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Maričević M, Španić V, Bukan M, Rajković B, Šarčević H. Diallel Analysis of Wheat Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight and Mycotoxin Accumulation under Conditions of Artificial Inoculation and Natural Infection. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1022. [PMID: 38611551 PMCID: PMC11013806 DOI: 10.3390/plants13071022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 03/30/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Breeding resistant wheat cultivars to Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium spp., is the best method for controlling the disease. The aim of this study was to estimate general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) for FHB resistance in a set of eight genetically diverse winter wheat cultivars to identify potential donors of FHB resistance for crossing. FHB resistance of parents and F1 crosses produced by the half diallel scheme was evaluated under the conditions of artificial inoculation with F. graminearum and natural infection. Four FHB related traits were assessed: visual rating index (VRI), Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK), and deoxynivalenol and zearalenone content in the harvested grain samples. Significant GCA effects for FHB resistance were observed for the parental cultivars with high FHB resistance for all studied FHB resistance related traits. The significant SCA and mid-parent heterosis effects for FHB resistance were rare under both artificial inoculation and natural infection conditions and involved crosses between parents with low FHB resistance. A significant negative correlation between grain yield under natural conditions and VRI (r = -0.43) and FDK (r = -0.47) under conditions of artificial inoculation was observed in the set of the studied F1 crosses. Some crosses showed high yield and high FHB resistance, indicating that breeding of FHB resistant genotypes could be performed without yield penalty. These crosses involved resistant cultivars with significant GCA effects for FHB resistance indicating that that they could be used as good donors of FHB resistance.
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- Marko Maričević
- Bc Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops, Rugvica, Dugoselska 7, 10370 Dugo Selo, Croatia; (M.M.); (B.R.)
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- Agricultural Institute Osijek, Južno Predgrađe 17, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska Cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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- Bc Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops, Rugvica, Dugoselska 7, 10370 Dugo Selo, Croatia; (M.M.); (B.R.)
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska Cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
- Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska Cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Garcia-Abadillo J, Morales L, Buerstmayr H, Michel S, Lillemo M, Holzapfel J, Hartl L, Akdemir D, Carvalho HF, Isidro-Sánchez J. Alternative scoring methods of fusarium head blight resistance for genomic assisted breeding. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:1057914. [PMID: 36714712 PMCID: PMC9876611 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1057914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum.L) that causes yield losses and produces mycotoxins which could easily exceed the limits of the EU regulations. Resistance to FHB has a complex genetic architecture and accurate evaluation in breeding programs is key to selecting resistant varieties. The Area Under the Disease Progress Curve (AUDPC) is one of the commonly metric used as a standard methodology to score FHB. Although efficient, AUDPC requires significant costs in phenotyping to cover the entire disease development pattern. Here, we show that there are more efficient alternatives to AUDPC (angle, growing degree days to reach 50% FHB severity, and FHB maximum variance) that reduce the number of field assessments required and allow for fair comparisons between unbalanced evaluations across trials. Furthermore, we found that the evaluation method that captures the maximum variance in FHB severity across plots is the most optimal approach for scoring FHB. In addition, results obtained on experimental data were validated on a simulated experiment where the disease progress curve was modeled as a sigmoid curve with known parameters and assessment protocols were fully controlled. Results show that alternative metrics tested in this study captured key components of quantitative plant resistance. Moreover, the new metrics could be a starting point for more accurate methods for measuring FHB in the field. For example, the optimal interval for FHB evaluation could be predicted using prior knowledge from historical weather data and FHB scores from previous trials. Finally, the evaluation methods presented in this study can reduce the FHB phenotyping burden in plant breeding with minimal losses on signal detection, resulting in a response variable available to use in data-driven analysis such as genome-wide association studies or genomic selection.
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- J. Garcia-Abadillo
- Department of Biotechnology and Plant Biology - Centre for Biotechnology and Plant Genomics (CBGP) - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Tulln an der Donau, Austria
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Tulln an der Donau, Austria
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Tulln an der Donau, Austria
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway
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- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding, Freising, Germany
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- CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- Department of Biotechnology and Plant Biology - Centre for Biotechnology and Plant Genomics (CBGP) - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology and Plant Biology - Centre for Biotechnology and Plant Genomics (CBGP) - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
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Gohar S, Sajjad M, Zulfiqar S, Liu J, Wu J, Rahman MU. Domestication of newly evolved hexaploid wheat—A journey of wild grass to cultivated wheat. Front Genet 2022; 13:1022931. [PMID: 36263418 PMCID: PMC9574122 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1022931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Domestication of wheat started with the dawn of human civilization. Since then, improvement in various traits including resistance to diseases, insect pests, saline and drought stresses, grain yield, and quality were improved through selections by early farmers and then planned hybridization after the discovery of Mendel’s laws. In the 1950s, genetic variability was created using mutagens followed by the selection of superior mutants. Over the last 3 decades, research was focused on developing superior hybrids, initiating marker-assisted selection and targeted breeding, and developing genetically modified wheat to improve the grain yield, tolerance to drought, salinity, terminal heat and herbicide, and nutritive quality. Acceptability of genetically modified wheat by the end-user remained a major hurdle in releasing into the environment. Since the beginning of the 21st century, changing environmental conditions proved detrimental to achieving sustainability in wheat production particularly in developing countries. It is suggested that high-tech phenotyping assays and genomic procedures together with speed breeding procedures will be instrumental in achieving food security beyond 2050.
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- Sasha Gohar
- Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Department of Biotechnology, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Department of Biotechnology, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China
- *Correspondence: Jiajie Wu, ; Mehboob-ur- Rahman,
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- Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Department of Biotechnology, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan
- *Correspondence: Jiajie Wu, ; Mehboob-ur- Rahman,
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Schwarzwälder L, Thorwarth P, Zhao Y, Reif JC, Longin CFH. Hybrid wheat: quantitative genetic parameters and heterosis for quality and rheological traits as well as baking volume. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:1131-1141. [PMID: 35112144 PMCID: PMC9033736 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04039-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Heterosis effects for dough quality and baking volume were close to zero. However, hybrids have a higher grain yield at a given level of bread making quality compared to their parental lines. Bread wheat cultivars have been selected according to numerous quality traits to fulfill the requirements of the bread making industry. These include beside protein content and quality also rheological traits and baking volume. We evaluated 35 male and 73 female lines and 119 of their single-cross hybrids at three different locations for grain yield, protein content, sedimentation value, extensograph traits and baking volume. No significant differences (p < 0.05) were found in the mean comparisons of males, females and hybrids, except for higher grain yield and lower protein content in the hybrids. Mid-parent and better-parent heterosis values were close to zero and slightly negative, respectively, for baking volume and extensograph traits. However, the majority of heterosis values resulted in the finding that hybrids had higher grain yield than lines for a given level of baking volume, sedimentation value or energy value of extensograph. Due to the high correlation with the mid-parent values (r > 0.70), an initial prediction of hybrid performance based on line per se performance for protein content, sedimentation value, most traits of the extensograph and baking volume is possible. The low variance due to specific combining ability effects for most quality traits points toward an additive gene action requires quality selection within both heterotic groups. Consequently, hybrid wheat can combine high grain yield with high bread making quality. However, the future use of wheat hybrids strongly depends on the establishment of a cost-efficient and reliable seed production system.
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- Lea Schwarzwälder
- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 21, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Senior Research Lead Biostatistics and Data Science, KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA, Grimsehlstr. 31, 37574 Einbeck, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 21, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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Fang C, Wang Z, Wang P, Song Y, Ahmad A, Dong F, Hong D, Yang G. Heterosis Derived From Nonadditive Effects of the BnFLC Homologs Coordinates Early Flowering and High Yield in Rapeseed ( Brassica napus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 12:798371. [PMID: 35251061 PMCID: PMC8893081 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.798371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Early flowering facilitates crops to adapt multiple cropping systems or growing regions with a short frost-free season; however, it usually brings an obvious yield loss. In this study, we identified that the three genes, namely, BnFLC.A2, BnFLC.C2, and BnFLC.A3b, are the major determinants for the flowering time (FT) variation of two elite rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) accessions, i.e., 616A and R11. The early-flowering alleles (i.e., Bnflc.a2 and Bnflc.c2) and late-flowering allele (i.e., BnFLC.A3b) from R11 were introgressed into the recipient parent 616A through a breeding strategy of marker-assisted backcross, giving rise to eight homozygous near-isogenic lines (NILs) associated with these three loci and 19 NIL hybrids produced by the mutual crossing of these NILs. Phenotypic investigations showed that NILs displayed significant variations in both FT and plant yield (PY). Notably, genetic analysis indicated that BnFLC.A2, BnFLC.C2, and BnFLC.A3b have additive effects of 1.446, 1.365, and 1.361 g on PY, respectively, while their dominant effects reached 3.504, 2.991, and 3.284 g, respectively, indicating that the yield loss caused by early flowering can be successfully compensated by exploring the heterosis of FT genes in the hybrid NILs. Moreover, we further validated that the heterosis of FT genes in PY was also effective in non-NIL hybrids. The results demonstrate that the exploration of the potential heterosis underlying the FT genes can coordinate early flowering (maturation) and high yield in rapeseed (B. napus L.), providing an effective strategy for early flowering breeding in crops.
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- Caochuang Fang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China
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Melonek J, Duarte J, Martin J, Beuf L, Murigneux A, Varenne P, Comadran J, Specel S, Levadoux S, Bernath-Levin K, Torney F, Pichon JP, Perez P, Small I. The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1036. [PMID: 33589621 PMCID: PMC7884431 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21225-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system involves the Rf1 and Rf3 genes that restore fertility of wheat plants carrying Triticum timopheevii-type cytoplasmic male sterility (T-CMS). Here, by genetic mapping and comparative sequence analyses, we identify Rf1 and Rf3 candidates that can restore normal pollen production in transgenic wheat plants carrying T-CMS. We show that Rf1 and Rf3 bind to the mitochondrial orf279 transcript and induce cleavage, preventing expression of the CMS trait. The identification of restorer genes in wheat is an important step towards the development of hybrid wheat varieties based on a CMS-Rf system. The characterisation of their mode of action brings insights into the molecular basis of CMS and fertility restoration in plants.
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- Joanna Melonek
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.
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Hybrid Breeding for MLN Resistance: Heterosis, Combining Ability, and Hybrid Prediction. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9040468. [PMID: 32276322 PMCID: PMC7238107 DOI: 10.3390/plants9040468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Revised: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Prior knowledge on heterosis and quantitative genetic parameters on maize lethal necrosis (MLN) can help the breeders to develop numerous resistant or tolerant hybrids with optimum resources. Our objectives were to (1) estimate the quantitative genetic parameters for MLN disease severity, (2) investigate the efficiency of the prediction of hybrid performance based on parental per se and general combining ability (GCA) effects, and (3) examine the potential of hybrid prediction for MLN resistance or tolerance based on markers. Fifty elite maize inbred lines were selected based on their response to MLN under artificial inoculation. Crosses were made in a half diallel mating design to produce 307 F1 hybrids. All hybrids were evaluated in MLN quarantine facility in Naivasha, Kenya for two seasons under artificial inoculation. All 50 inbreds were genotyped with genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) SNPs. The phenotypic variation was significant for all traits and the heritability was moderate to high. We observed that hybrids were superior to the mean performance of the parents for disease severity (−14.57%) and area under disease progress curve (AUDPC) (14.9%). Correlations were significant and moderate between line per se and GCA; and mean of parental value with hybrid performance for both disease severity and AUDPC value. Very low and negative correlation was observed between parental lines marker based genetic distance and heterosis. Nevertheless, the correlation of GCA effects was very high with hybrid performance which can suggests as a good predictor of MLN resistance. Genomic prediction of hybrid performance for MLN is high for both traits. We therefore conclude that there is potential for prediction of hybrid performance for MLN. Overall, the estimated quantitative genetic parameters suggest that through targeted approach, it is possible to develop outstanding lines and hybrids for MLN resistance.
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Pallotta MA, Warner P, Kouidri A, Tucker EJ, Baes M, Suchecki R, Watson-Haigh N, Okada T, Garcia M, Sandhu A, Singh M, Wolters P, Albertsen MC, Cigan AM, Baumann U, Whitford R. Wheat ms5 male-sterility is induced by recessive homoeologous A and D genome non-specific lipid transfer proteins. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 99:673-685. [PMID: 31009129 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Nuclear male-sterile mutants with non-conditional, recessive and strictly monogenic inheritance are useful for both hybrid and conventional breeding systems, and have long been a research focus for many crops. In allohexaploid wheat, however, genic redundancy results in rarity of such mutants, with the ethyl methanesulfonate-induced mutant ms5 among the few reported to date. Here, we identify TaMs5 as a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored lipid transfer protein required for normal pollen exine development, and by transgenic complementation demonstrate that TaMs5-A restores fertility to ms5. We show ms5 locates to a centromere-proximal interval and has a sterility inheritance pattern modulated by TaMs5-D but not TaMs5-B. We describe two allelic forms of TaMs5-D, one of which is non-functional and confers mono-factorial inheritance of sterility. The second form is functional but shows incomplete dominance. Consistent with reduced functionality, transcript abundance in developing anthers was found to be lower for TaMs5-D than TaMs5-A. At the 3B homoeolocus, we found only non-functional alleles among 178 diverse hexaploid and tetraploid wheats that include landraces and Triticum dicoccoides. Apparent ubiquity of non-functional TaMs5-B alleles suggests loss-of-function arose early in wheat evolution and, therefore, at most knockout of two homoeoloci is required for sterility. This work provides genetic information, resources and tools required for successful implementation of ms5 sterility in breeding systems for bread and durum wheats.
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- Margaret A Pallotta
- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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Okada T, Jayasinghe JEARM, Eckermann P, Watson-Haigh NS, Warner P, Hendrikse Y, Baes M, Tucker EJ, Laga H, Kato K, Albertsen M, Wolters P, Fleury D, Baumann U, Whitford R. Effects of Rht-B1 and Ppd-D1 loci on pollinator traits in wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:1965-1979. [PMID: 30899967 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03329-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Elite wheat pollinators are critical for successful hybrid breeding. We identified Rht-B1 and Ppd-D1 loci affecting multiple pollinator traits and therefore represent major targets for improving hybrid seed production. Hybrid breeding has a great potential to significantly boost wheat yields. Ideal male pollinators would be taller in stature, contain many spikelets well-spaced along the spike and exhibit high extrusion of large anthers. Most importantly, flowering time would match with that of the female parent. Available genetic resources for developing an elite wheat pollinator are limited, and the genetic basis for many of these traits is largely unknown. Here, we report on the genetic analysis of pollinator traits using biparental mapping populations. We identified two anther extrusion QTLs of medium effect, one on chromosome 1BL and the other on 4BS coinciding with the semi-dwarfing Rht-B1 locus. The effect of Rht-B1 alleles on anther extrusion is genotype dependent, while tall plant Rht-B1a allele is consistently associated with large anthers. Multiple QTLs were identified at the Ppd-D1 locus for anther length, spikelet number and spike length, with the photoperiod-sensitive Ppd-D1b allele associated with favourable pollinator traits in the populations studied. We also demonstrated that homeoloci, Rht-D1 and Ppd-B1, influence anther length among other traits. These results suggest that combinations of Rht-B1 and Ppd-D1 alleles control multiple pollinator traits and should be major targets of hybrid wheat breeding programs.
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- Takashi Okada
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia.
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia
- Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia
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- Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 1-1-1, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- DuPont-Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- DuPont-Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., 7250 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131-0552, USA
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Plant Genomics Centre, University of Adelaide, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia
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Venske E, dos Santos RS, Busanello C, Gustafson P, Costa de Oliveira A. Bread wheat: a role model for plant domestication and breeding. Hereditas 2019; 156:16. [PMID: 31160891 PMCID: PMC6542105 DOI: 10.1186/s41065-019-0093-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Bread wheat is one of the most important crops in the world. Its domestication coincides with the beginning of agriculture and since then, it has been constantly under selection by humans. Its breeding has followed millennia of cultivation, sometimes with unintended selection on adaptive traits, and later by applying intentional but empirical selective pressures. For more than one century, wheat breeding has been based on science, and has been constantly evolving due to on farm agronomy and breeding program improvements. The aim of this work is to briefly review wheat breeding, with emphasis on the current advances. DISCUSSION Improving yield potential, resistance/tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and baking quality, have been priorities for breeding this cereal, however, new objectives are arising, such as biofortification enhancement. The narrow genetic diversity and complexity of its genome have hampered the breeding progress and the application of biotechnology. Old approaches, such as the introgression from relative species, mutagenesis, and hybrid breeding are strongly reappearing, motivated by an accumulation of knowledge and new technologies. A revolution has taken place regarding the use of molecular markers whereby thousands of plants can be routinely genotyped for thousands of loci. After 13 years, the wheat reference genome sequence and annotation has finally been completed, and is currently available to the scientific community. Transgenics, an unusual approach for wheat improvement, still represents a potential tool, however it is being replaced by gene editing, whose technology along with genomic selection, speed breeding, and high-throughput phenotyping make up the most recent frontiers for future wheat improvement. FINAL CONSIDERATION Agriculture and plant breeding are constantly evolving, wheat has played a major role in these processes and will continue through decades to come.
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- Eduardo Venske
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Center, Crop Science Department, Eliseu Maciel College of Agronomy, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão Campus, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul 96010-610 Brazil
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- Plant Genomics and Breeding Center, Crop Science Department, Eliseu Maciel College of Agronomy, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão Campus, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul 96010-610 Brazil
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- Plant Genomics and Breeding Center, Crop Science Department, Eliseu Maciel College of Agronomy, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão Campus, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul 96010-610 Brazil
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- Plant Sciences Division, 1–32 Agriculture, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
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- Plant Genomics and Breeding Center, Crop Science Department, Eliseu Maciel College of Agronomy, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão Campus, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul 96010-610 Brazil
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Akel W, Rapp M, Thorwarth P, Würschum T, Longin CFH. Hybrid durum wheat: heterosis of grain yield and quality traits and genetic architecture of anther extrusion. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:921-932. [PMID: 30498895 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3248-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Hybrid durum has a promising yield potential coupled with good quality, but the efficiency of hybrid seed production must be improved. Hybrid breeding is a tremendous success story in many crops, but has not yet made a breakthrough in wheat, mainly due to inefficient hybrid seed production. In this study, we investigated the heterosis for grain yield and important quality traits in durum wheat of 33 hybrids built up from 24 parental lines, as well as the variation in anther extrusion and its genetic architecture in a vast collection of Central European elite durum lines. Average mid-parent heterosis for grain yield was 5.8%, and the best hybrids had a more than one ton per hectare higher grain yield than the best line cultivars. Furthermore, hybrids had a higher grain yield than lines at a given level of protein content or sedimentation value, underpinning their potential for a sustainable agriculture. However, seed set in our experimental hybrid seed production was low. We therefore evaluated 315 elite durum lines for visual anther extrusion, which revealed a large genetic variance and a heritability of 0.66. Results from association mapping suggest a mainly quantitative inheritance of visual anther extrusion with few putative QTL being identified, the largest one explaining less than 20% of the genotypic variance. Genome-wide prediction taking the four largest putative QTL into account yielded a mean cross-validated prediction ability of 0.55. Consequently, breeding for improved male floral characteristics is feasible in durum wheat, but should be mainly based on phenotypic selection.
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- Wessam Akel
- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Herter CP, Ebmeyer E, Kollers S, Korzun V, Würschum T, Miedaner T. Accuracy of within- and among-family genomic prediction for Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch in winter wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:1121-1135. [PMID: 30552455 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3264-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Genomic selection is an approach that uses whole-genome marker data to predict breeding values of genotypes and holds the potential to improve the genetic gain in breeding programs. In this study, two winter wheat populations (DS1 and DS2) consisting of 438 and 585 lines derived from six and eight bi-parental families, respectively, were genotyped with genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism markers and phenotyped for Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch severity, plant height and heading date. We used ridge regression-best linear unbiased prediction to investigate the potential of genomic selection under different selection scenarios: prediction across each winter wheat population, within- and among-family prediction in each population, and prediction from DS1 to DS2 and vice versa. Moreover, we compared a full random model to a model incorporating quantitative trait loci (QTL) as fixed effects. The prediction accuracies obtained by cross-validation within populations were moderate to high for all traits. Accuracies for individual families were in general lower and varied with population size and genetic architecture of the trait. In the among-family prediction scenario, highest accuracies were achieved by predicting from one half-sib family to another, while accuracies were lowest between unrelated families. Our results further demonstrate that the prediction accuracy can be considerably increased by a fixed effect model approach when major QTL are present. Taken together, the implementation of genomic selection for Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch resistance seems to be promising, but the composition of the training population is of utmost importance.
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- Cathérine Pauline Herter
- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 21, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- KWS LOCHOW GmbH, Ferdinand-von-Lochow-Straße 5, 29303, Bergen, Germany
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- KWS LOCHOW GmbH, Ferdinand-von-Lochow-Straße 5, 29303, Bergen, Germany
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- KWS LOCHOW GmbH, Ferdinand-von-Lochow-Straße 5, 29303, Bergen, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 21, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 21, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Liu X, Wang H, Hu X, Li K, Liu Z, Wu Y, Huang C. Improving Genomic Selection With Quantitative Trait Loci and Nonadditive Effects Revealed by Empirical Evidence in Maize. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1129. [PMID: 31620155 PMCID: PMC6759780 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Genomic selection (GS), a tool developed for molecular breeding, is used by plant breeders to improve breeding efficacy by shortening the breeding cycle and to facilitate the selection of candidate lines for creating hybrids without phenotyping in various environments. Association and linkage mapping have been widely used to explore and detect candidate genes in order to understand the genetic mechanisms of quantitative traits. In the current study, phenotypic and genotypic data from three experimental populations, including data on six agronomic traits (e.g., plant height, ear height, ear length, ear diameter, grain yield per plant, and hundred-kernel weight), were used to evaluate the effect of trait-relevant markers (TRMs) on prediction accuracy estimation. Integrating information from mapping into a statistical model can efficiently improve prediction performance compared with using stochastically selected markers to perform GS. The prediction accuracy can reach plateau when a total of 500-1,000 TRMs are utilized in GS. The prediction accuracy can be significantly enhanced by including nonadditive effects and TRMs in the GS model when genotypic data with high proportions of heterozygous alleles and complex agronomic traits with high proportion of nonadditive variancein phenotypic variance are used to perform GS. In addition, taking information on population structure into account can slightly improve prediction performance when the genetic relationship between the training and testing sets is influenced by population stratification due to different allele frequencies. In conclusion, GS is a useful approach for prescreening candidate lines, and the empirical evidence provided by the current study for TRMs and nonadditive effects can inform plant breeding and in turn contribute to the improvement of selection efficiency in practical GS-assisted breeding programs.
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Fujimoto R, Uezono K, Ishikura S, Osabe K, Peacock WJ, Dennis ES. Recent research on the mechanism of heterosis is important for crop and vegetable breeding systems. BREEDING SCIENCE 2018; 68:145-158. [PMID: 29875598 PMCID: PMC5982191 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.17155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2017] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Heterosis or hybrid vigor is a phenomenon where hybrid progeny have superior performance compared to their parental inbred lines. This is important in the use of F1 hybrid cultivars in many crops and vegetables. However, the molecular mechanism of heterosis is not clearly understood. Gene interactions between the two genomes such as dominance, overdominance, and epistasis have been suggested to explain the increased biomass and yield. Genetic analyses of F1 hybrids in maize, rice, and canola have defined a large number of quantitative trait loci, which may contribute to heterosis. Recent molecular analyses of transcriptomes together with reference to the epigenome of the parents and hybrids have begun to uncover new facts about the generation of heterosis. These include the identification of gene expression changes in hybrids, which may be important for heterosis, the role of epigenetic processes in heterosis, and the development of stable high yielding lines.
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- Ryo Fujimoto
- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University,
Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501,
Japan
- Corresponding author (e-mail: )
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University,
Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501,
Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University,
Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501,
Japan
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- Plant Epigenetics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University,
Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495,
Japan
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food,
Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia
- University of Technology, Sydney,
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007,
Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food,
Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia
- University of Technology, Sydney,
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007,
Australia
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Schulthess AW, Zhao Y, Longin CFH, Reif JC. Advantages and limitations of multiple-trait genomic prediction for Fusarium head blight severity in hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018; 131:685-701. [PMID: 29198016 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-3029-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 11/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Predictabilities for wheat hybrids less related to the estimation set were improved by shifting from single- to multiple-trait genomic prediction of Fusarium head blight severity. Breeding for improved Fusarium head blight resistance (FHBr) of wheat is a very laborious and expensive task. FHBr complexity is mainly due to its highly polygenic nature and because FHB severity (FHBs) is greatly influenced by the environment. Associated traits plant height and heading date may provide additional information related to FHBr, but this is ignored in single-trait genomic prediction (STGP). The aim of our study was to explore the benefits in predictabilities of multiple-trait genomic prediction (MTGP) over STGP of target trait FHBs in a population of 1604 wheat hybrids using information on 17,372 single nucleotide polymorphism markers along with indicator traits plant height and heading date. The additive inheritance of FHBs allowed accurate hybrid performance predictions using information on general combining abilities or average performance of both parents without the need of markers. Information on molecular markers and indicator trait(s) improved FHBs predictabilities for hybrids less related to the estimation set. Indicator traits must be observed on the predicted individuals to benefit from MTGP. Magnitudes of genetic and phenotypic correlations along with improvements in predictabilities made plant height a better indicator trait for FHBs than heading date. Thus, MTGP having only plant height as indicator trait already maximized FHBs predictabilities. Provided a good indicator trait was available, MTGP could reduce the impacts of genotype environment [Formula: see text] interaction on STGP for hybrids less related to the estimation set.
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- Albert W Schulthess
- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany.
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