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Data and code from: Modern pea (Lathyrus oleraceus) cultivars exhibit significantly lower genetic diversity relative to landraces, garden cultivars and genebank accessions

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Abstract

Pea (Lathyrus oleraceus Lam.), formerly (Pisum sativum L.), is an important grain legume, cultivated worldwide for both food and feed purposes. Our genetic population study included 304 accessions, comprising 18 modern field pea cultivars and 22 garden pea cultivars. All accessions were genotyped using Diversity Arrays Technology sequencing genotyping. This yielded 30,791 single nucleotide polymorphic markers after quality control. The genotype dataset is available in raw-data format as supplied by Diversity Arrays Technology, and as cleaned and quality-controlled formats prepared for easy use. The cleaned and quality-controlled dataset is available in two formats to increase user applicability (.bed/.bim./.fam)-format and (.ped/.map)-format. Additionally, the scripts summarising the work presented in the article are available. The results of the analysis are briefly that: all modern cultivars clustered together in the Principal Coordinate Analysis plots and were resolved as a monophyletic group with high bootstrap support in the neighbor-joining tree. The garden peas were dispersed and intermixed with historic landraces of European origin. Nepalese and Indian landraces, in conjunction with Abyssinian pea accessions, were resolved as a sister group to the rest of the population.