Youlin Zhu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced 111 fragments from 102 genes in four soybean populations representing the populations before and after genetic bottlenecks and showed that soybean has lost many rare sequence variants and has undergone numerous allele frequency changes throughout its history.

TL;DR: It is shown that soybean has lost many rare sequence variants and has undergone numerous allele frequency changes throughout its history, and that the diversity lost through the genetic bottlenecks of introduction and plant breeding was mostly due to the small number of Asian introductions and not the artificial selection subsequently imposed by selective breeding.

TL;DR: The low level of LD and the limited haplotype diversity suggested that the genome of any given soybean accession is a mosaic of three or four haplotypes, thereby supporting the suggestion of relatively limited genetic variation in cultivated soybean.

TL;DR: The objective of this study was to develop and test soybean SSR markers to create a database of locus-specific markers with a high likelihood of polymorphism and to examine the likelihood that primers in the database would function to Amplifying DNAs of seven diverse Glycine max (L.) Merr genotypes.

TL;DR: Performance of various test statistics suggests that differentiation‐based (FST) methods are robust for detecting complete hard sweeps, and that LD‐based strategies perform well for identifying recent/ongoing sweeps; however, none of the test statistics detected a known soft sweep the authors previously documented at the domestication gene Dt1.