Genetic diversity of Acrocomia totai
Acrocomia palms are neotropical species endemic to the Americas that are of significant interest as a source of oil. Acrocomia totai is among the most common palm species in the central region of South America and is well adapted to subtropical conditions, but has never been investigated across the whole area of its natural distribution. The objective of the present work was to assess the genomic diversity of A. totai in the total area of distribution, for which we sequenced genomic DNA from dried-leaf material by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and subsequently analyzed SNP variants to make geographic inferences.