SNP data set of Peruvian highland maize races

Peruvian maize exhibits significant morphological diversity, with landraces cultivated from sea level up to 3,500 meters above sea level. Previous research based on morphological descriptors identified at least 52 Peruvian maize races, but their genetic diversity and population structure remain largely unknown. In this study, we used genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to infer the genetic structure and diversity of 423 maize accessions from the Genebank of La Molina National Agrarian University (UNALM). These accessions represent nine races and one sub-race, along with 15 open-pollinated lines (purple corn) and two yellow maize hybrids. We obtained 14,235 high-quality SNPs distributed along the 10 maize chromosomes. Gene diversity ranged from 0.33 (Pachia) to 0.362 (Ancashino), with Cusco showing the lowest inbreeding coefficient (0.205) and Ancashino the highest (0.274) among the landraces. Population divergence (FST) was very low (mean = 0.017), indicating extensive interbreeding among Pe..., , , # SNP data set of Peruvian highland maize races

We examined (i) 406 accessions of nine races and one sub-race of Peruvian maize that are currently cultivated in 10 Andean geographic departments of Peru, (ii) 15 open-pollinated (OP) purple maize lines and (iii) two yellow maize hybrids (423 individuals in total).

Genotyping by sequencing libraries was created following Elshire et al. (2011) protocol. Genomic DNA was digested with the *ApeKI* enzyme and fragments were ligated to Illumina sequencing adapters and also with sequence barcodes that are unique to each sample, which allows the recovery of sample identity for each sequenced DNA fragment after multiplexing. The pooled samples were sequenced on the Illumina NovaSeq 600 platform from which 100 bp single-end sequences reads were obtained. Quality of the raw data was examined with FastQC v0.11.7 software (Andrews, 2010), then we employed the TASSEL v5.2.42 bioinformatic pipeline (Bradbury et al., 2007; Glaubitz et al., 2014) for SNP...