by Popchenko Mikhail | Gladysh Natalya | Volodin Vsevolod | Bogdanova Alina | Krasnov George | Kudryavtseva Anna | Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia | Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia | 1. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia; 2. Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia | Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia | 1. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia; 2.Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia | 1. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia; 2. Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str., 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia
The object of the study is white poplar (Populus alba L.), an evolutionarily young dioecious species of woody plants distributed in temperate and subtropical regions of Eurasia, including Russia. We present the results of phylogeographic analysis based on full-genome sequencing. We identify three major centers of origin that may have served as the basis for the formation of modern populations: southern Europe, the Caucasus, and western Siberia. Natural Eastern European populations arose as a result of the simultaneous penetration of Southern European and Western Siberian populations into this territory, without the participation of Caucasian populations. Introduced populations in this territory are formed by plants with South European or mixed South European and Caucasian genetic material, while West Siberian genetic material is not noted in them. The results obtained reveal the history of distribution and development of the species and can be used to search for source material for breeding.
