Haplotype Blocks Are Associated With Rapid Local Adaptation to Environmental Shifts in Wild Barley
Evgenii Potapenko, David Schwarts, Tali Mandel, Nimrod Ashkenazy, Dana Fuerst, Guy Atsmon, Sagi Snir, Abraham B Korol, Michael B Kantar, Avi Bar‐Massada, Sariel Hübner · 2026
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Evgenii Potapenko and ten co-authors link, in 2026 work, blocks of co-inherited genes to fast local tuning in wild barley. The Levant, the crop's birth land, is drying fast, so its wild kin must shift or fade. The team split land effects from kin drift by a set sampling plan.
Three hundred wild plants were read, and thousands of their young were grown and scored over three years. Tuning sat in gene clusters that pass as blocks, rich in stress and bloom-time genes. Six such blocks stood out, each in two main forms. Past site logs then flagged which lands' kin face the worst odds in the climate to come. The blocks' join is the speed trick, they say.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Evgenii Potapenko, David Schwarts, Tali Mandel, Nimrod Ashkenazy, Dana Fuerst, Guy Atsmon, Sagi Snir, Abraham B Korol, Michael B Kantar, Avi Bar‐Massada, Sariel Hübner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 93 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |