Potato domestication

1. Potato domestication From: The potato treasure of the Andes Mercedes Ames

2. Outline • Introduction • Classification of cultivated potatoes • The origin of the cultivated potato • Single domestication based on AFLP • Domestication traits • The potato in the Andes and Europe

3. Introduction Solanaceae family 4th crop in production worldwide Range of ploidy: 2X, 3X, 4X and 5X High morphological diversity with a great variety of shapes and colors of tubers Morphology similarities between wild and cultivated potatoes

4. Introduction Native of the Andes of South America Landraces growing from western Venezuela to northern Argentina and South Central Chile Landrace populations in Mexico are post-Columbian introductions

5. Classification of cultivated potatoes 3 artificial groups based on use: - Wild (highly diverse) - Cultivated indigenous (Andes and southern Chile) - Modern cultivars Ploidy became a taxonomic trait for cultivated potato Andean fields contain mixtures of landraces Hybridization with wild potatoes S. ajanhuiri (2n=2x=24) S. chaucha (2n=3x=36) S. curtilobum (2n=5x=60) S. juzepczukii (2n=3x=36) S. phureja (2n=2X=24) S. goniocalyx (2n=2X=24) S. stenotomum (2n=2X=24) S. tuberosum ssp. tuberosum (2n=4X=48) ssp. andigenum (2n=4X=48) Most accepted taxonomic treatment “The potato eaters” Vincent Van Gogh 1885

6. Poor morphological support for previous classifications Spooner and Huaman, 2002) S. tuberosum Only species because: - Reticulate origins - Multiple origins - Continuous hybridization Groups classification: Ajanhuiri group Chaucha group Curtilobum group Juzepczukii group Phureja group Stenotomum group Chilotanum group= ssp. tuberosum Andigenum group

7. Gene pool structure analyses I Evidences for structure in cultivated potato: 4x adg+tbr(chi) – 2x phu+stn+gon+sol – 2x ajh – 3x juz – 5x cur From Dr. Marc Ghislain’s presentation at the 2ndSolanaceae Genome workshop 2005, Ischia - Italy

8. Cluster analysis on 531 landraces x 24 SSR markers: From Dr. Marc Ghislain’s presentation at the 2nd Solanaceae Genome workshop 2005, Ischia - Italy

9. From Dr. Marc Ghislain’s presentation at the 2nd Solanaceae Genome workshop 2005, Ischia - Italy

10. Arguments about the origins of the potato: Juzepczuk and Bukasov Chilean potato landraces originated from indigenous primitive chilean 4X wild species Salaman S. tuberosum ssp. tuberosum in Chile arose from ssp. andigenum from the Andes directly or through a cross with an unidentified wild species • Cytoplasmic types of chilean landraces of S. tuberosum and modern potatoes were identical • 9 cytoplasmic factors that separate spp. andigenum from ssp. tuberosum that cause sterility in the presence of specific chromosomal genes, abnormal anthers and pollen, anthers fused to styles, and female sterility. Factors only expressed : tbr x adg (Crosses not succeed ) and not when adg x tbr (crosses succeed) Grun origin of the cultivated potato through selection from a brevicaule-complex and subsequent hybridization events involving a number of unknown diploid species.

11. Wild species S. acaule (4X) S. megistacrolobum (2X) S. sparsipilum (2X) S. leptophyes (2X) S. stenotomum (2X) Cultivated species S. tuberosum ssp. andigena (4X) S. ajanhuiri (Yari) (2X) S. chaucha (3x) (Ajawiri) S. phureja (2X) S. curtilobum (5X) S. juzepczukii (3X) Arguments about the origins of the potato: Hawkes identifies S. leptophyes as the progenitor of S. stenotomum, the species he designated as the most primitive of the cultivated species. Thus the cultivated potato seems to have originated from a group of wild tuber-bearing Solanum species such as S. brevicaule, S. leptophyes, S. canasense and others. Hawkes 1990. The potato: Evolution, Biodiversity and Genetic Resources

12. T A C W S Hosaka : The cpDNA evidences 5 cpDNA genotypes: A, C, S, T and W Non of them specie-specific, but present in different frequency Andigenum: mostly type A Stenotomum: all types but type S more frequent Overlap of types in: Stenotomum, S. bukasovii, S. canasense, S. candolleanum, S. multidissectum and S. leptophyes Stenotomum: most primitive Ancestral species complex Tuberosum: T type S. tarijense: T-type possible female progenitor of Tuberosum.

13. The brevicaule-complex: the wild ancestors of the cultivated potato First recognized by Ugent as a taxonomically confusing group of putative ancestors of the cultivated potato. Endemic to central Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina. All of them show: (1) pinnately dissected leaves (2) round fruits (3) rotate to rotate-pentagonal corollas (4) largely sexually compatible (5) EBN matches ploidy (6) 2X, 3X, 6X (7) grow as weeds and in complexes with cultivated potatoes • Only 3 wild taxa recognized: • The peruvian populations • The Bolivian and the Argentinian • S. oplocense (Bolivia and Argentina) Van Den Berg et al. 1988. Am.Journal of Bot. 85(1):92-109

14. 362 accessions total 261 wild 98 landraces S. etuberosum S. palustre Sect. Petota Sect. Etuberosum A single domestication for potato based on AFLPs (Spooner et al, 2005 PNAS 102:41) Materials and Methods: Wild: S. brevicaule complex S. stoloniferum (4x) Cultivated: Phureja group (2X) Stenotomum group (2X) Andigenum group (4X) Chilotanum group (4X) AFLP genotyping Phylogenetic analysis

15. Results: • Concordance with morphology defining: • - Northern: species from Peru + S. achacasense (northern Bolivia) • - Southern: species from Bolivia and northern Argentina • Fail to resolve many species within the complex • Northern: • - S. abancayense, S. bukasovii, S. canasense, S. leptophyes, S. marinasense • S. multidissectum, S. multiinterruptum • - S. candolleanum and S. pampasense (form clades) • Southern: • - S. ambosinum, S. brevicaule, S. canasense, S. leptophyes, S. oplocense, S. sparsipilum, S. sucrense • - S. avilesii, S. hoopesii, S. incamayonense, S. spegazzinii, S. ugentii, S. verneii, • S. vidaurrei (form clades) S. tarijense previously hypothesized as the likely maternal contributor to the Chilotanum group, was group in a different clade with other related species: S. berthaultii and S. chacoense

16. Strict consensus parsimony cladogram

17. Southern Brevicaule group plus other species Cultivated species Northern Brevicaule group Clade 3 Outgroups Summarizing the tree

18. Single domestication for potato • All landrace (diploids and polyploids) form a monophyletic clade derived from the northern members of the S. brevicaule complex. • S. brevicaule northern group poorly defined, maybe they can be reduced to a single species as S. bukasovii. • This single origin differs from previous domestication hypotheses in: • (i) a single origin supported here rather than a series of multiple independent origins. • (ii) the origin is confined to the northern component of the S. brevicaule complex, rather than to other southern complex species that have been commonly mentioned as progenitors (S. sparsipilum and S. vernei) • “Single” origin meaning an origin from a single species , or its progenitor S. bukasovii in the broad area of southern Peru. • Potatoes were spread through the Andes from Peru both north and south

19. Points of discussion • The use of anonymous markers data to infer crop origins ? • Not all the cultivars groups were included in this analysis: what about Ajanhuiri Curtilobum Chaucha and Juzepczukii groups? • cp DNA data? Is the effect of gene flow? hibridizations? • What about the relationships among the different groups, this origin involved an ancestral group ? S. stenotomum? polyploidization?

20. Domestication syndrome traits in some Solanaceae Seems to be controlled by a limited number of genes It seems that domestication of the Solanaceae has been driven by mutations in a very limited number of target loci with major phenotypic effects

21. Potato domestication Selection for above-ground characters: Higher vigor Selection for underground characters: Shorter stolons Larger tubers Colored and shaped tubers Reduction of bitter tuber glycoalcaloids α-solanina and α-chaconina levels in wild species from Series Tuberosa (S. bukasovii in particular) is consistent with the occurrence of these compounds in S. stenotomum and S. tuberosum (chilotanum) (Johns and Alonso, 1989) But reduction of glycoalcaloid content not necessarily had to be direct, either selection for size (+ tuber size - concentration of glycoalcaloids to increase in water and carbohydrate) or reduced toxicity. (Johns and Alonso, 1989)

22. The Potato in the Andes 1st cultivated potatoes from central Andes of Peru and Bolivia 6000 – 1000 years ago Preferences and selection by individual farmers may explain some of the diversity of potato Cultural factors, culinary preferences and the place of the potato in the Andean folklore are significant Folk taxonomy is accurate but it seems to underestimate the actual diversity The potato treasure of the Andes: from Agriculture to Culture

23. The potato in Europe First records of potato out of south America 1562 in Canary Islands, Spain Second record: 1570 Sevilla, Spain Great social influence Hypotheses: The potato eaters (www.vggallery.com) • 1st European modern cultivars were introductions of chilean landraces • 1st modern potatoes were introduced from the Andes to Europe as S. tuberosum ssp. andigenum, which in Europe rapidly evolve into a wider leaf morphology with long-day adaptation. • Late blight (Phytophtora infestans (Mont.))killed most tuberosum-evolved andigenum clones in 1840’s, modern potato was mass selected and bred for blight • 3. Early introduction were from both the Andes and from Chile, the Chilean introductions became the prominent type before the 1840’s. …. With the development of modern cultivars Now is almost everywhere….

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