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Prins A, Kosik O. Genetic Approaches to Increase Arabinoxylan and β-Glucan Content in Wheat. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:3216. [PMID: 37765380 PMCID: PMC10534680 DOI: 10.3390/plants12183216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Wheat is one of the three staple crops feeding the world. The demand for wheat is ever increasing as a relatively good source of protein, energy, nutrients, and dietary fiber (DF) when consumed as wholemeal. Arabinoxylan and β-glucan are the major hemicelluloses in the cell walls and dietary fiber in wheat grains. The amount and structure of DF varies between grain tissues. Reducing post-prandial glycemic response as well as intestinal transit time and contribution to increased fecal bulk are only a few benefits of DF consumption. Dietary fiber is fermented in the colon and stimulates growth of beneficial bacteria producing SCFA, considered responsible for a wide range of health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease and colon cancer. The recommended daily intake of 25-30 g is met by only few individuals. Cereals cover nearly 40% of fiber in the Western diet. Therefore, wheat is a good target for improving dietary fiber content, as it would increase the fiber intake and simultaneously impact the health of many people. This review reflects the current status of the research on genetics of the two major dietary fiber components, as well as breeding approaches used to improve their quantity and quality in wheat grain.
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- Anneke Prins
- Department of Sustainable Soils and Crops, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK;
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- Department of Plant Sciences for the Bioeconomy, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK
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Li M, Cai K, Zheng N, Zhang G, Ye L. Identification of the Key Transcription Factors Regulating the Expression of the Genes Associated with Barley Malt Quality during Malting. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2023; 71:8241-8251. [PMID: 37192323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c00988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Barley malt is produced through a malting process; it begins with steeping followed by germination and kilning, in which dramatic changes happen for a large number of physiological and biochemical traits in barley seeds. The objectives of this study were to comprehensively investigate the phenotypic changes during malting, and identify the key regulators that modulate the expression of genes associated with malt quality traits. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between gibberellic acid (GA) content and the activities of some hydrolytic enzymes, including α-amylases, β-amylases, and limit dextrinase (LD), and a significant negative correlation between GA and β-glucan content. Starch content had little change, but starch granules were pitted severely during malting. Weighted gene coexpression analysis (WGCNA) identified the genes associated with the greatest changes of the examined malt traits during malting. The correlation analysis and protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis detected several key transcriptional factor (TF) regulating genes associated with malt quality. These genes and TFs regulating malting traits are potentially useful in barley breeding for malt quality improvement.
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- Mengdi Li
- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, PR China
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, PR China
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- Zhongyuan Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhengzhou 450000, PR China
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, PR China
- Zhongyuan Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhengzhou 450000, PR China
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, PR China
- Zhongyuan Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhengzhou 450000, PR China
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Lauer JC, Cu S, Burton RA, Eglinton JK. Variation in barley (1 → 3, 1 → 4)-β-glucan endohydrolases reveals novel allozymes with increased thermostability. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2017; 130:1053-1063. [PMID: 28239779 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-2870-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Novel barley (1 → 3, 1 → 4)-β-glucan endohydrolases with increased thermostability. Rapid and reliable degradation of (1 → 3, 1 → 4)-β-glucan to produce low viscosity wort is an essential requirement for malting barley. The (1 → 3, 1 → 4)-β-glucan endohyrolases are responsible for the primary hydrolysis of cell wall β-glucan. The variation in β-glucanase genes HvGlb1 and HvGlb2 that encode EI and EII, respectively, were examined in elite and exotic germplasm. Six EI and 14 EII allozymes were identified, and significant variation was found in β-glucanase from Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum (wild barley), the progenitor of modern cultivated barley. Allozymes were examined using prediction methods; the change in Gibbs free energy of the identified amino acid substitutions to predict changes in enzyme stability and homology modelling to examine the structure of the novel allozymes using the existing solved EII structure. Two EI and four EII allozymes in wild barley accessions were predicted to have improved barley β-glucanase thermostability. One novel EII candidate was identified in existing backcross lines with contrasting HvGlb2 alleles from wild barley and cv Flagship. The contrasting alleles in selected near isogenic lines were examined in β-glucanase thermostability analyses. The EII from wild barley exhibited a significant increase in β-glucanase thermostability conferred by the novel HvGlb2 allele. Increased β-glucanase thermostability is heritable and candidates identified in wild barley could improve malting and brewing quality in new varieties.
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- Juanita C Lauer
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia.
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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Lauer JC, Yap K, Cu S, Burton RA, Eglinton JK. Novel Barley (1→3,1→4)-β-Glucan Endohydrolase Alleles Confer Increased Enzyme Thermostability. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2017; 65:421-428. [PMID: 27936680 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b04287] [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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Barley (1→3,1→4)-β-glucan endohydrolases (β-glucanases; EI and EII) are primarily responsible for hydrolyzing high molecular weight (1→3,1→4)-β-glucans (β-glucan) during germination. Incomplete endosperm modification during malting results in residual β-glucan that can contribute to increased wort viscosity and beer chill haze. Four newly identified forms of EI and EII and the reference enzymes EI-a and EII-a were expressed in Escherichia coli, and the recombinant proteins were characterized for enzyme kinetics and thermostability. EI and EII variants that exhibited higher residual β-glucanase activity than EI-a and EII-a after heat treatment also exhibited increased substrate affinity and decreased turnover rates. The novel EII-l form exhibited significantly increased thermostability compared with the reference EII-a when activity was measured at elevated temperature. EII-l exhibited a T50 value, which indicates the temperature at which 50% of β-glucanase activity remains, 1.3 °C higher than that of EII-a. The irreversible thermal inactivation difference between EII-a and EII-l after 5 min of heat treatment at 56 °C was 11.9%. The functional significance of the three amino acid differences between EII-a and EII-l was examined by making combinatorial mutations in EII-a using site-directed mutagenesis. The S20G and D284E amino acid substitutions were shown to be responsible for the increase in EII-1 thermostability.
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- Juanita C Lauer
- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide , Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide , Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide , Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide , Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide , Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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Molecular evidence of RNA polymerase II gene reveals the origin of worldwide cultivated barley. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36122. [PMID: 27786300 PMCID: PMC5081693 DOI: 10.1038/srep36122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The origin and domestication of cultivated barley have long been under debate. A population-based resequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the single copy of RPB2 gene was used to address barley domestication, to explore genetic differentiation of barley populations on the worldwide scale, and to understand gene-pool exchanges during the spread and subsequent development of barley cultivation. Our results revealed significant genetic differentiation among three geographically distinct wild barley populations. Differences in haplotype composition among populations from different geographical regions revealed that modern cultivated barley originated from two major wild barley populations: one from the Near East Fertile Crescent and the other from the Tibetan Plateau, supporting polyphyletic origin of cultivated barley. The results of haplotype frequencies supported multiple domestications coupled with widespread introgression events that generated genetic admixture between divergent barley gene pools. Our results not only provide important insight into the domestication and evolution of cultivated barley, but also enhance our understanding of introgression and distinct selection pressures in different environments on shaping the genetic diversity of worldwide barley populations, thus further facilitating the effective use of the wild barley germplasm.
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Cai S, Han Z, Huang Y, Hu H, Dai F, Zhang G. Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci for the Phenolic Acid Contents and Their Association with Agronomic Traits in Tibetan Wild Barley. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2016; 64:980-987. [PMID: 26757245 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b05441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Phenolic acids have been of considerable interest in human nutrition because of their strong antioxidative properties. However, even in a widely grown crop, such as barley, their genetic architecture is still unclear. In this study, genetic control of two main phenolic acids, ferulic acid (FA) and p-coumaric acid (p-CA), and their associations with agronomic traits were investigated among 134 Tibetan wild barley accessions. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified three DArT markers (bpb-2723, bpb-7199, and bpb-7273) associated with p-CA content and one marker (bpb-3653) associated with FA content in 2 consecutive years. The contents of the two phenolic acids were positively correlated with some agronomic traits, such as the first internode length, plant height, and some grain color parameters, and negatively correlated with the thousand-grain weight (TGW). This study provides DNA markers for barley breeding programs to improve the contents of phenolic acids.
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- Shengguan Cai
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China
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Cai S, Han Z, Huang Y, Chen ZH, Zhang G, Dai F. Genetic Diversity of Individual Phenolic Acids in Barley and Their Correlation with Barley Malt Quality. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2015; 63:7051-7. [PMID: 26173650 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b02960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Phenolic acids have been quite extensively studied in food science research because of their antioxidative effect. In this study, the genotypic difference and genetic control of phenolic acids, and their correlation with malt quality, were investigated in barley. Ferulic acid (FA) and p-coumaric acid (p-CA) were identified as two main phenolic acids, showing wide variations among 68 barley genotypes. The mean content of FA and p-CA were 2.15 μg g(-1) and 1.10 μg g(-1) in grains and 4.07 μg g(-1) and 1.44 μg g(-1) in malt, respectively. After malting, FA and p-CA were increased significantly in 55 and 37 genotypes and were reduced in 2 and 14 genotypes, respectively. Both malt FA and p-CA were positively correlated with soluble N content and Kolbach index and negatively correlated with malt extract and viscosity. The results indicated that the effect of malting on the change of an individual phenolic acid is genotype independent. Association mapping identified that 8 markers on Chromosomes 1H, 2H, 4H, and 7H are associated with grain p-CA and 4 markers on Chromosomes 3H and 7H are linked with grain FA. However, only a single marker on Chromosome 3H was found to be associated with malt FA. Moreover, a lack of overlapping markers between grain and malt indicated the genetic diversity of phenolic acids in barley grain and malt. Our results strengthen the understanding of phenolic acids in barley and their responses to the malting process.
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- Shengguan Cai
- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Huang Y, Cai S, Ye L, Hu H, Li C, Zhang G. The effects of GA and ABA treatments on metabolite profile of germinating barley. Food Chem 2015; 192:928-33. [PMID: 26304431 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.07.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2015] [Revised: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sugar degradation during grain germination is important for malt quality. In malting industry, gibberellin (GA) is frequently used for improvement of malting quality. In this study, the changes of metabolite profiles and starch-degrading enzymes during grain germination, and as affected by GA and abscisic acid (ABA) were investigated using two wild barley accessions XZ72 and XZ95. Totally fifty-two metabolites with known structures were detected and the change of metabolite during germination was time- and genotype dependent. Sugars and amino acids were the most dramatically changed compounds. Addition of GA enhanced the activities of starch-degrading enzymes, and increased most metabolites, especially sugars and amino acids, whereas ABA had the opposite effect. The effect varied with the barley accessions. The current study is the first attempt in investigating the effect of hormones on metabolite profiles in germinating barley grain, being helpful for identifying the factors affecting barley germination or malt quality.
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- Yuqing Huang
- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, WA 6983, Australia
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Wang Y, Ren X, Sun D, Sun G. Origin of worldwide cultivated barley revealed by NAM-1 gene and grain protein content. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:803. [PMID: 26483818 PMCID: PMC4588695 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The origin, evolution, and distribution of cultivated barley provides powerful insights into the historic origin and early spread of agrarian culture. Here, population-based genetic diversity and phylogenetic analyses were performed to determine the evolution and origin of barley and how domestication and subsequent introgression have affected the genetic diversity and changes in cultivated barley on a worldwide scale. A set of worldwide cultivated and wild barleys from Asia and Tibet of China were analyzed using the sequences for NAM-1 gene and gene-associated traits-grain protein content (GPC). Our results showed Tibetan wild barley distinctly diverged from Near Eastern barley, and confirmed that Tibet is one of the origin and domestication centers for cultivated barley, and in turn supported a polyphyletic origin of domesticated barley. Comparison of haplotype composition among geographic regions revealed gene flow between Eastern and Western barley populations, suggesting that the Silk Road might have played a crucial role in the spread of genes. The GPC in the 118 cultivated and 93 wild barley accessions ranged from 6.73 to 12.35% with a mean of 9.43%. Overall, wild barley had higher averaged GPC (10.44%) than cultivated barley. Two unique haplotypes (Hap2 and Hap7) caused by a base mutations (at position 544) in the coding region of the NAM-1 gene might have a significant impact on the GPC. Single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypes of NAM-1 associated with GPC in barley could provide a useful method for screening GPC in barley germplasm. The Tibetan wild accessions with lower GPC could be useful for malt barley breeding.
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- Yonggang Wang
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Dongfa Sun, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China, ; Genlou Sun, Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada,
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
- Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, HalifaxNS, Canada
- *Correspondence: Dongfa Sun, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China, ; Genlou Sun, Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada,
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Zhang M, Mao W, Zhang G, Wu F. Development and characterization of polymorphic EST-SSR and genomic SSR markers for Tibetan annual wild barley. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94881. [PMID: 24736399 PMCID: PMC3988095 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Tibetan annual wild barley is rich in genetic variation. This study was aimed at the exploitation of new SSRs for the genetic diversity and phylogenetic analysis of wild barley by data mining. We developed 49 novel EST-SSRs and confirmed 20 genomic SSRs for 80 Tibetan annual wild barley and 16 cultivated barley accessions. A total of 213 alleles were generated from 69 loci with an average of 3.14 alleles per locus. The trimeric repeats were the most abundant motifs (40.82%) among the EST-SSRs, while the majority of the genomic SSRs were di-nuleotide repeats. The polymorphic information content (PIC) ranged from 0.08 to 0.75 with a mean of 0.46. Besides this, the expected heterozygosity (He) ranged from 0.0854 to 0.7842 with an average of 0.5279. Overall, the polymorphism of genomic SSRs was higher than that of EST-SSRs. Furthermore, the number of alleles and the PIC of wild barley were both higher than that of cultivated barley, being 3.12 vs 2.59 and 0.44 vs 0.37. Indicating more polymorphism existed in the Tibetan wild barley than in cultivated barley. The 96 accessions were divided into eight subpopulations based on 69 SSR markers, and the cultivated genotypes can be clearly separated from wild barleys. A total of 47 SSR-containing EST unigenes showed significant similarities to the known genes. These EST-SSR markers have potential for application in germplasm appraisal, genetic diversity and population structure analysis, facilitating marker-assisted breeding and crop improvement in barley.
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- Mian Zhang
- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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- Center of Analysis and Measurement, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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Ren X, Nevo E, Sun D, Sun G. Tibet as a potential domestication center of cultivated barley of China. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62700. [PMID: 23658764 PMCID: PMC3643926 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The importance of wild barley from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the origin and domestication of cultivated barley has long been underestimated. Population-based phylogenetic analyses were performed to study the origin and genetic diversity of Chinese domesticated barley, and address the possibility that the Tibetan region in China was an independent center of barley domestication. Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) populations from Southwest Asia, Central Asia, and Tibet along with domesticated barley from China were analyzed using two nuclear genes. Our results showed that Tibetan wild barley distinctly diverged from Southwest Asian (Near East) wild barley, that Central Asian wild barley is related to Southwest Asian wild barley, and that Chinese domesticated barley shares the same haplotypes with Tibetan wild barley. Phylogenetic analysis showed a close relationship between Chinese domesticated barley and the Tibetan wild barley, suggesting that Tibetan wild barley was the ancestor of Chinese domesticated barley. Our results favor the polyphyletic origin for cultivated barley.
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- Xifeng Ren
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- * E-mail: (DS); (GS)
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- * E-mail: (DS); (GS)
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Cai S, Yu G, Chen X, Huang Y, Jiang X, Zhang G, Jin X. Grain protein content variation and its association analysis in barley. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 13:35. [PMID: 23452582 PMCID: PMC3608362 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/27/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Grain protein content (GPC) is an important quality determinant for barley used as malt, feed as well as food. It is controlled by a complex genetic system. GPC differs greatly among barley genotypes and is also variable across different environments. It is imperative to understand the genetic control of barley GPC and identify the genotypes with less variation under the different environments. RESULTS In this study, 59 cultivated and 99 Tibetan wild barley genotypes were used for a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a multi-platform candidate gene-based association analysis, in order to identify the molecular markers associated with GPC. Tibetan wild barley had higher GPC than cultivated barley. The significant correlation between GPC and diastatic power (DP), and malt extract confirmed the importance of GPC in determining malt quality. Diversity arrays technology (DArT) markers associated with barley GPC were detected by GWAS. In addition, GWAS revealed two HvNAM genes as the candidate genes controlling GPC. No association was detected between HvNAM1 polymorphism and GPC, while a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (798, P < 0.01), located within the second intron of HvNAM2, was associated with GPC. There was a significant correlation between haplotypes of HvNAM1, HvNAM2 and GPC in barley. CONCLUSIONS The GWAS and candidate gene based-association study may be effectively used to determine the genetic variation of GPC in barley. The DArT markers and the polymorphism of HvNAM genes identified in this study are useful in developing high quality barley cultivars in the future. HvNAM genes could play a role in controlling barley GPC.
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- Shengguan Cai
- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Life Science, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325025, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Jin X, Wei K, Zhang G. A genome-wide association analysis of quantitative trait loci for protein fraction content in Tibetan wild barley. Biotechnol Lett 2011; 34:159-65. [DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0736-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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