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Domestication and a history of breeding have shaped the distribution of deleterious mutations across the genome. Accurately resolving these variants offers a compelling avenue to accelerate crop improvement through breeding or genetic engineering. We combine three evolutionary methods to identify putatively deleterious derived mutations: angiosperm-wide DNA language deep learning model (PlantCaduceus), fine-scale evolutionary rates from Amaranthaceae plant family sequence alignments using PAML and PhyloP. We defined a high-confidence set of \u223c5k deleterious variants enriched for alleles under negative selection. We then evaluate these deleterious mutations across a multi-study panel of more than 1,900 whole-genome sequenced wild and cultivated beet accessions. We found that domesticated beet accessions exhibit higher deleterious load relative to wild maritima, yet sugar beet carries significantly fewer deleterious variants than other cultivated beet crops. Historical trends show a decline in genetic load across more than a century of sugar beet entries in the US NPGS, likely reflecting sustained purging during modern breeding. 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