Now published. Led by Dr. Akanksha Singh, we studied what happened to grain amaranth once it arrived to India. Surprisingly differentiation stayed high and populations adapted individually. No gene flow, high diversity.
Evolutionary Applicationsntroduced populations can conserve lost genetic variation. The introduction of grain amaranth to India shows how crop evolution continued outside the domestication area and could enable future adaptation 🌱 w/ @mgstetter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/eva.70124