 SNPs were identified for 500 pearl millet accessions. Clear population structure was observed between global accessions and Senegalese landraces and geographic structure was observed among countries but not within Senegal. The comparative genomic analysis indicated extensive synteny between pearl millet and its panicoid cereal relatives, with multiple rearrangements in the pearl millet lineage. The data generated in present study will be a foundation for future genome wide association studies and genomics-assisted breeding in pearl millet.

Methods

Plant materials

Worldwide 511 pearl millet accessions, including a set of 249 pearl millet accessions contributed by the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles; ISRA) and 262 pearl millet accessions (Additional file 1: Table S1) provided by provided by USDA National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) (http://www.ars-grin.gov), were used as plant materials. The 249 pearl millet accessions were collected by ISRA in 1992 to 1993 (Additional file 1: Table S1). Out of these accessions, 205 originate from four agro-ecological regions across Senegal (Fig. 1a) [47], while 38 do not have exact origin information in Senegal and six are introduced from Niger, Mali or Mauritania (Additional file 1: Table S1). In addition to landrace germplasm accessions of Senegalese origin, the materials tested also include 5 improved and 6 exotic pearl millets. The 262 global pearl millet accessions from the NPGS represented about 20 % of the total pearl millet collection held by the NPGS. These accessions mainly originated from African countries, such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya, and South Asian countries, such as Yemen and India (see legend for Fig. 1b). Additionally, eight accessions were from the United States, one accession was from Brazil, three accessions were from Russia, and three accessions were without origin information. The country-level origins of the accessions were mapped with the “maps” package in R 3.1.2 [67].

DNA extraction

The 262 global accessions were grown in a greenhouse of Kansas State University. Approximately 50 mg of leaf tissue from two seedlings for each accession were collected after 15 days of emergence. Each 96-well plate consisted of 95 lines and one blank as a control. The leaves were immediately freeze dried for 2 days utilizing a Labconco FreeZone (Labconco), and were grounded with a ball mill (Retsch). Genomic DNA was extracted with the Biosprint kit (QIAGEN). Two hundred forty nine Senegalese landraces were grown in experimental field in Senegal, and leaves were sampled after geminated. The DNA for 249 Senegalese accessions was extracted with MATAB protocol [68] at ISRA in Senegal, and sent to Kansas State University for further analysis. DNA for all the samples were quantified in plates with PicoGreen and DNA concentrations was normalized to 20 ng/ul with QIAgility robot (QIAGEN).

GBS libraries construction and SNP calling

Two GBS libraries were generated, one multiplexing 380 lines with four blanks as control, and another multiplexing 285 lines with three blanks as control. GBS libraries were constructed following the two-enzyme (PstI and MspI) protocol developed by Poland et al. [39] with modification. For each plate a single random blank well was included for quality control. Genomic DNAs were co-digested with PstI (CTGCAG) and MspI (CCGC) restriction enzymes (New England Biolabs, Ipswitch, MA, USA), then barcoded adapters were ligated to each sample. Instead of NEB4 buffer CutSmart Buffer (New England Biolabs) was used in digestion and ligation. Samples were pooled by plate into a single library and purified with a QIAquick PCR purification kit (QIAGEN, Valencia CA, USA) before PCR amplification. Products in the size range from 250 to 400 bp (including adapter and primer sequence) were selected with the Pippin Prep system (Sage Science). All libraries were adjusted to 4 nM concentration. Four 96-plex libraries (SL1, SL2, SLGA1, and GA1) were pooled to form a 384-plex library (Lib_384) and three 96-plex libraries (SL3, SLGA2, and GA2) were pooled to form a 288-plex library (Lib_288) (Fig. 2a). The 384- and 288-plex libraries were sequenced with single-end Illumina HiSeq2500 (KU Medical Center, University of Kansas). These raw sequencing data have been submitted to the NCBI Short Read Achieve with accession numbers SRR2906941 and SRR2906969. SNP were identified using the TASSEL-UNEAK pipeline [42] in TASSEL 4 package [69], −c option for minimum count of a tag was set as 5, −e option for error tolerance rate was set as 0.03. The Hapmap format data was converted to VCF format with TASSEL 4 [69] for following analysis.

Population genetic analysis

The minor allele frequency was analyzed with TASSEL 4 [69]. The neutral allele expectation distribution was conducted with the methods that developed by Fu, Griffiths and Tavaré [70, 71]. The nucleotide diversity (π) and inbreeding coefficients for each population, and the F ST between populations were calculated using vcftools v0.1.13 [72]. The genetic diversity was compared between global accessions and Senegalese landraces with t-test in R 3.1.2 [67].

Two approaches were used to infer the population structure. First, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was carried out using SNPRelate_1.0.1 R package [73]. The snpgdsLDpruning function was used to filter the SNP data with following options: method = “corr”, ld.threshold = 0.5, maf = 0.05, missing = 0.8. The snpgdsPCA function was used to conduct PCA with default setting. The SNP data used for PCA was extracted with custom R script and was used for the second population structure analysis method, a model based estimate of ancestry, which was carried out using the ADMIXTURE 1.23 [74], with the number of genetic groups range from K = 1 to K = 10. The optimal number of subpopulations was determined with lowest Cross-validation error. The VCF format data was converted to data format required by ADMIXTURE 1.23 using PLINK 1.07 [75].

The genetic distance matrix between individuals was generated and neighbor joining tree was constructed using TASSEL 4 [69], and was visualized with APE 3.0-11 package [76]. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay of global accessions and Senegalese landraces was compared based on previous genetics map [46]. Due to lack of reference genome, we mapped the SNP tags of our data on the tags that have been mapped on linkage maps [46] that was constructed with PstI-MspI GBS to obtain the genetic position. The LD of each pair of SNPs was calculated using TASSEL 4 [50].

Comparative genomic with foxtail millet and sorghum

The reference genomes for foxtail millet and sorghum (v1.4) were downloaded from BGI-Shenzhen (http://foxtailmillet.genomics.org.cn/) [66] and Phytozome (http://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov) [77, 78], respectively. SNP tags from linkage maps [46] were mapped to the reference genomes using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) [79] with a E-value cutoff of 1e-5. Synteny between pearl millet and foxtail millet, sorghum were visualized with custom R scripts [67].

Ethics

No research involving human subjects, human data, or regulated vertebrates or invertebrates was included in this study.

Abbreviations

AFLP:

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

BLAST:

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

GBS:

Genotyping-by-sequencing

LD:

Linkage disequilibrium

PCA:

Principal components analysis

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

RFLP:

Restriction fragment length polymorphism

SNP:

Single-nucleotide polymorphism

UNEAK:

Universal network enable analysis kit

VCF:

Variant call format

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BM was a Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellow supported by a grant from the US Department of Agriculture (Foreign Agricultural Service) to RP and GPM. GPM was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-13-00047. This study is made possible through support by the American People provided to the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet through USAID. The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. government. We thank Jesse Poland and Shuangye Wu for providing adapters, Alina Ahkunova for help on library construction, and Francois Belzile for providing the GBS data from the biparental population. We thank the farmer cooperators for providing germplasm.

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    Zhenbin Hu, Ramasamy Perumal, Sophie Bouchet, P. V. Vara Prasad & Geoffrey P. Morris

  2. Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agriculture, Université de Thiès, Thiès, BP 296, Senegal

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BM, RP and GPM conceived and planned the study. MCG and OS collected and extracted DNA for the Senegalese landraces. PVVP developed the global accession panel. ZH, BM, and SB extracted the DNA for the global accessions and performed the genotyping-by-sequencing. ZH performed the data analyses. ZH and GPM wrote the manuscript with input from BM and MCG. GPM supervised the research. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The germplasm used in this study. (XLSX 46 kb)

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Genotyping by sequencing data and SNP statistics. (DOCX 13 kb)

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Minor allele frequency distribution for Senegalese landraces (A) and global accessions (B). The red lines represent the expected neutral allele frequency distribution. (PPTX 187 kb)

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Cross-validation error for model-based ancestry estimates. The cross-validation error is lowest when K = 2. (PPTX 63 kb)

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Hu, Z., Mbacké, B., Perumal, R. et al. Population genomics of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.): Comparative analysis of global accessions and Senegalese landraces. BMC Genomics 16, 1048 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-2255-0

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