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Ma C, Qian J, Feng Y, Sehgal SK, Zhao Y, Chen Q, Li H, Liu W. Genetic Mapping of a Novel Gene PmAege7M from Aegilops geniculata Conferring Resistance to Wheat Powdery Mildew. PLANT DISEASE 2023; 107:3608-3615. [PMID: 37272041 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-04-23-0764-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt), is one of the most damaging foliage diseases of wheat across the world. Aegilops geniculata Roth is a valuable gene resource for enhancing wheat resistance to powdery mildew. This study identified Ae. geniculata accession PI 487224 as immune and PI 487228 as susceptible to powdery mildew. Genetic analysis of the F1, F2, and F2:3 progeny derived from PI 487224 × PI 487228 showed that powdery mildew resistance in PI 487224 was controlled by two independent dominant genes located on two different nonhomologous chromosomes. By combing bulked segregant RNA-Seq, genetic linkage analysis of a single resistance gene segregation population, and marker analysis of a set of 14 wheat-Ae. geniculata chromosome addition lines, one of the resistance genes, temperately designated PmAege7M, was mapped to a 4.9-cM interval flanked by markers STS7-55926 and SNP7-45792/STS7-65911 on the long arm of chromosome 7 Mg of PI 487224, spanning 604.73 to 622.82 Mb on the 7D long arm based on the Ae. tauschii reference genome (Aet_v4.0). The map and closely linked markers of PmAege7M from Ae. geniculata in this study will facilitate the transfer of PmAege7M into common wheat and fine mapping of the gene.
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- Chao Ma
- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Bookings, SD 57007, U.S.A
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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Yazdani M, Rouse MN, Steffenson BJ, Bajgain P, Patpour M, Johansson E, Rahmatov M. Developing adapted wheat lines with broad-spectrum resistance to stem rust: Introgression of Sr59 through backcrossing and selections based on genotyping-by-sequencing data. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292724. [PMID: 37824577 PMCID: PMC10569509 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023] Open
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Control of stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici, a highly destructive fungal disease of wheat, faces continuous challenges from emergence of new virulent races across wheat-growing continents. Using combinations of broad-spectrum resistance genes could impart durable stem rust resistance. This study attempted transfer of Sr59 resistance gene from line TA5094 (developed through CSph1bM-induced T2DS·2RL Robertsonian translocation conferring broad-spectrum resistance). Poor agronomic performance of line TA5094 necessitates Sr59 transfer to adapted genetic backgrounds and utility evaluations for wheat improvement. Based on combined stem rust seedling and molecular analyses, 2070 BC1F1 and 1230 BC2F1 plants were derived from backcrossing BAJ#1, KACHU#1, and REEDLING#1 with TA5094. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) results revealed the physical positions of 15,116 SNPs on chromosome 2R. The adapted genotypes used for backcrossing were found not to possess broad-spectrum resistance to selected stem rust races, whereas Sr59-containing line TA5094 showed resistance to all races tested. Stem rust seedling assays combined with kompetitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) marker analysis successfully selected and generated the BC2F2 population, which contained the Sr59 gene, as confirmed by GBS. Early-generation data from backcrossing suggested deviations from the 3:1 segregation, suggesting that multiple genes may contribute to Sr59 resistance reactions. Using GBS marker data (40,584 SNPs in wheat chromosomes) to transfer the recurrent parent background to later-generation populations resulted in average genome recovery of 71.2% in BAJ#1*2/TA5094, 69.8% in KACHU#1*2/TA5094, and 70.5% in REEDLING#1*2/TA5094 populations. GBS data verified stable Sr59 introgression in BC2F2 populations, as evidenced by presence of the Ph1 locus and absence of the 50,936,209 bp deletion in CSph1bM. Combining phenotypic selections, stem rust seedling assays, KASP markers, and GBS data substantially accelerated transfer of broad-spectrum resistance into adapted genotypes. Thus, this study demonstrated that the Sr59 resistance gene can be introduced into elite genetic backgrounds to mitigate stem rust-related yield losses.
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- Mahboobeh Yazdani
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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Yadav IS, Rawat N, Chhuneja P, Kaur S, Uauy C, Lazo G, Gu YQ, Doležel J, Tiwari VK. Comparative genomic analysis of 5M g chromosome of Aegilops geniculata and 5U u chromosome of Aegilops umbellulata reveal genic diversity in the tertiary gene pool. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1144000. [PMID: 37521926 PMCID: PMC10373596 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1144000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops for the global food security. Due to its narrow genetic base, modern bread wheat cultivars face challenges from increasing abiotic and biotic stresses. Since genetic improvement is the most sustainable approach, finding novel genes and alleles is critical for enhancing the genetic diversity of wheat. The tertiary gene pool of wheat is considered a gold mine for genetic diversity as novel genes and alleles can be identified and transferred to wheat cultivars. Aegilops geniculata and Ae. umbellulata are the key members of the tertiary gene pool of wheat and harbor important genes against abiotic and biotic stresses. Homoeologous-group five chromosomes (5Uu and 5Mg) have been extensively studied from Ae. geniculata and Ae. umbellulata as they harbor several important genes including Lr57, Lr76, Yr40, Yr70, Sr53 and chromosomal pairing loci. In the present study, using chromosome DNA sequencing and RNAseq datasets, we performed comparative analysis to study homoeologous gene evolution in 5Mg, 5Uu, and group 5 wheat chromosomes. Our findings highlight the diversity of transcription factors and resistance genes, resulting from the differential expansion of the gene families. Both the chromosomes were found to be enriched with the "response to stimulus" category of genes providing resistance against biotic and abiotic stress. Phylogenetic study positioned the M genome closer to the D genome, with higher proximity to the A genome than the B genome. Over 4000 genes were impacted by SNPs on 5D, with 4-5% of those genes displaying non-disruptive variations that affect gene function.
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- Inderjit S. Yadav
- Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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- Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Albany, CA, United States
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- Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Albany, CA, United States
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- Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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Ashraf R, Johansson E, Vallenback P, Steffenson BJ, Bajgain P, Rahmatov M. Identification of a Small Translocation from 6R Possessing Stripe Rust Resistance to Wheat. PLANT DISEASE 2023; 107:720-729. [PMID: 35900348 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-07-22-1666-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn, is the most devastating fungal disease of bread wheat. Here, a wheat-rye multiple disomic substitution line, SLU126 4R (4D), 5R (5D), and 6R (7D), possessing resistance against 25 races of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici, was used and crossed with Chinese Spring ph1b to induce homeologous recombination to produce introgressions with a reduced rye chromosome segment. Seedling assays confirmed that the stripe rust resistance from SLU126 was retained over multiple generations. Through genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) platforms and aligning the putative GBS-single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) to the full-length annotated rye nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) genes in the parental lines (CS ph1b, SLU126, CSA, and SLU820), we identified the physical position of 26, 13, and 9 NLR genes on chromosomes 6R, 4R, and 5R, respectively. The physical positions of 25 NLR genes on chromosome 6R were identified from 568,460,437 bp to 879,958,268 bp in the 6RL chromosome segment. Based on these NLR positions on the 6RL chromosome segment, the three linked SNPs (868,123,650 to 873,285,112 bp) were validated through kompetitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) assays in SLU126 and resistance plants in the family 29-N3-5. Using these KASP markers, we identified a small piece of the rye translocation (i.e., as a possible 6DS.6DL.6RL.6DL) containing the stripe resistance gene, temporary designated YrSLU, within the 6RL segment. This new stripe rust resistance gene provides an additional asset for wheat improvement to mitigate yield losses caused by stripe rust.
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- Rimsha Ashraf
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, P.O. Box 190, SE-234 22 Lomma, Sweden
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, P.O. Box 190, SE-234 22 Lomma, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, P.O. Box 190, SE-234 22 Lomma, Sweden
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Wang Y, Fan J, Xiao Y, Feng X, Zhang H, Chen C, Ji W, Wang Y. Genetic analysis of resistance to powdery mildew on 7M g chromosome of wheat-Aegilops geniculata, development and utilization of specific molecular markers. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:564. [PMID: 36463134 PMCID: PMC9719254 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03934-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Powdery mildew caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) is prevalent in the main wheat-producing regions of China, resulting in severe yield losses in recent years. Mining and utilization of resistant genes from wild relatives of wheat is the most environmentally sound measure to control disease. Aegilops geniculata Roth (2n = 2x = 28, UgUgMgMg) is an essential and valuable disease-resistance gene donor for wheat improvement as a close relative species. RESULTS In this study, to validate powdery mildew resistance locus on chromosome 7Mg, two genetic populations were constructed and through crossing wheat - Ae. geniculata 7Mg disomic addition line NA0973-5-4-1-2-9-1 and 7Mg (7 A) alien disomic substitution line W16998 with susceptible Yuanfeng175 (YF175, authorized varieties from Shaanxi province in 2005), respectively. Cytological examination, in situ hybridization (ISH), and functional molecular markers analysis revealed that the plants carrying chromosome 7Mg showed high resistance to powdery mildew in both F1 and F2 generation at the seedling stage. Besides, 84 specific markers were developed to identify the plants carrying chromosome 7Mg resistance based on the specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) technique. Among them, four markers were selected randomly to check the reliability in F2 segregating populations derived from YF175/NA0973-5-4-1-2-9-1 and YF175/W16998. In summary, the above analysis confirmed that a dominant high powdery mildew resistance gene was located on chromosome 7Mg of Ae. geniculata. CONCLUSION The results provide a basis for mapping the powdery mildew resistance gene mapping on chromosome 7Mg and specific markers for their utilization in the future.
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- Yongfu Wang
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, 712100, Yangling, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, 712100, Yangling, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, 712100, Yangling, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, 712100, Yangling, China.
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, 712100, Yangling, China.
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, 712100, Yangling, China.
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, 712100, Yangling, China.
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Karelov A, Kozub N, Sozinova O, Pirko Y, Sozinov I, Yemets A, Blume Y. Wheat Genes Associated with Different Types of Resistance against Stem Rust ( Puccinia graminis Pers.). Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11101157. [PMID: 36297214 PMCID: PMC9608978 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11101157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Stem rust is one wheat's most dangerous fungal diseases. Yield losses caused by stem rust have been significant enough to cause famine in the past. Some races of stem rust are considered to be a threat to food security even nowadays. Resistance genes are considered to be the most rational environment-friendly and widely used way to control the spread of stem rust and prevent yield losses. More than 60 genes conferring resistance against stem rust have been discovered so far (so-called Sr genes). The majority of the Sr genes discovered have lost their effectiveness due to the emergence of new races of stem rust. There are some known resistance genes that have been used for over 50 years and are still effective against most known races of stem rust. The goal of this article is to outline the different types of resistance against stem rust as well as the effective and noneffective genes, conferring each type of resistance with a brief overview of their origin and usage.
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- Anatolii Karelov
- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Institute of Plant Protection, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Correspondence: (A.K.); (Y.B.)
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- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Institute of Plant Protection, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Institute of Plant Protection, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Plant Protection, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 04123 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Correspondence: (A.K.); (Y.B.)
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Zuo Y, Dai S, Song Z, Xiang Q, Li W, Liu G, Li J, Xu D, Yan Z. Identification and Characterization of Wheat- Aegilops comosa 7M (7A) Disomic Substitution Lines with Stripe Rust and Powdery Mildew Resistance. PLANT DISEASE 2022; 106:2663-2671. [PMID: 35253481 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-11-21-2485-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Aegilops comosa (MM, 2n = 2x = 14), an important diploid species from the wheat tertiary gene pool, contains many unique genes/traits of potential use for wheat breeding, such as disease resistance. In this study, three sister lines, NAL-32, NAL-33, and NAL-34, were identified from a wheat-A. comosa distant cross using fluorescence in situ hybridization, simple sequence repeat markers, and PCR-based unique gene markers combined with single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array analysis. Genetically, NAL-32 contained neither an alien nor translocation chromosome, whereas NAL-33 and NAL-34 had disomic 7M (7A) substitution chromosomes but differed in the absence or presence of the 1BL/1RS translocation chromosomes, respectively. The absence of 7A in NAL-33 and NAL-34 and the unusual 1B in the latter were verified by wheat 55K SNP arrays. The two 7M (7A) substitution lines had similar levels of resistance to stripe rust and powdery mildew, but better than that of NAL-32 and their common wheat parents, suggesting that the stripe rust and powdery mildew resistance of NAL-33 and NAL-34 were derived from the 7M of A. comosa. This research provides important bridge materials that can potentially be used for transferring stripe rust and powdery mildew resistance.
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- Yuanyuan Zuo
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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- Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8686, Japan
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, P.R. China
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Yang X, Xu M, Wang Y, Cheng X, Huang C, Zhang H, Li T, Wang C, Chen C, Wang Y, Ji W. Development and Molecular Cytogenetic Identification of Two Wheat-Aegilops geniculata Roth 7Mg Chromosome Substitution Lines with Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight, Powdery Mildew and Stripe Rust. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23137056. [PMID: 35806057 PMCID: PMC9266563 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23137056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Fusarium head blight (Fhb), powdery mildew, and stripe rust are major wheat diseases globally. Aegilops geniculata Roth (UgUgMgMg, 2n = 4x = 28), a wild relative of common wheat, is valuable germplasm of disease resistance for wheat improvement and breeding. Here, we report the development and characterization of two substitution accessions with high resistance to powdery mildew, stripe rust and Fhb (W623 and W637) derived from hybrid progenies between Ae. geniculata and hexaploid wheat Chinese Spring (CS). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), Genomic in situ hybridizations (GISH), and sequential FISH-GISH studies indicated that the two substitution lines possess 40 wheat chromosomes and 2 Ae. geniculata chromosomes. Furthermore, compared that the wheat addition line parent W166, the 2 alien chromosomes from W623 and W637 belong to the 7Mg chromosomes of Ae. geniculata via sequential FISH-GISH and molecular marker analysis. Nullisomic-tetrasomic analysis for homoeologous group-7 of wheat and FISH revealed that the common wheat chromosomes 7A and 7B were replaced in W623 and W637, respectively. Consequently, lines W623, in which wheat chromosomes 7A were replaced by a pair of Ae. geniculata 7Mg chromosomes, and W637, which chromosomes 7B were substituted by chromosomes 7Mg, with resistance to Fhb, powdery mildew, and stripe rust. This study has determined that the chromosome 7Mg from Ae. geniculata exists genes resistant to Fhb and powdery mildew.
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- Xiaoying Yang
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
- Correspondence: (Y.W.); (W.J.)
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (X.Y.); (M.X.); (Y.W.); (X.C.); (C.H.); (H.Z.); (T.L.); (C.W.); (C.C.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling 712100, China
- Shaanxi Research Station of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling 712100, China
- Correspondence: (Y.W.); (W.J.)
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Šimoníková D, Čížková J, Zoulová V, Christelová P, Hřibová E. Advances in the Molecular Cytogenetics of Bananas, Family Musaceae. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:plants11040482. [PMID: 35214815 PMCID: PMC8879896 DOI: 10.3390/plants11040482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The banana is a staple food crop and represents an important trade commodity for millions of people living in tropical and subtropical countries. The most important edible banana clones originated from natural crosses between diploid Musa balbisiana and various subspecies of M. acuminata. It is worth mentioning that evolution and speciation in the Musaceae family were accompanied by large-scale chromosome structural changes, indicating possible reasons for lower fertility or complete sterility of these vegetatively propagated clones. Chromosomal changes, often accompanied by changes in genome size, are one of the driving forces underlying speciation in plants. They can clarify the genomic constitution of edible bananas and shed light on their origin and on diversification processes in members of the Musaceae family. This article reviews the development of molecular cytogenetic approaches, ranging from classical fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using common cytogenetic markers to oligo painting FISH. We discuss differences in genome size and chromosome number across the Musaceae family in addition to the development of new chromosome-specific cytogenetic probes and their use in genome structure and comparative karyotype analysis. The impact of these methodological advances on our knowledge of Musa genome evolution at the chromosomal level is demonstrated. In addition to citing published results, we include our own new unpublished results and outline future applications of molecular cytogenetics in banana research.
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- Denisa Šimoníková
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (D.Š.); (J.Č.); (V.Z.); (P.C.)
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (D.Š.); (J.Č.); (V.Z.); (P.C.)
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (D.Š.); (J.Č.); (V.Z.); (P.C.)
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (D.Š.); (J.Č.); (V.Z.); (P.C.)
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (D.Š.); (J.Č.); (V.Z.); (P.C.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +420-585-238-713
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Prieto P, Palomino C, Cifuentes Z, Cabrera A. Analysis of Chromosome Associations during Early Meiosis in Wheat Lines Carrying Chromosome Introgressions from Agropyron cristatum. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:plants10112292. [PMID: 34834654 PMCID: PMC8625001 DOI: 10.3390/plants10112292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L. Gaertn., genome P), included in the Triticeae tribe (family Poaceae), is one of the most important grasses in temperate regions. It has been valued as a donor of important agronomic traits for wheat improvement, including tolerance to cold, drought, and high salinity, as well as resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust, and powdery mildew. For successful incorporation of beneficial alleles into wheat, it is essential that recombination between wheat and A. cristatum chromosomes occurs. In this work, we analysed chromosome associations during meiosis in wheat lines carrying chromosome introgressions from A. cristatum chromosomes 5P and 6P in the presence and absence of Ph1 locus using fluorescence in situ hybridisation. The results showed that the Ph1 locus does not affect chromosome associations between A. cristatum and wheat chromosomes because there were no interspecific chromosome associations; therefore, no recombination between chromosomes from wheat and Agropyron were observed in the absence of the Ph1 locus. The 5P and 6P A. cristatum chromosomes do not have a suppressor effect on the Ph1 locus. Wheat univalents in metaphase I suggest that Agropyron chromosomes might carry genes having a role in wheat homologous chromosome associations. Putative effect of the Agropyron genes on wheat chromosome associations does not interact with the Ph1 locus.
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- Pilar Prieto
- Plant Breeding Department, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Alameda del Obispo s/n, Apartado 4048, 14080 Córdoba, Spain;
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- Genetics Department, ETSIAM, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, CeiA3, 14071 Córdoba, Spain; (C.P.); (A.C.)
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- Plant Breeding Department, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Alameda del Obispo s/n, Apartado 4048, 14080 Córdoba, Spain;
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- Genetics Department, ETSIAM, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, CeiA3, 14071 Córdoba, Spain; (C.P.); (A.C.)
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Li H, Tian X, Pei S, Men W, Ma C, Sehgal SK, Zhao Y, Chen Q, Wang B, Dong Z, Xiang Z, Friebe B, Liu W. Development of Novel Wheat- Aegilops longissima 3S 1 Translocations Conferring Powdery Mildew Resistance and Specific Molecular Markers for Chromosome 3S 1. PLANT DISEASE 2021; 105:2938-2945. [PMID: 33787309 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-12-20-2691-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Powdery mildew of wheat, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici, is a destructive disease of common wheat. Cultivation of resistant varieties is the most cost-effective disease management strategy. Previous studies reported that chromosome 3Sl#2 present in Chinese Spring (CS)-Aegilops longissima 3Sl#2(3B) disomic substitution line TA3575 conferred resistance to powdery mildew. In this study, we further located the powdery mildew resistance gene(s) to the short arm of chromosome 3Sl#2 (3Sl#2S) by evaluating for B. graminis f. sp. tritici resistance of newly developed CS-Ae. longissima 3Sl#2 translocation lines. Meanwhile, TA7545, a previously designated CS-Ae. longissima 3Sl#3 disomic addition line, was reidentified as an isochromosome 3Sl#3S addition line and evaluated to confer resistance to powdery mildew, thus locating the resistance gene(s) to the short arm of chromosome 3Sl#3 (3Sl#3S). Based on transcriptome sequences of TA3575, 10 novel chromosome 3SlS-specific markers were developed, of which 5 could be used to distinguish between 3Sl#2S and 3Sl#3S derived from Ae. longissima accessions TL20 and TA1910 (TAM4) and the remaining 5 could identify both 3Sl#2S and 3Sl#3S. Also, CL897, one of five markers specific to both 3Sl#2S and 3Sl#3S, could be used to detect Pm13 located at chromosome 3Sl#1S from Ae. longissima accession TL01 in diverse wheat genetic backgrounds. The powdery mildew resistance genes on chromosomes 3Sl#2S and 3Sl#3S, the CS-Ae. longissima 3Sl#2 translocation lines, and the 3SlS-specific markers developed in this study will facilitate the transfer of B. graminis f. sp. tritici resistance genes into common wheat and provide new germplasm resources for powdery mildew resistance breeding.
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- Huanhuan Li
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007 U.S.A
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 U.S.A
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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Guo L, Yu L, Tong J, Zhao Y, Yang Y, Ma Y, Cui L, Hu Y, Wang Z, Gao X. Addition of Aegilops geniculata 1Ug chromosome improves the dough rheological properties by changing the composition and micro-structure of gluten. Food Chem 2021; 358:129850. [PMID: 33940291 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.129850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Aegilops geniculata, a relative of common wheat, has many useful traits for the improvements of wheat varieties. The wheat-Ae. geniculata disomic addition lines (DALs) carrying prior traits need to be characterized for wheat varieties improvement. We currently found that CS-1Ug (Chinese Spring-Ae. geniculata 1Ug DAL) possessed improved dough rheological properties than CS (Chinese Spring) did, and investigated the reasons of those rheological changes in dough. The results showed that CS-1Ug carries a novel high-molecular-weight glutenin subunit (HMW-GS), a substitute for Dx2 from CS, which led to the changes in the relative proportion of individual HMW-GS in total HMW-GSs. Changes in gluten composition improved the stability and elasticity of dough by promoting the accumulation of unextractable polymeric protein, and optimizing the micro-structure of the gluten. The current study provides basic information on CS-1Ug used as a potential resource for future wheat quality breeding.
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- Lei Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences/National Wheat Improvement Center, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
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Babu P, Baranwal DK, Harikrishna, Pal D, Bharti H, Joshi P, Thiyagarajan B, Gaikwad KB, Bhardwaj SC, Singh GP, Singh A. Application of Genomics Tools in Wheat Breeding to Attain Durable Rust Resistance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:567147. [PMID: 33013989 PMCID: PMC7516254 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.567147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2023]
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Wheat is an important source of dietary protein and calories for the majority of the world's population. It is one of the largest grown cereal in the world occupying over 215 M ha. Wheat production globally is challenged by biotic stresses such as pests and diseases. Of the 50 diseases of wheat that are of economic importance, the three rust diseases are the most ubiquitous causing significant yield losses in the majority of wheat production environments. Under severe epidemics they can lead to food insecurity threats amid the continuous evolution of new races of the pathogens, shifts in population dynamics and their virulence patterns, thereby rendering several effective resistance genes deployed in wheat breeding programs vulnerable. This emphasizes the need to identify, characterize, and deploy effective rust-resistant genes from diverse sources into pre-breeding lines and future wheat varieties. The use of genetic resistance has been marked as eco-friendly and to curb the further evolution of rust pathogens. Deployment of multiple rust resistance genes including major and minor genes in wheat lines could enhance the durability of resistance thereby reducing pathogen evolution. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and associated bioinformatics tools have revolutionized wheat genomics. The sequence alignment of the wheat genome is the most important landmark which will enable genomics to identify marker-trait associations, candidate genes and enhanced breeding values in genomic selection (GS) studies. High throughput genotyping platforms have demonstrated their role in the estimation of genetic diversity, construction of the high-density genetic maps, dissecting polygenic traits, and better understanding their interactions through GWAS (genome-wide association studies) and QTL mapping, and isolation of R genes. Application of breeder's friendly KASP assays in the wheat breeding program has expedited the identification and pyramiding of rust resistance alleles/genes in elite lines. The present review covers the evolutionary trends of the rust pathogen and contemporary wheat varieties, and how these research strategies galvanized to control the wheat killer genus Puccinia. It will also highlight the outcome and research impact of cost-effective NGS technologies and cloning of rust resistance genes amid the public availability of common and tetraploid wheat reference genomes.
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- Prashanth Babu
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi, India
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- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi, India
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- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi, India
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- Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research (ICAR), Anand, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- DCM SHRIRAM-Bioseed Research India, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India
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Rakszegi M, Molnár I, Darkó É, Tiwari VK, Shewry P. Editorial: Aegilops: Promising Genesources to Improve Agronomical and Quality Traits of Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1060. [PMID: 32760415 PMCID: PMC7371959 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Marianna Rakszegi
- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Plant Science and Ladscape Architecture, University of Maryland, Washington, MD, United States
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- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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Svačina R, Sourdille P, Kopecký D, Bartoš J. Chromosome Pairing in Polyploid Grasses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1056. [PMID: 32733528 PMCID: PMC7363976 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Polyploids are species in which three or more sets of chromosomes coexist. Polyploidy frequently occurs in plants and plays a major role in their evolution. Based on their origin, polyploid species can be divided into two groups: autopolyploids and allopolyploids. The autopolyploids arise by multiplication of the chromosome sets from a single species, whereas allopolyploids emerge from the hybridization between distinct species followed or preceded by whole genome duplication, leading to the combination of divergent genomes. Having a polyploid constitution offers some fitness advantages, which could become evolutionarily successful. Nevertheless, polyploid species must develop mechanism(s) that control proper segregation of genetic material during meiosis, and hence, genome stability. Otherwise, the coexistence of more than two copies of the same or similar chromosome sets may lead to multivalent formation during the first meiotic division and subsequent production of aneuploid gametes. In this review, we aim to discuss the pathways leading to the formation of polyploids, the occurrence of polyploidy in the grass family (Poaceae), and mechanisms controlling chromosome associations during meiosis, with special emphasis on wheat.
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- Radim Svačina
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- INRA, Génétique, Diversité, Ecophysiologie des Céréales, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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Ivanizs L, Monostori I, Farkas A, Megyeri M, Mikó P, Türkösi E, Gaál E, Lenykó-Thegze A, Szőke-Pázsi K, Szakács É, Darkó É, Kiss T, Kilian A, Molnár I. Unlocking the Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of a Wild Gene Source of Wheat, Aegilops biuncialis Vis., and Its Relationship With the Heading Time. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1531. [PMID: 31824545 PMCID: PMC6882925 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Understanding the genetic diversity of Aegilops biuncialis, a valuable source of agronomical useful genes, may significantly facilitate the introgression breeding of wheat. The genetic diversity and population structure of 86 Ae. biuncialis genotypes were investigated by 32700 DArT markers with the simultaneous application of three statistical methods- neighbor-joining clustering, Principal Coordinate Analysis, and the Bayesian approach to classification. The collection of Ae. biuncialis accessions was divided into five groups that correlated well with their eco-geographic habitat: A (North Africa), B (mainly from Balkans), C (Kosovo and Near East), D (Turkey, Crimea, and Peloponnese), and E (Azerbaijan and the Levant region). The diversity between the Ae. biuncialis accessions for a phenological trait (heading time), which is of decisive importance in the adaptation of plants to different eco-geographical environments, was studied over 3 years. A comparison of the intraspecific variation in the heading time trait by means of analysis of variance and principal component analysis revealed four phenotypic categories showing association with the genetic structure and geographic distribution, except for minor differences. The detailed exploration of genetic and phenologic divergence provides an insight into the adaptation capacity of Ae. biuncialis, identifying promising genotypes that could be utilized for wheat improvement.
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- László Ivanizs
- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- University of Canberra, Diversity Array Technologies, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Center of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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Šimoníková D, Němečková A, Karafiátová M, Uwimana B, Swennen R, Doležel J, Hřibová E. Chromosome Painting Facilitates Anchoring Reference Genome Sequence to Chromosomes In Situ and Integrated Karyotyping in Banana ( Musa Spp.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1503. [PMID: 31824534 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01503/full] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Oligo painting FISH was established to identify all chromosomes in banana (Musa spp.) and to anchor pseudomolecules of reference genome sequence of Musa acuminata spp. malaccensis "DH Pahang" to individual chromosomes in situ. A total of 19 chromosome/chromosome-arm specific oligo painting probes were developed and were shown to be suitable for molecular cytogenetic studies in genus Musa. For the first time, molecular karyotypes of diploid M. acuminata spp. malaccensis (A genome), M. balbisiana (B genome), and M. schizocarpa (S genome) from the Eumusa section of Musa, which contributed to the evolution of edible banana cultivars, were established. This was achieved after a combined use of oligo painting probes and a set of previously developed banana cytogenetic markers. The density of oligo painting probes was sufficient to study chromosomal rearrangements on mitotic as well as on meiotic pachytene chromosomes. This advance will enable comparative FISH mapping and identification of chromosomal translocations which accompanied genome evolution and speciation in the family Musaceae.
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- Denisa Šimoníková
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Banana Breeding, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda
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- Bioversity International, Banana Genetic Resources, Heverlee, Belgium
- Division of Crop Biotechnics, Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Banana Breeding, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Arusha, Tanzania
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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Li H, Dong Z, Ma C, Tian X, Qi Z, Wu N, Friebe B, Xiang Z, Xia Q, Liu W, Li T. Physical Mapping of Stem Rust Resistance Gene Sr52 from Dasypyrum villosum Based on ph1b-Induced Homoeologous Recombination. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20194887. [PMID: 31581639 PMCID: PMC6801782 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20194887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wheat stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) had been a devastating foliar disease worldwide during the 20th century. With the emergence of Ug99 races, which are virulent to most stem rust resistance genes deployed in wheat varieties and advanced lines, stem rust has once again become a disease threatening global wheat production. Sr52, derived from Dasypyrum villosum and mapped to the long arm of 6V#3, is one of the few effective genes against Ug99 races. In this study, the wheat-D. villosum Robertsonian translocation T6AS·6V#3L, the only stock carrying Sr52 released to experimental and breeding programs so far, was crossed with a CS ph1b mutant to induce recombinants with shortened 6V#3L chromosome segments locating Sr52. Six independent homozygous recombinants with different segment sizes and breakpoints were developed and characterized using in situ hybridization and molecular markers analyses. Stem rust resistance evaluation showed that only three terminal recombinants (1381, 1380, and 1392) containing 8%, 22%, and 30% of the distal segment of 6V#3L, respectively, were resistant to stem rust. Thus, the gene Sr52 was mapped into 6V#3L bin FL 0.92-1.00. In addition, three molecular markers in the Sr52-located interval of 6V#3L were confirmed to be diagnostic markers for selection of Sr52 introgressed into common wheat. The newly developed small segment translocation lines with Sr52 and the identified molecular markers closely linked to Sr52 will be valuable for wheat disease breeding.
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- Huanhuan Li
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5502, USA.
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- Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110000, China.
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Bulked segregant analysis RNA-seq (BSR-Seq) validated a stem resistance locus in Aegilops umbellulata, a wild relative of wheat. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215492. [PMID: 31539379 PMCID: PMC6754143 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Many disease resistance genes that have been transferred from wild relatives to cultivated wheat have played a significant role in wheat production worldwide. Ae. umbellulata is one of the species within the genus Aegilops that have been successfully used as sources of resistance genes to leaf rust, stem rust and powdery mildew. The objectives of the current work was to validate the map position of a major QTL that confers resistance to the stem rust pathogen races Ug99 (TTKSK) and TTTTF with an independent bi-parental mapping population and to refine the QTL region with a bulk segregant analysis approach. Two F2 bi-parental mapping populations were developed from stem rust resistant Ae. umbellulata accessions (PI 298905 and PI 5422375) and stem rust susceptible accessions (PI 542369 and PI 554395). Firstly, one of the two populations was used to map the chromosome location of the resistance gene. Later on, the 2nd population was used to validate the chromosome location in combination with a bulk segregant analysis approach. For the bulk segregant analysis, RNA was extracted from a bulk of leaf tissues of 12 homozygous resistant F3 families, and a separate bulk of 11 susceptible homozygous F3 families derived from the PI 5422375 and PI 554395 cross. The RNA samples of the two bulks and the two parents were sequenced for SNPs identification. Stem rust resistance QTL was validated on chromosome 2U of Ae. umbellulata in the same region in both populations. With bulk segregant analysis, the QTL position was delimited within 3.2 Mbp. Although there were a large number of genes in the orthologous region of the detected QTL on chromosome 2D of Ae. tauschii, we detected only two Ae. umbellulata NLR genes which can be considered as a potential candidate genes.
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Kishii M. An Update of Recent Use of Aegilops Species in Wheat Breeding. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:585. [PMID: 31143197 PMCID: PMC6521781 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Aegilops species have significantly contributed to wheat breeding despite the difficulties involved in the handling of wild species, such as crossability and incompatibility. A number of biotic resistance genes have been identified and incorporated into wheat varieties from Aegilops species, and this genus is also contributing toward improvement of complex traits such as yield and abiotic tolerance for drought and heat. The D genome diploid species of Aegilops tauschii has been utilized most often in wheat breeding programs. Other Aegilops species are more difficult to utilize in the breeding because of lower meiotic recombination frequencies; generally they can be utilized only after extensive and time-consuming procedures in the form of translocation/introgression lines. After the emergence of Ug99 stem rust and wheat blast threats, Aegilops species gathered more attention as a form of new resistance sources. This article aims to update recent progress on Aegilops species, as well as to cover new topics around their use in wheat breeding.
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- Masahiro Kishii
- Global Wheat Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico
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Yi Y, Zheng K, Ning S, Zhao L, Xu K, Hao M, Zhang L, Yuan Z, Liu D. The karyotype of Aegilops geniculata and its use to identify both addition and substitution lines of wheat. Mol Cytogenet 2019; 12:15. [PMID: 30984289 PMCID: PMC6446333 DOI: 10.1186/s13039-019-0428-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The annual allotetraploid species Aegilops geniculata harbors a number of traits relevant for wheat improvement. An effective cytogenetic method has yet to be developed to distinguish between each of its 14 chromosomes. RESULTS A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) approach was adopted to describe the karyotype of Ae. geniculata. Each of its 14 chromosomes was unequivocally recognized using a cocktail of three probes, namely pTa-713, (AAC)5 and pTa71. FISH karyotyping was then used to detect and characterize selections from an Ae. geniculata × bread wheat wide cross of a chromosome 1Mg disomic addition line and three 4Mg(4B) substitution lines. The identity of the addition line was confirmed by the presence of Glu-M1, detected both using an SDS-PAGE separation of endosperm proteins and by applying a PCR assay directed at the Glu-M1 locus. The status of the substitution lines was validated by genotyping using a wheat single nucleotide polymorphism chip. CONCLUSION FISH karyotyping based on pTa-713, (AAC)5 and pTa71 will be useful for determining the contribution of Ae. geniculata to derivatives of an Ae. geniculata × wheat wide cross. SNP chip-based genotyping is effective for confirming the status of whole chromosome wheat/alien substitution lines.
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- Yingjin Yi
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan China
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Kwiatek MT, Kurasiak-Popowska D, Mikołajczyk S, Niemann J, Tomkowiak A, Weigt D, Nawracała J. Cytological markers used for identification and transfer of Aegilops spp. chromatin carrying valuable genes into cultivated forms of Triticum. COMPARATIVE CYTOGENETICS 2019; 13:41-59. [PMID: 30854169 PMCID: PMC6403195 DOI: 10.3897/compcytogen.v13i1.30673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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There are many reports describing chromosome structure, organization and evolution within goatgrasses (Aegilops spp.). Chromosome banding and fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques are main methods used to identify Aegilops Linnaeus, 1753 chromosomes. These data have essential value considering the close genetic and genomic relationship of goatgrasses with wheat (Triticumaestivum Linnaeus, 1753) and triticale (× Triticosecale Wittmack, 1899). A key question is whether those protocols are useful and effective for tracking Aegilops chromosomes or chromosome segments in genetic background of cultivated cereals. This article is a review of scientific reports describing chromosome identification methods, which were applied for development of prebreeding plant material and for transfer of desirable traits into Triticum Linnaeus, 1753 cultivated species. Moreover, this paper is a resume of the most efficient cytomolecular markers, which can be used to follow the introgression of Aegilops chromatin during the breeding process.
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- Michał T. Kwiatek
- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd 11, 60-632, Poznań, PolandPoznań University of Life SciencesPoznańPoland
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Šimoníková D, Němečková A, Karafiátová M, Uwimana B, Swennen R, Doležel J, Hřibová E. Chromosome Painting Facilitates Anchoring Reference Genome Sequence to Chromosomes In Situ and Integrated Karyotyping in Banana ( Musa Spp.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1503. [PMID: 31824534 PMCID: PMC6879668 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Oligo painting FISH was established to identify all chromosomes in banana (Musa spp.) and to anchor pseudomolecules of reference genome sequence of Musa acuminata spp. malaccensis "DH Pahang" to individual chromosomes in situ. A total of 19 chromosome/chromosome-arm specific oligo painting probes were developed and were shown to be suitable for molecular cytogenetic studies in genus Musa. For the first time, molecular karyotypes of diploid M. acuminata spp. malaccensis (A genome), M. balbisiana (B genome), and M. schizocarpa (S genome) from the Eumusa section of Musa, which contributed to the evolution of edible banana cultivars, were established. This was achieved after a combined use of oligo painting probes and a set of previously developed banana cytogenetic markers. The density of oligo painting probes was sufficient to study chromosomal rearrangements on mitotic as well as on meiotic pachytene chromosomes. This advance will enable comparative FISH mapping and identification of chromosomal translocations which accompanied genome evolution and speciation in the family Musaceae.
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- Denisa Šimoníková
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Banana Breeding, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda
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- Bioversity International, Banana Genetic Resources, Heverlee, Belgium
- Division of Crop Biotechnics, Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Banana Breeding, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Arusha, Tanzania
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
- *Correspondence: Eva Hřibová,
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Randhawa MS, Singh RP, Dreisigacker S, Bhavani S, Huerta-Espino J, Rouse MN, Nirmala J, Sandoval-Sanchez M. Identification and Validation of a Common Stem Rust Resistance Locus in Two Bi-parental Populations. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1788. [PMID: 30555507 PMCID: PMC6283910 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Races belonging to Ug99 lineage of stem rust fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) continue to pose a threat to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in various African countries. Growing resistant varieties is the most economical and environmentally friendly control measure. Recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations from the crosses of susceptible parent 'Cacuke' with the resistant parents 'Huhwa' and 'Yaye' were phenotyped for resistance at the seedling stage to Pgt race TTKSK (Ug99) and in adult plants in field trials at Njoro, Kenya for two seasons in 2016. Using the Affymetrix Axiom breeders SNP array, two stem rust resistance genes, temporarily designated as SrH and SrY, were identified and mapped on chromosome arm 2BL through selective genotyping and bulked segregant analysis (BSA), respectively. Kompetitive allele specific polymorphism (KASP) markers and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to saturate chromosome arm 2BL in both RIL populations. SrH mapped between markers cim109 and cim114 at a distance of 0.9 cM proximal, and cim117 at 2.9 cM distal. SrY was flanked by markers cim109 and cim116 at 0.8 cM proximal, and IWB45932 at 1.9 cM distal. Two Ug99-effective stem rust resistance genes derived from bread wheat, Sr9h and Sr28, have been reported on chromosome arm 2BL. Infection types and map position in Huhwa and Yaye indicated that Sr28 was absent in both the parents. However, susceptible reactions produced by resistant lines from both populations against Sr9h-virulent race TTKSF+ confirmed the presence of a common resistance locus Sr9h in both lines. Test of allelism is required to establish genetic relationships between genes identified in present study and Sr9h. Marker cim117 linked to SrH was genotyped on set of wheat lines with Huhwa in the pedigree and is advised to be used for marker assisted selection for this gene, however, a combination of phenotypic and genotypic assays is desirable for both genes especially for selection of Sr9h in breeding programs.
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico
- Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, Mexico
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Olivera PD, Rouse MN, Jin Y. Identification of New Sources of Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust in Aegilops spp. in the Tertiary Genepool of Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1719. [PMID: 30524466 PMCID: PMC6262079 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Recent stem rust epidemics in eastern Africa and elsewhere demonstrated that wheat stem rust is a re-emerging disease posing a threat to wheat production worldwide. The cultivated wheat gene pool has a narrow genetic base for resistance to virulent races, such as races in the Ug99 race group. Wild relatives of wheat are a tractable source of stem rust resistance genes. Aegilops species in the tertiary genepool have not been exploited to any great extent as a source of stem rust resistance. We evaluated 1,422 accessions of Aegilops spp. for resistance to three highly virulent races (TTKSK, TRTTF, and TTTTF) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Species studied include Ae. biuncialis, Ae. caudata, Ae. comosa, Ae. cylindrica, Ae. geniculata, Ae. neglecta, Ae. peregrina, Ae. triuncialis, and Ae. umbellulata that do not share common genomes with cultivated wheat. High frequencies of resistance were observed as 977 (68.8%), 927 (65.2%), and 850 (59.8%) accessions exhibited low infection types to races TTKSK, TTTTF, and TRTTF, respectively. Contingency table analyses showed strong association for resistance to different races in several Aegilops spp., indicating that for a given species, the resistance genes effective against multiple races. Inheritance studies in selected accessions showed that resistance to race TTKSK is simply inherited.
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- Pablo D. Olivera
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN, United States
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Yu G, Champouret N, Steuernagel B, Olivera PD, Simmons J, Williams C, Johnson R, Moscou MJ, Hernández-Pinzón I, Green P, Sela H, Millet E, Jones JDG, Ward ER, Steffenson BJ, Wulff BBH. Discovery and characterization of two new stem rust resistance genes in Aegilops sharonensis. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2017; 130:1207-1222. [PMID: 28275817 PMCID: PMC5440502 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-2882-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE We identified two novel wheat stem rust resistance genes, Sr-1644-1Sh and Sr-1644-5Sh in Aegilops sharonensis that are effective against widely virulent African races of the wheat stem rust pathogen. Stem rust is one of the most important diseases of wheat in the world. When single stem rust resistance (Sr) genes are deployed in wheat, they are often rapidly overcome by the pathogen. To this end, we initiated a search for novel sources of resistance in diverse wheat relatives and identified the wild goatgrass species Aegilops sharonesis (Sharon goatgrass) as a rich reservoir of resistance to wheat stem rust. The objectives of this study were to discover and map novel Sr genes in Ae. sharonensis and to explore the possibility of identifying new Sr genes by genome-wide association study (GWAS). We developed two biparental populations between resistant and susceptible accessions of Ae. sharonensis and performed QTL and linkage analysis. In an F6 recombinant inbred line and an F2 population, two genes were identified that mapped to the short arm of chromosome 1Ssh, designated as Sr-1644-1Sh, and the long arm of chromosome 5Ssh, designated as Sr-1644-5Sh. The gene Sr-1644-1Sh confers a high level of resistance to race TTKSK (a member of the Ug99 race group), while the gene Sr-1644-5Sh conditions strong resistance to TRTTF, another widely virulent race found in Yemen. Additionally, GWAS was conducted on 125 diverse Ae. sharonensis accessions for stem rust resistance. The gene Sr-1644-1Sh was detected by GWAS, while Sr-1644-5Sh was not detected, indicating that the effectiveness of GWAS might be affected by marker density, population structure, low allele frequency and other factors.
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- Guotai Yu
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- 2Blades Foundation, 1630 Chicago Avenue, Suite 1901, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- J.R. Simplot Company, 5369 West Irving Street, Boise, ID, 83706, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- 2Blades Foundation, 1630 Chicago Avenue, Suite 1901, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
- AgBiome Inc, 104 T. W. Alexander Drive, Building 1, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
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Toor PI, Kaur S, Bansal M, Yadav B, Chhuneja P. Mapping of stripe rust resistance gene in an Aegilops caudate introgression line in wheat and its genetic association with leaf rust resistance. J Genet 2017; 95:933-938. [PMID: 27994192 DOI: 10.1007/s12041-016-0718-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A pair of stripe rust and leaf rust resistance genes was introgressed from Aegilops caudata, a nonprogenitor diploid species with the CC genome, to cultivated wheat. Inheritance and genetic mapping of stripe rust resistance gene in backcrossrecombinant inbred line (BC-RIL) population derived from the cross of a wheat-Ae. caudata introgression line (IL) T291- 2(pau16060) with wheat cv. PBW343 is reported here. Segregation of BC-RILs for stripe rust resistance depicted a single major gene conditioning adult plant resistance (APR) with stripe rust reaction varying from TR-20MS in resistant RILs signifying the presence of some minor genes as well. Genetic association with leaf rust resistance revealed that two genes are located at a recombination distance of 13%. IL T291-2 had earlier been reported to carry introgressions on wheat chromosomes 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D and 7D. Genetic mapping indicated the introgression of stripe rust resistance gene on wheat chromosome 5DS in the region carrying leaf rust resistance gene LrAc, but as an independent introgression. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) and sequence-tagged site (STS) markers designed from the survey sequence data of 5DS enriched the target region harbouring stripe and leaf rust resistance genes. Stripe rust resistance locus, temporarily designated as YrAc, mapped at the distal most end of 5DS linked with a group of four colocated SSRs and two resistance gene analogue (RGA)-STS markers at a distance of 5.3 cM. LrAc mapped at a distance of 9.0 cM from the YrAc and at 2.8 cM from RGA-STS marker Ta5DS_2737450, YrAc and LrAc appear to be the candidate genes for marker-assisted enrichment of the wheat gene pool for rust resistance.
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- Puneet Inder Toor
- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141 004, India.
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Aktar-Uz-Zaman M, Tuhina-Khatun M, Hanafi MM, Sahebi M. Genetic analysis of rust resistance genes in global wheat cultivars: an overview. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2017.1304180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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- Md Aktar-Uz-Zaman
- Laboratory of Climate-Smart Food Crop Production, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory of Climate-Smart Food Crop Production, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory of Plantation Science and Technology, Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Laboratory of Climate-Smart Food Crop Production, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Chemayek B, Bansal UK, Qureshi N, Zhang P, Wagoire WW, Bariana HS. Tight repulsion linkage between Sr36 and Sr39 was revealed by genetic, cytogenetic and molecular analyses. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2017; 130:587-595. [PMID: 27913833 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2837-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The shortening of Aegilops speltoides segment did not facilitate recombination between stem rust resistance genes Sr36 and Sr39 . Robustness of marker rwgs28 for marker-assisted selection of Sr39 was demonstrated. Stem rust resistance genes Sr39 and Sr36 were transferred from Aegilops speltoides and Triticum timopheevii, respectively, to chromosome 2B of wheat. Genetic stocks RL6082 and RWG1 carrying Sr39 on a large and a shortened Ae. speltoides segments, respectively, and the Sr36-carrying Australian wheat cultivar Cook were used in this study. This investigation was planned to determine the genetic relationship between these genes. Stem rust tests on F3 populations derived from RL6082/Cook and RWG1/Cook crosses showed tight repulsion linkage between Sr39 and Sr36. The genomic in situ hybridization analysis of heterozygous F3 family from the RWG1/Cook population showed that the translocated segments do not overlap. Meiotic analysis on the F1 plant from RWG1/Cook showed two univalents at the metaphase and anaphase stages in a majority of the cells indicating absence of pairing. Since meiotic pairing has been reported to initiate at the telomere, pairing and recombination may be inhibited due to very little wheat chromatin in the distal end of the chromosome arm 2BS in RWG1. The Sr39-carrying large Ae. speltoides segment transmitted preferentially in the RL6082/Cook F3 population, whereas the Sr36-carrying T. timopheevii segment over-transmitted in the RWG1/Cook cross. Genotyping with the co-dominant Sr39- and Sr36-linked markers rwgs28 and stm773-2, respectively, matched the phenotypic classification of F3 families. The RWG1 allele amplified by rwgs28 was diagnostic for the shortened Ae. speltoides segment and alternate alleles were amplified in 29 Australian cultivars. Marker rwgs28 will be useful in marker-assisted pyramiding of Sr39 with other genes.
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- Bosco Chemayek
- The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute-Cobbitty, PMB 4011, Narellan, NSW 2567, Australia
- National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), 1356, Mbale, Uganda
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- The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute-Cobbitty, PMB 4011, Narellan, NSW 2567, Australia
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- The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute-Cobbitty, PMB 4011, Narellan, NSW 2567, Australia
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- The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute-Cobbitty, PMB 4011, Narellan, NSW 2567, Australia
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- National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), 1356, Mbale, Uganda
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- The University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute-Cobbitty, PMB 4011, Narellan, NSW 2567, Australia.
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Edae EA, Olivera PD, Jin Y, Poland JA, Rouse MN. Genotype-by-sequencing facilitates genetic mapping of a stem rust resistance locus in Aegilops umbellulata, a wild relative of cultivated wheat. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:1039. [PMID: 27978816 PMCID: PMC5159964 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3370-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Wild relatives of wheat play a significant role in wheat improvement as a source of genetic diversity. Stem rust disease of wheat causes significant yield losses at the global level and stem rust pathogen race TTKSK (Ug99) is virulent to most previously deployed resistance genes. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify loci conferring resistance to stem rust pathogen races including Ug99 in an Aegilops umbelluata bi-parental mapping population using genotype-by-sequencing (GBS) SNP markers. RESULTS A bi-parental F2:3 population derived from a cross made between stem rust resistant accession PI 298905 and stem rust susceptible accession PI 542369 was used for this study. F2 individuals were evaluated with stem rust race TTTTF followed by testing F2:3 families with races TTTTF and TTKSK. The segregation pattern of resistance to both stem rust races suggested the presence of one resistance gene. A genetic linkage map, comprised 1,933 SNP markers, was created for all seven chromosomes of Ae. umbellulata using GBS. A major stem rust resistance QTL that explained 80% and 52% of the phenotypic variations for TTTTF and TTKSK, respectively, was detected on chromosome 2U of Ae. umbellulata. CONCLUSION The novel resistance gene for stem rust identified in this study can be transferred to commercial wheat varieties assisted by the tightly linked markers identified here. These markers identified through our mapping approach can be a useful strategy to identify and track the resistance gene in marker-assisted breeding in wheat.
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- Erena A Edae
- USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology and Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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Wiersma AT, Brown LK, Brisco EI, Liu TL, Childs KL, Poland JA, Sehgal SK, Olson EL. Fine mapping of the stem rust resistance gene SrTA10187. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:2369-2378. [PMID: 27581540 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2776-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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SrTA10187 was fine-mapped to a 1.1 cM interval, candidate genes were identified in the region of interest, and molecular markers were developed for marker-assisted selection and Sr gene pyramiding. Stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, Pgt) races belonging to the Ug99 (TTKSK) race group pose a serious threat to global wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production. To improve Pgt host resistance, the Ug99-effective resistance gene SrTA10187 previously identified in Aegilops tauschii Coss. was introgressed into wheat, and mapped to the short arm of wheat chromosome 6D. In this study, high-resolution mapping of SrTA10187 was done using a population of 1,060 plants. Pgt resistance was screened using race QFCSC. PCR-based SNP and STS markers were developed from genotyping-by-sequencing tags and SNP sequences available in online databases. SrTA10187 segregated as expected in a 3:1 ratio of resistant to susceptible individuals in three out of six BC3F2 families, and was fine-mapped to a 1.1 cM region on wheat chromosome 6DS. Marker context sequence was aligned to the reference Ae. tauschii genome to identify the physical region encompassing SrTA10187. Due to the size of the corresponding region, candidate disease resistance genes could not be identified with confidence. Comparisons with the Ae. tauschii genetic map developed by Luo et al. (PNAS 110(19):7940-7945, 2013) enabled identification of a discrete genetic locus and a BAC minimum tiling path of the region spanning SrTA10187. Annotation of pooled BAC library sequences led to the identification of candidate genes in the region of interest-including a single NB-ARC-LRR gene. The shorter genetic interval and flanking KASP™ and STS markers developed in this study will facilitate marker-assisted selection, gene pyramiding, and positional cloning of SrTA10187.
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- Andrew T Wiersma
- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, 1066 Bogue Street, Room A286, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, 1066 Bogue Street, Room A286, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, 1066 Bogue Street, Room A286, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, 612 Wilson Rd, Room 166, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and Center for Genomics-Enabled Plant Science, Michigan State University, 612 Wilson Rd, Room 166, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University, 4011 Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Plant Science-Box 2140C, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, 1066 Bogue Street, Room A286, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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Koo DH, Liu W, Friebe B, Gill BS. Homoeologous recombination in the presence of Ph1 gene in wheat. Chromosoma 2016; 126:531-540. [PMID: 27909815 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-016-0622-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A crossover (CO) and its cytological signature, the chiasma, are major features of eukaryotic meiosis. The formation of at least one CO/chiasma between homologous chromosome pairs is essential for accurate chromosome segregation at the first meiotic division and genetic recombination. Polyploid organisms with multiple sets of homoeologous chromosomes have evolved additional mechanisms for the regulation of CO/chiasma. In hexaploid wheat (2n = 6× = 42), this is accomplished by pairing homoeologous (Ph) genes, with Ph1 having the strongest effect on suppressing homoeologous recombination and homoeologous COs. In this study, we observed homoeologous COs between chromosome 5Mg of Aegilops geniculata and 5D of wheat in plants where Ph1 was fully active, indicating that chromosome 5Mg harbors a homoeologous recombination promoter factor(s). Further cytogenetic analysis, with different 5Mg/5D recombinants, showed that the homoeologous recombination promoting factor(s) may be located in proximal regions of 5Mg. In addition, we observed a higher frequency of homoeologous COs in the pericentromeric region between chromosome combination of rec5Mg#2S·5Mg#2L and 5D compared to 5Mg#1/5D, which may be caused by a small terminal region of 5DL homology present in chromosome rec5Mg#2. The genetic stocks reported here will be useful for analyzing the mechanism of Ph1 action and the nature of homoeologous COs.
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- Dal-Hoe Koo
- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA.,Laboratory of Cell and Chromosome Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA.
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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Koo DH, Tiwari VK, Hřibová E, Doležel J, Friebe B, Gill BS. Molecular Cytogenetic Mapping of Satellite DNA Sequences in Aegilops geniculata and Wheat. Cytogenet Genome Res 2016; 148:314-21. [PMID: 27403741 DOI: 10.1159/000447471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) provides an efficient system for cytogenetic analysis of wild relatives of wheat for individual chromosome identification, elucidation of homoeologous relationships, and for monitoring alien gene transfers into wheat. This study is aimed at developing cytogenetic markers for chromosome identification of wheat and Aegilops geniculata (2n = 4x = 28, UgUgMgMg) using satellite DNAs obtained from flow-sorted chromosome 5Mg. FISH was performed to localize the satellite DNAs on chromosomes of wheat and selected Aegilops species. The FISH signals for satellite DNAs on chromosome 5Mg were generally associated with constitutive heterochromatin regions corresponding to C-band-positive chromatin including telomeric, pericentromeric, centromeric, and interstitial regions of all the 14 chromosome pairs of Ae. geniculata. Most satellite DNAs also generated FISH signals on wheat chromosomes and provided diagnostic chromosome arm-specific cytogenetic markers that significantly improved chromosome identification in wheat. The newly identified satellite DNA CL36 produced localized Mg genome chromosome-specific FISH signals in Ae. geniculata and in the M genome of the putative diploid donor species Ae. comosa subsp. subventricosa but not in Ae. comosa subsp. comosa, suggesting that the Mg genome of Ae. geniculata was probably derived from subsp. subventricosa.
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- Dal-Hoe Koo
- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans., USA
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Rahmatov M, Rouse MN, Nirmala J, Danilova T, Friebe B, Steffenson BJ, Johansson E. A new 2DS·2RL Robertsonian translocation transfers stem rust resistance gene Sr59 into wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:1383-1392. [PMID: 27025509 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2710-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A new stem rust resistance gene Sr59 from Secale cereale was introgressed into wheat as a 2DS·2RL Robertsonian translocation. Emerging new races of the wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici), from Africa threaten global wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production. To broaden the resistance spectrum of wheat to these widely virulent African races, additional resistance genes must be identified from all possible gene pools. From the screening of a collection of wheat-rye (Secale cereale L.) chromosome substitution lines developed at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, we described the line 'SLU238' 2R (2D) as possessing resistance to many races of P. graminis f. sp. tritici, including the widely virulent race TTKSK (isolate synonym Ug99) from Africa. The breakage-fusion mechanism of univalent chromosomes was used to produce a new Robertsonian translocation: T2DS·2RL. Molecular marker analysis and stem rust seedling assays at multiple generations confirmed that the stem rust resistance from 'SLU238' is present on the rye chromosome arm 2RL. Line TA5094 (#101) was derived from 'SLU238' and was found to be homozygous for the T2DS·2RL translocation. The stem rust resistance gene on chromosome 2RL arm was designated as Sr59. Although introgressions of rye chromosome arms into wheat have most often been facilitated by irradiation, this study highlights the utility of the breakage-fusion mechanism for rye chromatin introgression. Sr59 provides an additional asset for wheat improvement to mitigate yield losses caused by stem rust.
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- Mahbubjon Rahmatov
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 101, 23053, Alnarp, Sweden.
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- Tajik Agrarian University, 146, Rudaki Ave., Dushanbe, 734017, Tajikistan.
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetic Resources Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetic Resources Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 101, 23053, Alnarp, Sweden
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Rahmatov M, Rouse MN, Steffenson BJ, Andersson SC, Wanyera R, Pretorius ZA, Houben A, Kumarse N, Bhavani S, Johansson E. Sources of Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat-Alien Introgression Lines. PLANT DISEASE 2016; 100:1101-1109. [PMID: 30682285 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-12-15-1448-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Stem rust is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat. Widely virulent races of the pathogen in the Ug99 lineage (e.g., TTKSK) are threatening wheat production worldwide; therefore, there is an urgent need to enhance the diversity of resistance genes in the crop. The objectives of this study were to identify new sources of resistance in wheat-alien introgression derivatives from Secale cereale, Leymus mollis, L. racemosus, and Thinopyrum junceiforme, postulate genes conferring the resistance, and verify the postulated genes by use of molecular markers. From seedling tests conducted in the greenhouse, the presence of seven known stem rust resistance genes (Sr7b, Sr8a, Sr9d, Sr10, Sr31, Sr36, and SrSatu) was postulated in the wheat-alien introgression lines. More lines possessed a high level of resistance in the field compared with the number of lines that were resistant at the seedling stage. Three 2R (2D) wheat-rye substitution lines (SLU210, SLU238, and SLU239) seemed likely to possess new genes for resistance to stem rust based on their resistance pattern to 13 different stem rust races but the genes responsible could not be identified. Wheat-rye, wheat-L. racemosus, and wheat-L. mollis substitutions or translocations with single and multiple interchanges of chromosomes, in particular of the B and D chromosomes of wheat, were verified by a combination of genomic in situ hybridization and molecular markers. Thus, the present study identified novel resistance genes originating from different alien introgressions into the wheat genome of the evaluated lines. Such genes may prove useful in enhancing the diversity of stem rust resistance in wheat against widely virulent pathogen races such as those in the Ug99 lineage.
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- Mahbubjon Rahmatov
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-23053 Alnarp, Sweden; Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; and Tajik Agrarian University, Dushanbe, 734017, Tajikistan
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108; and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
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- Kenyan Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization Food Crops Research Center, Njoro, Kenya
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, 06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Regional Cereal Rust Research Center, Aegean Agricultural Research Institute, Menemen, Izmir, Turkey
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, ICRAF House, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Bajgain P, Rouse MN, Tsilo TJ, Macharia GK, Bhavani S, Jin Y, Anderson JA. Nested Association Mapping of Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat Using Genotyping by Sequencing. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0155760. [PMID: 27186883 PMCID: PMC4870046 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We combined the recently developed genotyping by sequencing (GBS) method with joint mapping (also known as nested association mapping) to dissect and understand the genetic architecture controlling stem rust resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum). Ten stem rust resistant wheat varieties were crossed to the susceptible line LMPG-6 to generate F6 recombinant inbred lines. The recombinant inbred line populations were phenotyped in Kenya, South Africa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. By joint mapping of the 10 populations, we identified 59 minor and medium-effect QTL (explained phenotypic variance range of 1% - 20%) on 20 chromosomes that contributed towards adult plant resistance to North American Pgt races as well as the highly virulent Ug99 race group. Fifteen of the 59 QTL were detected in multiple environments. No epistatic relationship was detected among the QTL. While these numerous small- to medium-effect QTL are shared among the families, the founder parents were found to have different allelic effects for the QTL. Fourteen QTL identified by joint mapping were also detected in single-population mapping. As these QTL were mapped using SNP markers with known locations on the physical chromosomes, the genomic regions identified with QTL could be explored more in depth to discover candidate genes for stem rust resistance. The use of GBS-derived de novo SNPs in mapping resistance to stem rust shown in this study could be used as a model to conduct similar marker-trait association studies in other plant species.
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- Prabin Bajgain
- Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, 915 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States of America
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, United States of America
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States of America
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- Agricultural Research Council – Small Grain Institute, Bethlehem, 9700, Free State, South Africa
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- Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Njoro, Kenya
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), ICRAF House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States of America
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, United States of America
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Tiwari VK, Wang S, Danilova T, Koo DH, Vrána J, Kubaláková M, Hribova E, Rawat N, Kalia B, Singh N, Friebe B, Doležel J, Akhunov E, Poland J, Sabir JSM, Gill BS. Exploring the tertiary gene pool of bread wheat: sequence assembly and analysis of chromosome 5M(g) of Aegilops geniculata. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 84:733-46. [PMID: 26408103 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides a powerful tool for the discovery of important genes and alleles in crop plants and their wild relatives. Despite great advances in NGS technologies, whole-genome shotgun sequencing is cost-prohibitive for species with complex genomes. An attractive option is to reduce genome complexity to a single chromosome prior to sequencing. This work describes a strategy for studying the genomes of distant wild relatives of wheat by isolating single chromosomes from addition or substitution lines, followed by chromosome sorting using flow cytometry and sequencing of chromosomal DNA by NGS technology. We flow-sorted chromosome 5M(g) from a wheat/Aegilops geniculata disomic substitution line [DS5M(g) (5D)] and sequenced it using an Illumina HiSeq 2000 system at approximately 50 × coverage. Paired-end sequences were assembled and used for structural and functional annotation. A total of 4236 genes were annotated on 5M(g) , in close agreement with the predicted number of genes on wheat chromosome 5D (4286). Single-gene FISH indicated no major chromosomal rearrangements between chromosomes 5M(g) and 5D. Comparing chromosome 5M(g) with model grass genomes identified synteny blocks in Brachypodium distachyon, rice (Oryza sativa), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and barley (Hordeum vulgare). Chromosome 5M(g) -specific SNPs and cytogenetic probe-based resources were developed and validated. Deletion bin-mapped and ordered 5M(g) SNP markers will be useful to track 5M-specific introgressions and translocations. This study provides a detailed sequence-based analysis of the composition of a chromosome from a distant wild relative of bread wheat, and opens up opportunities to develop genomic resources for wild germplasm to facilitate crop improvement.
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- Vijay K Tiwari
- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, CZ 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, CZ 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, CZ 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, CZ 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Manhattan, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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Kielsmeier-Cook J, Danilova TV, Friebe B, Rouse MN. Resistance to the Ug99 Race Group of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Wheat-Intra/intergeneric Hybrid Derivatives. PLANT DISEASE 2015; 99:1317-1325. [PMID: 30690994 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-09-14-0922-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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New races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, the causal agent of stem rust, threaten global wheat production. In particular, races belonging to the Ug99 race group significantly contribute to yield loss in several African nations. Genetic resistance remains the most effective means of controlling this disease. A collection of 546 wheat-intra- and intergeneric hybrids developed by W. J. Sando (United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD) was screened with eight races of P. graminis f. sp. tritici, including races TTKSK, TTKST, TTTSK, TRTTF, TTTTF, TPMKC, RKQQC, and QTHJC. There were 152 accessions resistant to one or more races and 29 accessions resistant to TTKSK, TTKST, and TTTSK. Of these 29 accessions, 9 were resistant to all races, 14 had infection type patterns that were indistinguishable from cultivars possessing Sr9h and Sr42, 2 were indistinguishable from accessions with SrTmp, and 4 did not display resistant patterns of accessions with any known Sr gene. Three accessions (604981, 605286, and 611932) characterized cytogenetically were disomic substitution lines, each with a single Thinopyrum ponticum chromosome pair. One accession (606057) was a disomic substitution or addition line with two pairs of T. ponticum chromosomes. In total, seven accessions are postulated to contain novel stem rust resistance genes. This research indicates the value of extant collections of wheat-intergeneric hybrids as sources of disease resistance genes.
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
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Koo DH, Sehgal SK, Friebe B, Gill BS. Structure and Stability of Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0137747. [PMID: 26381743 PMCID: PMC4575054 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In most eukaryotes, centromeres assemble at a single location per chromosome. Naturally occurring telocentric chromosomes (telosomes) with a terminal centromere are rare but do exist. Telosomes arise through misdivision of centromeres in normal chromosomes, and their cytological stability depends on the structure of their kinetochores. The instability of telosomes may be attributed to the relative centromere size and the degree of completeness of their kinetochore. Here we test this hypothesis by analyzing the cytogenetic structure of wheat telosomes. We used a population of 80 telosomes arising from the misdivision of the 21 chromosomes of wheat that have shown stable inheritance over many generations. We analyzed centromere size by probing with the centromere-specific histone H3 variant, CENH3. Comparing the signal intensity for CENH3 between the intact chromosome and derived telosomes showed that the telosomes had approximately half the signal intensity compared to that of normal chromosomes. Immunofluorescence of CENH3 in a wheat stock with 28 telosomes revealed that none of the telosomes received a complete CENH3 domain. Some of the telosomes lacked centromere specific retrotransposons of wheat in the CENH3 domain, indicating that the stability of telosomes depends on the presence of CENH3 chromatin and not on the presence of CRW repeats. In addition to providing evidence for centromere shift, we also observed chromosomal aberrations including inversions and deletions in the short arm telosomes of double ditelosomic 1D and 6D stocks. The role of centromere-flanking, pericentromeric heterochromatin in mitosis is discussed with respect to genome/chromosome integrity.
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- Dal-Hoe Koo
- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506–5502, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506–5502, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506–5502, United States of America
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Yu G, Zhang Q, Friesen TL, Rouse MN, Jin Y, Zhong S, Rasmussen JB, Lagudah ES, Xu SS. Identification and mapping of Sr46 from Aegilops tauschii accession CIae 25 conferring resistance to race TTKSK (Ug99) of wheat stem rust pathogen. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2015; 128:431-43. [PMID: 25523501 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2442-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 12/06/2014] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Mapping studies confirm that resistance to Ug99 race of stem rust pathogen in Aegilops tauschii accession Clae 25 is conditioned by Sr46 and markers linked to the gene were developed for marker-assisted selection. The race TTKSK (Ug99) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, the causal pathogen for wheat stem rust, is considered as a major threat to global wheat production. To address this threat, researchers across the world have been devoted to identifying TTKSK-resistant genes. Here, we report the identification and mapping of a stem rust resistance gene in Aegilops tauschii accession CIae 25 that confers resistance to TTKSK and the development of molecular markers for the gene. An F2 population of 710 plants from an Ae. tauschii cross CIae 25 × AL8/78 were first evaluated against race TPMKC. A set of 14 resistant and 116 susceptible F2:3 families from the F2 plants were then evaluated for their reactions to TTKSK. Based on the tests, 179 homozygous susceptible F2 plants were selected as the mapping population to identify the simple sequence repeat (SSR) and sequence tagged site (STS) markers linked to the gene by bulk segregant analysis. A dominant stem rust resistance gene was identified and mapped with 16 SSR and five new STS markers to the deletion bin 2DS5-0.47-1.00 of chromosome arm 2DS in which Sr46 was located. Molecular marker and stem rust tests on CIae 25 and two Ae. tauschii accessions carrying Sr46 confirmed that the gene in CIae 25 is Sr46. This study also demonstrated that Sr46 is temperature-sensitive being less effective at low temperatures. The marker validation indicated that two closely linked markers Xgwm210 and Xwmc111 can be used for marker-assisted selection of Sr46 in wheat breeding programs.
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- Guotai Yu
- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108, USA
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Scott JC, Manisterski J, Sela H, Ben-Yehuda P, Steffenson BJ. Resistance of Aegilops Species from Israel to Widely Virulent African and Israeli Races of the Wheat Stem Rust Pathogen. PLANT DISEASE 2014; 98:1309-1320. [PMID: 30703930 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-01-14-0062-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Widely virulent races of the stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) such as those isolated from Africa (e.g., TTKSK, isolate synonym Ug99) threaten wheat production worldwide. To identify Aegilops accessions with effective resistance to such virulent stem rust races, up to 10 different species from Israel were evaluated against African races TTKSK, TTKST, and TTTSK and the Israeli race TTTTC as seedlings in the greenhouse. A wide diversity of stem rust reactions was observed across the Aegilops spp. and ranged from highly resistant (i.e., infection type 0) to highly susceptible (infection type 4). The frequency of resistance within a species to races TTTTC and TTKSK ranged from 7 and 14%, respectively, in Aegilops searsii to 98 and 100% in AE. speltoides. In all, 346 accessions were found resistant to the three African races and 138 accessions were resistant (or heterogeneous with a resistant component) to all four races. The species with broadly resistant accessions included Ae. longissima (59 accessions), Ae. peregrina (47 accessions), Ae. sharonensis (15 accessions), Ae. geniculata (9 accessions), Ae. kotschyi (5 accessions), and Ae. bicornis (3 accessions). Few geographical trends or correlations with climatic variables were observed with respect to stem rust resistance in the Aegilops spp. The exception was Ae. longissima infected with race TTTTC, where a high frequency of resistance was found in central and northern Israel and a very low frequency in southern Israel (Negev desert region). This geographical trend followed a pattern of annual precipitation in Israel, and a significant correlation was found between this variable and resistance in Ae. longissima. Although difficult, it is feasible to transfer resistance genes from Aegilops spp. into wheat through conventional wide-crossing schemes or, alternatively, a cloning and transformation approach. The broadly resistant accessions identified in this study will be valuable in these research programs.
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- Jeness C Scott
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Rouse MN, Nirmala J, Jin Y, Chao S, Fetch TG, Pretorius ZA, Hiebert CW. Characterization of Sr9h, a wheat stem rust resistance allele effective to Ug99. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:1681-8. [PMID: 24913360 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2330-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Wheat stem rust resistance gene SrWeb is an allele at the Sr9 locus that confers resistance to Ug99. Race TTKSK (Ug99) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, the causal fungus of stem rust, threatens global wheat production because of its broad virulence to current wheat cultivars. A recently identified Ug99 resistance gene from cultivar Webster, temporarily designated as SrWeb, mapped near the stem rust resistance gene locus Sr9. We determined that SrWeb is also present in Ug99 resistant cultivar Gabo 56 by comparative mapping and an allelism test. Analysis of resistance in a population segregating for both Sr9e and SrWeb demonstrated that SrWeb is an allele at the Sr9 locus, which subsequently was designated as Sr9h. Webster and Gabo 56 were susceptible to the Ug99-related race TTKSF+ from South Africa. Race TTKSF+ possesses unique virulence to uncharacterized Ug99 resistance in cultivar Matlabas. This result validated that resistance to Ug99 in Webster and Gabo 56 is conferred by the same gene: Sr9h. The emergence of pathogen virulence to several resistance genes that are effective to the original Ug99 race TTKSK, including Sr9h, suggests that resistance genes should be used in combinations in order to increase resistance durability.
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- Matthew N Rouse
- Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1551 Lindig Street, St. Paul, MN, USA,
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Rouse MN, Talbert LE, Singh D, Sherman JD. Complementary epistasis involving Sr12 explains adult plant resistance to stem rust in Thatcher wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:1549-59. [PMID: 24838645 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2319-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Quantitative trait loci conferring adult plant resistance to Ug99 stem rust in Thatcher wheat display complementary gene action suggesting multiple quantitative trait loci are needed for effective resistance. Adult plant resistance (APR) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is desirable because this resistance can be Pgt race non-specific. Resistance derived from cultivar Thatcher can confer high levels of APR to the virulent Pgt race TTKSK (Ug99) when combined with stem rust resistance gene Sr57 (Lr34). To identify the loci conferring APR in Thatcher, we evaluated 160 RILs derived from Thatcher crossed to susceptible cultivar McNeal for field stem rust reaction in Kenya for two seasons and in St. Paul for one season. All RILs and parents were susceptible as seedlings to race TTKSK. However, adult plant stem rust severities in Kenya varied from 5 to 80 %. Composite interval mapping identified four quantitative trait loci (QTL). Three QTL were inherited from Thatcher and one, Sr57, was inherited from McNeal. The markers closest to the QTL peaks were used in an ANOVA to determine the additive and epistatic effects. A QTL on 3BS was detected in all three environments and explained 27-35 % of the variation. The peak of this QTL was at the same location as the Sr12 seedling resistance gene effective to race SCCSC. Epistatic interactions were significant between Sr12 and QTL on chromosome arms 1AL and 2BS. Though Sr12 cosegregated with the largest effect QTL, lines with Sr12 were not always resistant. The data suggest that Sr12 or a linked gene, though not effective to race TTKSK alone, confers APR when combined with other resistance loci.
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- Matthew N Rouse
- Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1551 Lindig Street, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA,
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Yu LX, Barbier H, Rouse MN, Singh S, Singh RP, Bhavani S, Huerta-Espino J, Sorrells ME. A consensus map for Ug99 stem rust resistance loci in wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:1561-81. [PMID: 24903979 PMCID: PMC4072096 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2326-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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This consensus map of stem rust genes, QTLs, and molecular markers will facilitate the identification of new resistance genes and provide a resource of in formation for development of new markers for breeding wheat varieties resistant to Ug99. The global effort to identify new sources of resistance to wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race group Ug99 has resulted in numerous studies reporting both qualitative genes and quantitative trait loci. The purpose of our study was to assemble all available information on loci associated with stem rust resistance from 21 recent studies on Triticum aestivum L. (bread wheat) and Triticum turgidum subsp. durum desf. (durum wheat). The software LPmerge was used to construct a stem rust resistance loci consensus wheat map with 1,433 markers incorporating Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Diversity Arrays Technology, Genotyping-by-Sequencing as well as Simple Sequence Repeat marker information. Most of the markers associated with stem rust resistance have been identified in more than one population. Several loci identified in these populations map to the same regions with known Sr genes including Sr2, SrND643, Sr25 and Sr57 (Lr34/Yr18/Pm38), while other significant markers were located in chromosome regions where no Sr genes have been previously reported. This consensus map provides a comprehensive source of information on 141 stem rust resistance loci conferring resistance to stem rust Ug99 as well as linked markers for use in marker-assisted selection.
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- Long-Xi Yu
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- Present Address: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Unit, 24106 N. Bunn Road, Prosser, WA 99350–9687 USA
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN 55108 USA
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Texcoco, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Texcoco, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Texcoco, Mexico
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- Campo Experimental Valle de México INIFAP, Apdo. Postal 10, 56230 Chapingo, Edo de México Mexico
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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Tiwari VK, Wang S, Sehgal S, Vrána J, Friebe B, Kubaláková M, Chhuneja P, Doležel J, Akhunov E, Kalia B, Sabir J, Gill BS. SNP Discovery for mapping alien introgressions in wheat. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:273. [PMID: 24716476 PMCID: PMC4051138 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 03/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Monitoring alien introgressions in crop plants is difficult due to the lack of genetic and molecular mapping information on the wild crop relatives. The tertiary gene pool of wheat is a very important source of genetic variability for wheat improvement against biotic and abiotic stresses. By exploring the 5Mg short arm (5MgS) of Aegilops geniculata, we can apply chromosome genomics for the discovery of SNP markers and their use for monitoring alien introgressions in wheat (Triticum aestivum L). Results The short arm of chromosome 5Mg of Ae. geniculata Roth (syn. Ae. ovata L.; 2n = 4x = 28, UgUgMgMg) was flow-sorted from a wheat line in which it is maintained as a telocentric chromosome. DNA of the sorted arm was amplified and sequenced using an Illumina Hiseq 2000 with ~45x coverage. The sequence data was used for SNP discovery against wheat homoeologous group-5 assemblies. A total of 2,178 unique, 5MgS-specific SNPs were discovered. Randomly selected samples of 59 5MgS-specific SNPs were tested (44 by KASPar assay and 15 by Sanger sequencing) and 84% were validated. Of the selected SNPs, 97% mapped to a chromosome 5Mg addition to wheat (the source of t5MgS), and 94% to 5Mg introgressed from a different accession of Ae. geniculata substituting for chromosome 5D of wheat. The validated SNPs also identified chromosome segments of 5MgS origin in a set of T5D-5Mg translocation lines; eight SNPs (25%) mapped to TA5601 [T5DL · 5DS-5MgS(0.75)] and three (8%) to TA5602 [T5DL · 5DS-5MgS (0.95)]. SNPs (gsnp_5ms83 and gsnp_5ms94), tagging chromosome T5DL · 5DS-5MgS(0.95) with the smallest introgression carrying resistance to leaf rust (Lr57) and stripe rust (Yr40), were validated in two released germplasm lines with Lr57 and Yr40 genes. Conclusion This approach should be widely applicable for the identification of species/genome-specific SNPs. The development of a large number of SNP markers will facilitate the precise introgression and monitoring of alien segments in crop breeding programs and further enable mapping and cloning novel genes from the wild relatives of crop plants.
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
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Niu Z, Klindworth DL, Yu G, L Friesen T, Chao S, Jin Y, Cai X, Ohm JB, Rasmussen JB, Xu SS. Development and characterization of wheat lines carrying stem rust resistance gene Sr43 derived from Thinopyrum ponticum. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2014; 127:969-80. [PMID: 24504553 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2272-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Wheat lines carrying Ug99-effective stem rust resistance gene Sr43 on shortened alien chromosome segments were produced using chromosome engineering, and molecular markers linked to Sr43 were identified for marker-assisted selection. Stem rust resistance gene Sr43, transferred into common wheat (Triticum aestivum) from Thinopyrum ponticum, is an effective gene against stem rust Ug99 races. However, this gene has not been used in wheat breeding because it is located on a large Th. ponticum 7el(2) chromosome segment, which also harbors genes for undesirable traits. The objective of this study was to eliminate excessive Th. ponticum chromatin surrounding Sr43 to make it usable in wheat breeding. The two original translocation lines KS10-2 and KS24-1 carrying Sr43 were first analyzed using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and florescent genomic in situ hybridization. Six SSR markers located on wheat chromosome arm 7DL were identified to be associated with the Th. ponticum chromatin in KS10-2 and KS24-1. The results confirmed that KS24-1 is a 7DS·7el(2)L Robertsonian translocation as previously reported. However, KS10-2, which was previously designated as a 7el(2)S·7el(2)L-7DL translocation, was identified as a 7DS-7el(2)S·7el(2)L translocation. To reduce the Th. ponticum chromatin carrying Sr43, a BC(2)F(1) population (Chinese Spring//Chinese Spring ph1bph1b*2/KS10-2) containing ph1b-induced homoeologous recombinants was developed, tested with stem rust, and genotyped with the six SSR markers identified above. Two new wheat lines (RWG33 and RWG34) carrying Sr43 on shortened alien chromosome segments (about 17.5 and 13.7 % of the translocation chromosomes, respectively) were obtained, and two molecular markers linked to Sr43 in these lines were identified. The new wheat lines with Sr43 and the closely linked markers provide new resources for improving resistance to Ug99 and other races of stem rust in wheat.
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- Z Niu
- Northern Crop Science Laboratory, Cereal Crops Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 1605 Albrecht Blvd. North, Fargo, ND, 58102-2765, USA
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Zhao R, Wang H, Xiao J, Bie T, Cheng S, Jia Q, Yuan C, Zhang R, Cao A, Chen P, Wang X. Induction of 4VS chromosome recombinants using the CS ph1b mutant and mapping of the wheat yellow mosaic virus resistance gene from Haynaldia villosa. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:2921-30. [PMID: 23989649 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2181-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV) or wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV) resistance gene, Wss1, from Haynaldia villosa, was previously mapped to the chromosome arm 4VS by the development of 4V (4D) substitution and T4DL·4VS translocation lines. For better utilization and more accurate mapping of the Wss1, in this research, the CS ph1b mutant was used to induce new translocations with shortened 4VS chromosome fragments. Thirty-five homozygous translocations with different alien fragment sizes and breakpoints of 4VS were identified by GISH and molecular marker analysis. By field test, it was found that all the identified terminal translocations characterized as having smaller 4VS chromosome segments in the chromosome 4DS were highly resistant to WYMV, while all the interstitial translocations with 4VS inserted into the 4DS were WYMV susceptible. Marker analysis using 32 4VS-specific markers showed that both the terminal and interstitial translocations had different alien fragment sizes. Five specific markers could be detected in the WYMV-resistant terminal translocation line NAU421 with the shortest introduced 4VS fragment, indicating they can be used for marker-assisted selection in wheat breeding. Based on the resistance evaluation, GISH and molecular marker analysis of the available translocations, the gene(s) conferring the WYMV resistance on 4VS could be further cytologically mapped to the distal region of 4VS, immersed in the bin of FL 0.78-1.00. The newly developed small fragment translocations with WYMV resistance and 4VS specific markers have laid solid groundwork for the utilization in wheat breeding for WYMV resistance as well as further cloning of Wss1.
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- Renhui Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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Olson EL, Rouse MN, Pumphrey MO, Bowden RL, Gill BS, Poland JA. Introgression of stem rust resistance genes SrTA10187 and SrTA10171 from Aegilops tauschii to wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:2477-84. [PMID: 23864229 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2148-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Aegilops tauschii, the diploid progenitor of the wheat D genome, is a readily accessible germplasm pool for wheat breeding as genes can be transferred to elite wheat cultivars through direct hybridization followed by backcrossing. Gene transfer and genetic mapping can be integrated by developing mapping populations during backcrossing. Using direct crossing, two genes for resistance to the African stem rust fungus race TTKSK (Ug99), were transferred from the Ae. tauschii accessions TA10187 and TA10171 to an elite hard winter wheat line, KS05HW14. BC2 mapping populations were created concurrently with developing advanced backcross lines carrying rust resistance. Bulked segregant analysis on the BC2 populations identified marker loci on 6DS and 7DS linked to stem rust resistance genes transferred from TA10187 and TA10171, respectively. Linkage maps were developed for both genes and closely linked markers reported in this study will be useful for selection and pyramiding with other Ug99-effective stem rust resistance genes. The Ae. tauschii-derived resistance genes were temporarily designated SrTA10187 and SrTA10171 and will serve as valuable resources for stem rust resistance breeding.
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- Eric L Olson
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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Liu W, Danilova TV, Rouse MN, Bowden RL, Friebe B, Gill BS, Pumphrey MO. Development and characterization of a compensating wheat-Thinopyrum intermedium Robertsonian translocation with Sr44 resistance to stem rust (Ug99). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:1167-77. [PMID: 23358862 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2044-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The emergence of the highly virulent Ug99 race complex of the stem rust fungus (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. and Henn.) threatens wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production worldwide. One of the effective genes against the Ug99 race complex is Sr44, which was derived from Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth and D.R. Dewey and mapped to the short arm of 7J (designated 7J#1S) present in the noncompensating T7DS-7J#1L∙7J#1S translocation. Noncompensating wheat-alien translocations are known to cause genomic duplications and deficiencies leading to poor agronomic performance, precluding their direct use in wheat improvement. The present study was initiated to produce compensating wheat-Th. intermedium Robertsonian translocations with Sr44 resistance. One compensating RobT was identified consisting of the wheat 7DL arm translocated to the Th. intermedium 7J#1S arm resulting in T7DL∙7J#1S. The T7DL∙7J#1S stock was designated as TA5657. The 7DL∙7J#1S stock carries Sr44 and has resistance to the Ug99 race complex. This compensating RobT with Sr44 resistance may be useful in wheat improvement. In addition, we identified an unnamed stem rust resistance gene located on the 7J#1L arm that confers resistance not only to Ug99, but also to race TRTTF, which is virulent to Sr44. However, the action of the second gene can be modified by the presence of suppressors in the recipient wheat cultivars.
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- Wenxuan Liu
- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5502, USA
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