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The Plant Cell: 31 (7)
Jul 2019

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White clover (Trifolium repens) is an allopolyploid legume found in temperate grasslands around the globe. It is also valued in agriculture as a high-quality animal feed and source of biologically fixed nitrogen. By contrast, the diploid progenitors of white clover are confined to extreme and specialized European niches: one is found in high alpine screes; the other on the coast within 100 m of the shore. Griffiths et al. (pp. 1466–1487) sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of white clover and its progenitors to gain insight into the genesis of white clover and the consequences of allopolyploidization. These data confirmed the identity of the progenitors and revealed that white clover originated ~15–28,000 years ago during the last European glaciation when the alpine and coastal species would likely have been co-located in glacial refugia. This work highlights white clover as an example of allopolyploidy-facilitated niche-expansion, where two ancestor genomes, adapted and confined to very different and highly specialized environments, expanded to a global presence following merging during the last European glaciation. The photo shows white clover flowers in a glasshouse at AgResearch Grasslands, New Zealand. Photo credit: Sciencelenz, AgResearch.

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