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Yin M, Tong X, Yang J, Cheng Y, Zhou P, Li G, Wang Y, Ying J. Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Yield Traits and Validation of a Novel Quantitative Trait Locus for Grain Width and Weight in Rice. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:770. [PMID: 38592774 PMCID: PMC10975080 DOI: 10.3390/plants13060770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Grain yield in rice is a complex trait and it is controlled by a number of quantitative trait loci (QTL). To dissect the genetic basis of rice yield, QTL analysis for nine yield traits was performed using an F2 population containing 190 plants, which was developed from a cross between Youyidao (YYD) and Sanfenhe (SFH), and each plant in the population evaluated with respect to nine yield traits. In this study, the correlations among the nine yield traits were analyzed. The grain yield per plant positively correlated with six yield traits, except for grain length and grain width, and showed the highest correlation coefficient of 0.98 with the number of filled grains per plant. A genetic map containing 133 DNA markers was constructed and it spanned 1831.7 cM throughout 12 chromosomes. A total of 36 QTLs for the yield traits were detected on nine chromosomes, except for the remaining chromosomes 5, 8, and 9. The phenotypic variation was explained by a single QTL that ranged from 6.19% to 36.01%. Furthermore, a major QTL for grain width and weight, qGW2-1, was confirmed to be newly identified and was narrowed down to a relatively smaller interval of about ~2.94-Mb. Collectively, we detected a total of 36 QTLs for yield traits and a major QTL, qGW2-1, was confirmed to control grain weight and width, which laid the foundation for further map-based cloning and molecular design breeding in rice.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China; (M.Y.); (J.Y.); (Y.C.); (P.Z.); (G.L.); (Y.W.)
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Daryani P, Amirbakhtiar N, Soorni J, Loni F, Darzi Ramandi H, Shobbar ZS. Uncovering the Genomic Regions Associated with Yield Maintenance in Rice Under Drought Stress Using an Integrated Meta-Analysis Approach. RICE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2024; 17:7. [PMID: 38227151 DOI: 10.1186/s12284-024-00684-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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The complex trait of yield is controlled by several quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Given the global water deficit issue, the development of rice varieties suitable for non-flooded cultivation holds significant importance in breeding programs. The powerful approach of Meta-QTL (MQTL) analysis can be used for the genetic dissection of complicated quantitative traits. In the current study, a comprehensive MQTL analysis was conducted to identify consistent QTL regions associated with drought tolerance and yield-related traits under water deficit conditions in rice. In total, 1087 QTLs from 134 rice populations, published between 2000 to 2021, were utilized in the analysis. Distinct MQTL analysis of the relevant traits resulted in the identification of 213 stable MQTLs. The confidence interval (CI) for the detected MQTLs was between 0.12 and 19.7 cM. The average CI of the identified MQTLs (4.68 cM) was 2.74 times narrower compared to the average CI of the initial QTLs. Interestingly, 63 MQTLs coincided with SNP peak positions detected by genome-wide association studies for yield and drought tolerance-associated traits under water deficit conditions in rice. Considering the genes located both in the QTL-overview peaks and the SNP peak positions, 19 novel candidate genes were introduced, which are associated with drought response index, plant height, panicle number, biomass, and grain yield. Moreover, an inclusive MQTL analysis was performed on all the traits to obtain "Breeding MQTLs". This analysis resulted in the identification of 96 MQTLs with a CI ranging from 0.01 to 9.0 cM. The mean CI of the obtained MQTLs (2.33 cM) was 4.66 times less than the mean CI of the original QTLs. Thirteen MQTLs fulfilling the criteria of having more than 10 initial QTLs, CI < 1 cM, and an average phenotypic variance explained greater than 10%, were designated as "Breeding MQTLs". These findings hold promise for assisting breeders in enhancing rice yield under drought stress conditions.
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- Parisa Daryani
- Department of Systems Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- National Plant Gene Bank of Iran, Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Systems Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Systems Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.
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- Department of Systems Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran.
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Li S, Cao Y, Wang C, Yan C, Sun X, Zhang L, Wang W, Song S. Genome-wide association mapping for yield-related traits in soybean (Glycine max) under well-watered and drought-stressed conditions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1265574. [PMID: 37877078 PMCID: PMC10593458 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1265574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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Soybean (Glycine max) productivity is significantly reduced by drought stress. Breeders are aiming to improve soybean grain yields both under well-watered (WW) and drought-stressed (DS) conditions, however, little is known about the genetic architecture of yield-related traits. Here, a panel of 188 soybean germplasm was used in a genome wide association study (GWAS) to identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers linked to yield-related traits including pod number per plant (PN), biomass per plant (BM) and seed weight per plant (SW). The SLAF-seq genotyping was conducted on the population and three phenotype traits were examined in WW and DS conditions in four environments. Based on best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) data and individual environmental analyses, 39 SNPs were significantly associated with three soybean traits under two conditions, which were tagged to 26 genomic regions by linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis. Of these, six QTLs qPN-WW19.1, qPN-DS8.8, qBM-WW1, qBM-DS17.4, qSW-WW4 and qSW-DS8 were identified controlling PN, BM and SW of soybean. There were larger proportions of favorable haplotypes for locus qPN-WW19.1 and qSW-WW4 rather than qBM-WW1, qBM-DS17.4, qPN-DS8.8 and qSW-DS8 in both landraces and improved cultivars. In addition, several putative candidate genes such as Glyma.19G211300, Glyma.17G057100 and Glyma.04G124800, encoding E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase BAH1, WRKY transcription factor 11 and protein zinc induced facilitator-like 1, respectively, were predicted. We propose that the further exploration of these locus will facilitate accelerating breeding for high-yield soybean cultivars.
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- Institute of Crop Research, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Institute of Crop Research, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, China
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Sankarapillai LV, Vijayaraghavareddy P, Nanaiah K, Arpitha GD, Chaitanya PM, Sathishraj R, Shindhe D, Vemanna RS, Yin X, Struik PC, Sreeman S. Phenotyping and metabolome analysis reveal the role of AdoMetDC and Di19 genes in determining acquired tolerance to drought in rice. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2023; 175:e13992. [PMID: 37882292 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Water-saving attempts for rice cultivation often reduce yields. Maintaining productivity under drought is possible when rice genotypes are bred with improved metabolism and spikelet fertility. Although attempts have been made to introgress water mining and water use efficiency traits, combining acquired tolerance traits (ATTs), that is, specific traits induced or upregulated to better tolerate severe stress, appears equally important. In our study, we screened 90 rice germplasm accessions that represented the molecular and phenotypic variations of 851 lines of the 3 K rice panel. Utilising phenomics, we identified markers linked to ATTs through association analysis of over 0.2 million SNPs derived from whole-genome sequences. Propensity to respond to 'induction' stress varied significantly among genotypes, reflecting differences in cellular protection against oxidative stress. Among the ATTs, the hydroxyl radical and proline contents exhibited the highest variability. Furthermore, these significant variations in ATTs were strongly correlated with spikelet fertility. The 43 significant markers associated with ATTs were further validated using a different subset of contrasting genotypes. Gene expression studies and metabolomic profiling of two well-known contrasting genotypes, APO (tolerant) and IR64 (sensitive), identified two ATT genes: AdoMetDC and Di19. Our study highlights the relevance of polyamine biosynthesis in modulating ATTs in rice. Genotypes with superior ATTs and the associated markers can be effectively employed in breeding rice varieties with sustained spikelet fertility and grain yield under drought.
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India
- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center and Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana, India
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India
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Liu H, Pan Y, Cui R, Hammond JP, White PJ, Zhang Y, Zou M, Ding G, Wang S, Cai H, Xu F, Shi L. Integrating genome-wide association studies with selective sweep reveals genetic loci associated with tolerance to low phosphate availability in Brassica napus. MOLECULAR BREEDING : NEW STRATEGIES IN PLANT IMPROVEMENT 2023; 43:53. [PMID: 37333997 PMCID: PMC10275852 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-023-01399-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023]
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Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.; B. napus) is an important oil crop worldwide. However, the genetic mechanisms of B. napus adaptations to low phosphate (P) stress are largely unknown. In this study, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified 68 SNPs significantly associated with seed yield (SY) under low P (LP) availability, and 7 SNPs significantly associated with phosphorus efficiency coefficient (PEC) in two trials. Among these SNPs, two, chrC07__39807169 and chrC09__14194798, were co-detected in two trials, and BnaC07.ARF9 and BnaC09.PHT1;2 were identified as candidate genes of them, respectively, by combining GWAS with quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). There were significant differences in the gene expression level of BnaC07.ARF9 and BnaC09.PHT1;2 between P-efficient and -inefficiency varieties at LP. SY_LP had a significant positive correlation with the gene expression level of both BnaC07.ARF9 and BnaC09.PHT1;2. BnaC07.ARF9 and BnaA01.PHR1 could directly bind the promoters of BnaA01.PHR1 and BnaC09.PHT1;2, respectively. Selective sweep analysis was conducted between ancient and derived B. napus, and detected 1280 putative selective signals. Within the selected region, a large number of genes related to P uptake, transport, and utilization were detected, such as purple acid phosphatase (PAP) family genes and phosphate transporter (PHT) family genes. These findings provide novel insights into the molecular targets for breeding P efficiency varieties in B. napus. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-023-01399-9.
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- Haijiang Liu
- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR UK
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
- Key Lab of Cultivated Land Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Microelement Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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Ndikuryayo C, Ndayiragije A, Kilasi NL, Kusolwa P. Identification of Drought Tolerant Rice ( Oryza Sativa L.) Genotypes with Asian and African Backgrounds. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:922. [PMID: 36840269 PMCID: PMC9967662 DOI: 10.3390/plants12040922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Drought is among the major abiotic stresses on rice production that can cause yield losses of up to 100% under severe drought conditions. Neither of the rice varieties currently grown in Burundi can withstand very low and irregular precipitation. This study identified genotypes that have putative quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with drought tolerance and determined their performance in the field. Two hundred and fifteen genotypes were grown in the field under both drought and irrigated conditions. Genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was extracted from rice leaves for further genotypic screening. The results revealed the presence of the QTLs qDTY12.1, qDTY3.1, qDTY2-2_1, and qDTY1.1 in 90%, 85%, 53%, and 22% of the evaluated genotypes, respectively. The results of the phenotypic evaluation showed a significant yield reduction due to drought stress. Yield components and other agronomic traits were also negatively affected by drought. Genotypes having high yield best linear unbiased predictions (BLUPs) with two or more major QTLs for drought tolerance, including IR 108044-B-B-B-3-B-B, IR 92522-45-3-1-4, and BRRI DHAN 55 are of great interest for breeding programs to improve the drought tolerance of lines or varieties with other preferred traits.
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- Cyprien Ndikuryayo
- Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro P.O. Box 3001, Tanzania
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Bujumbura P.O. Box 5132, Burundi
- Burundi Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ISABU), Avenue de la Cathédrale, Bujumbura P.O. Box 795, Burundi
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- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Bujumbura P.O. Box 5132, Burundi
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- Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro P.O. Box 3001, Tanzania
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- Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro P.O. Box 3001, Tanzania
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El-Hashash EF, Abou El-Enin MM, Abd El-Mageed TA, Attia MAEH, El-Saadony MT, El-Tarabily KA, Shaaban A. Bread Wheat Productivity in Response to Humic Acid Supply and Supplementary Irrigation Mode in Three Northwestern Coastal Sites of Egypt. AGRONOMY 2022; 12:1499. [DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12071499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Drought stress is a major factor limiting wheat crop production worldwide. The application of humic acid (HA) and the selection of the appropriate genotype in the suitable site is one of the most important methods of tolerance of wheat plants to drought-stress conditions. The aim of this study was achieved using a three-way ANOVA, the stress tolerance index (STI), the Pearson correlation coefficient (rp), and principal component analysis (PCA). Three field experiments in three sites (Al-Qasr, El-Neguilla, and Abo Kwela) during the 2019/21 and 2020/21 seasons were conducted, entailing one Egyptian bread wheat variety (Sakha 94) with three HA rates (0, 30, and 60 kg ha−1) under normal and drought-stress conditions (supplemental irrigation). According to the ANOVA, the sites, supplemental irrigation, HA rates, and their first- and second-order interactions the grain yield and most traits evaluated (p ≤ 0.05 or 0.01) were significantly influenced in both seasons. Drought stress drastically reduced all traits registered in all factors studied compared with normal conditions. The wheat plants at the Al-Qasr site in both seasons showed significantly increased grain yield and most traits compared with that of the other sites under normal and drought-stress conditions. HA significantly promoted all studied traits under drought stress, and was highest when applying 60 kg HA ha−1, regardless of the site. The greatest grain yield and most traits monitored were observed in wheat plants fertilized with 60 kg HA ha−1 at the Al-Qasr site in both seasons under both conditions. Grain yield significantly (p ≤ 0.05 or 0.01) correlated with water and precipitation use efficiency as well as the most studied traits under normal and drought-stress conditions. The results of STI, rp, and PCA from the current study could be useful and could be used as a suitable method for studying drought-tolerance mechanisms to improve wheat productivity. Based on the results of statistical methods used in this study, we recommend the application of 60 kg HA ha−1 to improve wheat productivity under drought conditions along the north-western coast of Egypt.
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Melandri G, Monteverde E, Riewe D, AbdElgawad H, McCouch SR, Bouwmeester H. Can biochemical traits bridge the gap between genomics and plant performance? A study in rice under drought. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 189:1139-1152. [PMID: 35166848 PMCID: PMC9157150 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The possibility of introducing metabolic/biochemical phenotyping to complement genomics-based predictions in breeding pipelines has been considered for years. Here we examine to what extent and under what environmental conditions metabolic/biochemical traits can effectively contribute to understanding and predicting plant performance. In this study, multivariable statistical models based on flag leaf central metabolism and oxidative stress status were used to predict grain yield (GY) performance for 271 indica rice (Oryza sativa) accessions grown in the field under well-watered and reproductive stage drought conditions. The resulting models displayed significantly higher predictability than multivariable models based on genomic data for the prediction of GY under drought (Q2 = 0.54-0.56 versus 0.35) and for stress-induced GY loss (Q2 = 0.59-0.64 versus 0.03-0.06). Models based on the combined datasets showed predictabilities similar to metabolic/biochemical-based models alone. In contrast to genetic markers, models with enzyme activities and metabolite values also quantitatively integrated the effect of physiological differences such as plant height on GY. The models highlighted antioxidant enzymes of the ascorbate-glutathione cycle and a lipid oxidation stress marker as important predictors of rice GY stability under drought at the reproductive stage, and these stress-related variables were more predictive than leaf central metabolites. These findings provide evidence that metabolic/biochemical traits can integrate dynamic cellular and physiological responses to the environment and can help bridge the gap between the genome and the phenome of crops as predictors of GY performance under drought.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Laboratorio de Evolución y Domesticación de las Plantas, Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
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- School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Plant Hormone Biology group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Anwar K, Joshi R, Morales A, Das G, Yin X, Anten NPR, Raghuvanshi S, Bahuguna RN, Singh MP, Singh RK, Zanten M, Sasidharan R, Singla‐Pareek SL, Pareek A. Genetic diversity reveals synergistic interaction between yield components could improve the sink size and yield in rice. Food Energy Secur 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/fes3.334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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- Khalid Anwar
- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
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- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
- Division of Biotechnology CSIR‐Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology Palampur India
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis Plant Sciences Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen The Netherlands
- Molecular Plant Physiology Institute of Environmental Biology Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
- Plant Ecophysiology Institute of Environmental Biology Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis Plant Sciences Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis Plant Sciences Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology University of Delhi South Campus New Delhi India
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- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
- Center for Advance Studies on Climate Change Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa Samastipur India
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- Division of Plant Physiology Indian Agricultural Research Institute PUSA New Delhi India
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- Crop Diversification and Genetics International Center for Biosaline Agriculture Academic City Dubai United Arab Emirates
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- Molecular Plant Physiology Institute of Environmental Biology Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Plant Ecophysiology Institute of Environmental Biology Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Plant Stress Biology International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi India
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- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
- National Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute Mohali India
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A high-resolution genome-wide association study of the grain ionome and agronomic traits in rice Oryza sativa subsp. indica. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19230. [PMID: 34584121 PMCID: PMC8478900 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98573-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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This study presents a comprehensive study of the genetic bases controlling variation in the rice ionome employing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with a diverse panel of indica accessions, each genotyped with 5.2 million markers. GWAS was performed for twelve elements including B, Ca, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, P, and Zn and four agronomic traits including days to 50% flowering, grain yield, plant height and thousand grain weight. GWAS identified 128 loci associated with the grain elements and 57 associated with the agronomic traits. There were sixteen co-localization regions containing QTL for two or more traits. Fourteen grain element quantitative trait loci were stable across growing environments, which can be strong candidates to be used in marker-assisted selection to improve the concentrations of nutritive elements in rice grain. Potential candidate genes were revealed including OsNAS3 linked to the locus that controls the variation of Zn and Co concentrations. The effects of starch synthesis and grain filling on multiple grain elements were elucidated through the likely involvement of OsSUS1 and OsGSSB1 genes. Overall, our study provides crucial insights into the genetic basis of ionomic variations in rice and will facilitate improvement in breeding for trace mineral content.
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Melandri G, AbdElgawad H, Floková K, Jamar DC, Asard H, Beemster GTS, Ruyter-Spira C, Bouwmeester HJ. Drought tolerance in selected aerobic and upland rice varieties is driven by different metabolic and antioxidative responses. PLANTA 2021; 254:13. [PMID: 34173050 PMCID: PMC8233253 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-021-03659-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Sugar-mediated osmotic acclimation and a strong antioxidative response reduce drought-induced biomass loss at the vegetative stage in rice. A clear understanding of the physiological and biochemical adaptations to water limitation in upland and aerobic rice can help to identify the mechanisms underlying their tolerance to low water availability. In this study, three indica rice varieties-IR64 (lowland), Apo (aerobic), and UPL Ri-7 (upland)-, that are characterized by contrasting levels of drought tolerance, were exposed to drought at the vegetative stage. Drought-induced changes in biomass, leaf metabolites and oxidative stress markers/enzyme activities were analyzed in each variety at multiple time points. The two drought-tolerant varieties, Apo and UPL Ri-7 displayed a reduced water use in contrast to the susceptible variety IR64 that displayed high water consumption and consequent strong leaf dehydration upon drought treatment. A sugar-mediated osmotic acclimation in UPL Ri-7 and a strong antioxidative response in Apo were both effective in limiting the drought-induced biomass loss in these two varieties, while biomass loss was high in IR64, also after recovery. A qualitative comparison of these results with the ones of a similar experiment conducted in the field at the reproductive stage showed that only Apo, which also in this stage showed the highest antioxidant power, was able to maintain a stable grain yield under stress. Our results show that different metabolic and antioxidant adaptations confer drought tolerance to aerobic and upland rice varieties in the vegetative stage. The effectiveness of these adaptations differs between developmental stages. Unraveling the genetic control of these mechanisms might be exploited in breeding for new rice varieties adapted to water-limited environments.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Plant Hormone Biology Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR and Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Plant Hormone Biology Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Vijayaraghavareddy P, Akula NN, Vemanna RS, Math RGH, Shinde DD, Yin X, Struik PC, Makarla U, Sreeman S. Metabolome profiling reveals impact of water limitation on grain filling in contrasting rice genotypes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2021; 162:690-698. [PMID: 33780742 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Drought significantly decreases crop productivity, especially in high water consuming crops like rice. Grain filling is one of the important critical growth phases in rice and drought during this phase leads to significant reduction in yield. In this study, a comparison was made between IR64 (drought susceptible) and Apo (drought tolerant) rice genotypes to capture the response to water limitation (50% field capacity (FC)) compared with the control (100%FC) during grain filling. Plants were grown in a high-throughput phenomics facility for precise imposition of moisture stress during grain filling. Apo performed better in water limited conditions with lower reduction of photosynthetic rate and maintenance of lower leaf temperature than IR64. Days from sowing to maturity, spikelet fertility and seed weight were more impeded by water limitation in IR64 than in Apo. Unlike Apo, IR64 did not show any decrease in transpiration rate at 50%FC compared with 100%FC. Metabolomic profiling of spikelets at grain filling showed distinct effects of water limitation on accumulation of metabolites, especially in Apo. Secondary metabolism, mainly the phenylpropanoid pathway involved in scavenging mechanisms, was upregulated in Apo. Accumulation of most amino acids was significantly higher in IR64 than in Apo. Due to higher rates of photosynthesis under stress, most carbohydrates accumulated more in Apo than in IR64 at 50%FC. Sucrose transporters were significantly upregulated in water limited conditions especially in Apo. Overall, thanks to higher source capacity, more source to sink transport and better scavenging, Apo showed a lower reduction in yield than IR64.
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- Preethi Vijayaraghavareddy
- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India; Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India
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- Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana, India
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, United States
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
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Giri J, Parida SK, Raghuvanshi S, Tyagi AK. Emerging Molecular Strategies for Improving Rice Drought Tolerance. Curr Genomics 2021; 22:16-25. [PMID: 34045921 PMCID: PMC8142347 DOI: 10.2174/1389202921999201231205024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Rice occupies a pre-eminent position as a food crop in the world. Its production, how- ever, entails up to 3000 liters of water per kilogram of grain produced. Such high demand makes rice prone to drought easily. Sustainable rice cultivation with limited water resources requires the deployment of a suitable strategy for better water use efficiency and improved drought tolerance. Several drought-related genes have been evaluated in rice for their mode of action in conferring drought tolerance. Manipulation of components of abscisic acid signal transduction, stomatal density, deposition of cuticular wax, and protein modification pathways are emerging as priority targets. Gene reprogramming by microRNAs is also being explored to achieve drought tolerance. Genetically dissected Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) and their constituent genes are being deployed to develop drought-tolerant rice varieties. Progressive research and challenges include a better understanding of crucial components of drought response and search for new targets and the deployment of improved varieties in the field.
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- Jitender Giri
- 1National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India; 2Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 110021, India
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- 1National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India; 2Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 110021, India
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- 1National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India; 2Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 110021, India
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- 1National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India; 2Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 110021, India
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Genome-wide association study and Mendelian randomization analysis provide insights for improving rice yield potential. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6894. [PMID: 33767346 PMCID: PMC7994632 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86389-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Rice yield per plant has a complex genetic architecture, which is mainly determined by its three component traits: the number of grains per panicle (GPP), kilo-grain weight (KGW), and tillers per plant (TP). Exploring ideotype breeding based on selection for genetically less complex component traits is an alternative route for further improving rice production. To understand the genetic basis of the relationship between rice yield and component traits, we investigated the four traits of two rice hybrid populations (575 + 1495 F1) in different environments and conducted meta-analyses of genome-wide association study (meta-GWAS). In total, 3589 significant loci for three components traits were detected, while only 3 loci for yield were detected. It indicated that rice yield is mainly controlled by minor-effect loci and hardly to be identified. Selecting quantitative trait locus/gene affected component traits to further enhance yield is recommended. Mendelian randomization design is adopted to investigate the genetic effects of loci on yield through component traits and estimate the genetic relationship between rice yield and its component traits by these loci. The loci for GPP or TP mainly had a positive genetic effect on yield, but the loci for KGW with different direction effects (positive effect or negative effect). Additionally, TP (Beta = 1.865) has a greater effect on yield than KGW (Beta = 1.016) and GPP (Beta = 0.086). Five significant loci for component traits that had an indirect effect on yield were identified. Pyramiding superior alleles of the five loci revealed improved yield. A combination of direct and indirect effects may better contribute to the yield potential of rice. Our findings provided a rationale for using component traits as indirect indices to enhanced rice yield, which will be helpful for further understanding the genetic basis of yield and provide valuable information for improving rice yield potential.
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Genome-wide association study and gene network analyses reveal potential candidate genes for high night temperature tolerance in rice. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6747. [PMID: 33762605 PMCID: PMC7991035 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85921-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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High night temperatures (HNT) are shown to significantly reduce rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield and quality. A better understanding of the genetic architecture of HNT tolerance will help rice breeders to develop varieties adapted to future warmer climates. In this study, a diverse indica rice panel displayed a wide range of phenotypic variability in yield and quality traits under control night (24 °C) and higher night (29 °C) temperatures. Genome-wide association analysis revealed 38 genetic loci associated across treatments (18 for control and 20 for HNT). Nineteen loci were detected with the relative changes in the traits between control and HNT. Positive phenotypic correlations and co-located genetic loci with previously cloned grain size genes revealed common genetic regulation between control and HNT, particularly grain size. Network-based predictive models prioritized 20 causal genes at the genetic loci based on known gene/s expression under HNT in rice. Our study provides important insights for future candidate gene validation and molecular marker development to enhance HNT tolerance in rice. Integrated physiological, genomic, and gene network-informed approaches indicate that the candidate genes for stay-green trait may be relevant to minimizing HNT-induced yield and quality losses during grain filling in rice by optimizing source-sink relationships.
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Yoshida T, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. Metabolic engineering: Towards water deficiency adapted crop plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 258-259:153375. [PMID: 33609854 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2021.153375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Water deficiency caused by drought is one of the severe environmental conditions limiting plant growth, development, and yield. In this review article, we will summarize the changes in transcription, metabolism, and phytohormones under drought stress conditions and show the key transcription factors in these processes. We will also highlight the recent attempts to enhance stress tolerance without growth retardation and discuss the perspective on the development of stress adapted crops by engineering transcription factors.
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- Takuya Yoshida
- Max-Planck-Institut Für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 156-8502, Tokyo, Japan
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Li L, Peng Z, Mao X, Wang J, Li C, Chang X, Jing R. Genetic insights into natural variation underlying salt tolerance in wheat. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:1135-1150. [PMID: 33130904 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Developing salt-tolerant crop varieties is one of the important approaches to cope with increasing soil salinization worldwide. In this study, a diversity panel of 323 wheat accessions and 150 doubled haploid lines were phenotyped for salt-responsive morphological and physiological traits across two growth stages. The comprehensive salt tolerance of each wheat accession was evaluated based on principal component analysis. A total of 269 associated loci for salt-responsive traits and/or salt tolerance indices were identified by genome-wide association studies using 395 675 single nucleotide polymorphisms, among which 22 overlapping loci were simultaneously identified by biparental quantitative trait loci mapping. Two novel candidate genes ROOT NUMBER 1 (TaRN1) and ROOT NUMBER 2 (TaRN2) involved in root responses to salt stress fell within overlapping loci, showing different expression patterns and a frameshift mutation (in TaRN2) in contrasting salt-tolerant wheat genotypes. Moreover, the decline in salt tolerance of Chinese wheat varieties was observed from genetic and phenotypic data. We demonstrate that a haplotype controlling root responses to salt stress has been diminished by strong selection for grain yield, which highlights that linkage drag constrains the salt tolerance of Chinese wheat. This study will facilitate salt-tolerant wheat breeding in terms of elite germplasm, favorable alleles and selection strategies.
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- Long Li
- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Koua AP, Oyiga BC, Baig MM, Léon J, Ballvora A. Breeding Driven Enrichment of Genetic Variation for Key Yield Components and Grain Starch Content Under Drought Stress in Winter Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:684205. [PMID: 34484257 PMCID: PMC8415485 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.684205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Drought is one of the major abiotic stress factors limiting wheat production worldwide, thus threatening food security. The dissection of the genetic footprint of drought stress response offers strong opportunities toward understanding and improving drought tolerance (DT) in wheat. In this study, we investigated the genotypic variability for drought response among 200 diverse wheat cultivars (genotypes) using agronomic, developmental, and grain quality traits (GQT), and conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to uncover the genetic architectures of these important traits. Results indicated significant effects of genotype, water regime and their interactions for all agronomic traits. Grain yield (GY) was the most drought-responsive trait and was highly correlated with kernels number per meter square (KN). Genome-wide association studies revealed 17 and 20 QTL regions under rainfed and drought conditions, respectively, and identified one LD block on chromosome 3A and two others on 5D associated with breeding progress (BP). The major haplotypes of these LD blocks have been positively selected through breeding and are associated with higher starch accumulation and GY under drought conditions. Upon validation, the identified QTL regions caring favorable alleles for high starch and yield will shed light on mechanisms of tolerance to drought and can be used to develop drought resistant cultivars.
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- Ahossi Patrice Koua
- Department of Plant Breeding, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
- Field Lab Campus Klein-Altendorf, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany
- *Correspondence: Agim Ballvora
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Sahu PK, Mondal S, Sao R, Vishwakarma G, Kumar V, Das BK, Sharma D. Genome-wide association mapping revealed numerous novel genomic loci for grain nutritional and yield-related traits in rice ( Oryza sativa L.) landraces. 3 Biotech 2020; 10:487. [PMID: 33123454 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-02467-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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A core set of 190 rice landraces were used to decipher the genetic structure and to discover the chromosomal regions containing QTLs, affecting the grain micro-nutrients, fatty acids, and yield-related traits by using 148 molecular markers in this study. Landraces were categorized into three sub-groups based on population stratification study and followed by neighbor-joining tree and principal component analysis. Analysis of variance revealed abundant variations among the landraces for studied traits with less influence of environmental factors. Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) revealed 22 significant and consistent QTLs through marker trait association (MTAs) for 12 traits based on 2 years and pooled analysis. Out of 22 QTLs, three have been reported earlier while 19 QTLs are novel. Interestingly, 13 QTLs out of 22 were explained more than 10% phenotypic variance. Association of RM1148 and RM205 with Days to 50% flowering was comparable with flowering control genes Ghd8/qDTH8 and qDTH9, respectively. Similarly, Zn content was associated with RM44, which is situated within the QTL qZn8-1. Moreover, significant association of RM25 with oleic acid content was closely positioned with QTL qOle8. Association of RM7434 with grain yield/plant; RM184 with spikelet fertility %; R3M10, R9M42 with hundred seed weight; RM536, RM17467, RM484, RM26063 with Fe content; RM44, RM6839 with Zn content are the major outcomes of this study. In addition, association of R11M23 with days to 50% flowering, panicle length and total spikelets per panicle are explained the possible occurrence of pleiotropism among these traits. Prominent rice landraces viz., Anjani (early maturity); Sihar (extra dwarf); Gangabaru (highest grain yield/plant); Karhani (highest iron content); Byalo-2 (highest zinc content) and Kadamphool (highest oleic acid) were identified through this study. The present study will open many avenues towards utilization of these QTLs and superior landraces in rice breeding for developing nutrition-rich high yielding varieties.
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- Parmeshwar K Sahu
- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492012 India
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- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085 India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, 400094 India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492012 India
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- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085 India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, 400094 India
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- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085 India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, 400094 India
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- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085 India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, 400094 India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492012 India
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Rosero A, Granda L, Berdugo-Cely JA, Šamajová O, Šamaj J, Cerkal R. A Dual Strategy of Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Introducing Drought-Tolerant, Underutilized Crops into Production Systems to Enhance Their Resilience to Water Deficiency. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:E1263. [PMID: 32987964 PMCID: PMC7600178 DOI: 10.3390/plants9101263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 09/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Water scarcity is the primary constraint on crop productivity in arid and semiarid tropical areas suffering from climate alterations; in accordance, agricultural systems have to be optimized. Several concepts and strategies should be considered to improve crop yield and quality, particularly in vulnerable regions where such environmental changes cause a risk of food insecurity. In this work, we review two strategies aiming to increase drought stress tolerance: (i) the use of natural genes that have evolved over time and are preserved in crop wild relatives and landraces for drought tolerance breeding using conventional and molecular methods and (ii) exploiting the reservoir of neglected and underutilized species to identify those that are known to be more drought-tolerant than conventional staple crops while possessing other desired agronomic and nutritive characteristics, as well as introducing them into existing cropping systems to make them more resilient to water deficiency conditions. In the past, the existence of drought tolerance genes in crop wild relatives and landraces was either unknown or difficult to exploit using traditional breeding techniques to secure potential long-term solutions. Today, with the advances in genomics and phenomics, there are a number of new tools available that facilitate the discovery of drought resistance genes in crop wild relatives and landraces and their relatively easy transfer into advanced breeding lines, thus accelerating breeding progress and creating resilient varieties that can withstand prolonged drought periods. Among those tools are marker-assisted selection (MAS), genomic selection (GS), and targeted gene editing (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology). The integration of these two major strategies, the advances in conventional and molecular breeding for the drought tolerance of conventional staple crops, and the introduction of drought-tolerant neglected and underutilized species into existing production systems has the potential to enhance the resilience of agricultural production under conditions of water scarcity.
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- Amparo Rosero
- Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria–AGROSAVIA, Centro de Investigación Turipaná, Km 13 vía Montería, 250047 Cereté, Colombia;
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- Department of Crop Science, Breeding and Plant Medicine, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic; (L.G.); (R.C.)
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- Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria–AGROSAVIA, Centro de Investigación Turipaná, Km 13 vía Montería, 250047 Cereté, Colombia;
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (O.Š.); (J.Š.)
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic; (O.Š.); (J.Š.)
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- Department of Crop Science, Breeding and Plant Medicine, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic; (L.G.); (R.C.)
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Melandri G, Prashar A, McCouch SR, van der Linden G, Jones HG, Kadam N, Jagadish K, Bouwmeester H, Ruyter-Spira C. Association mapping and genetic dissection of drought-induced canopy temperature differences in rice. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:1614-1627. [PMID: 31846000 PMCID: PMC7031080 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Drought-stressed plants display reduced stomatal conductance, which results in increased leaf temperature by limiting transpiration. In this study, thermal imaging was used to quantify the differences in canopy temperature under drought in a rice diversity panel consisting of 293 indica accessions. The population was grown under paddy field conditions and drought stress was imposed for 2 weeks at flowering. The canopy temperature of the accessions during stress negatively correlated with grain yield (r= -0.48) and positively with plant height (r=0.56). Temperature values were used to perform a genome-wide association (GWA) analysis using a 45K single nucleotide polynmorphism (SNP) map. A quantitative trait locus (QTL) for canopy temperature under drought was detected on chromosome 3 and fine-mapped using a high-density imputed SNP map. The candidate genes underlying the QTL point towards differences in the regulation of guard cell solute intake for stomatal opening as the possible source of temperature variation. Genetic variation for the significant markers of the QTL was present only within the tall, low-yielding landraces adapted to drought-prone environments. The absence of variation in the shorter genotypes, which showed lower leaf temperature and higher grain yield, suggests that breeding for high grain yield in rice under paddy conditions has reduced genetic variation for stomatal response under drought.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Science Division, University of Dundee at The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, UK
- School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
- Department of Plant Biology and Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Plant Hormone Biology group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Melandri G, AbdElgawad H, Riewe D, Hageman JA, Asard H, Beemster GTS, Kadam N, Jagadish K, Altmann T, Ruyter-Spira C, Bouwmeester H. Biomarkers for grain yield stability in rice under drought stress. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:669-683. [PMID: 31087074 PMCID: PMC6946010 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Crop yield stability requires an attenuation of the reduction of yield losses caused by environmental stresses such as drought. Using a combination of metabolomics and high-throughput colorimetric assays, we analysed central metabolism and oxidative stress status in the flag leaf of 292 indica rice (Oryza sativa) accessions. Plants were grown in the field and were, at the reproductive stage, exposed to either well-watered or drought conditions to identify the metabolic processes associated with drought-induced grain yield loss. Photorespiration, protein degradation, and nitrogen recycling were the main processes involved in the drought-induced leaf metabolic reprogramming. Molecular markers of drought tolerance and sensitivity in terms of grain yield were identified using a multivariate model based on the values of the metabolites and enzyme activities across the population. The model highlights the central role of the ascorbate-glutathione cycle, particularly dehydroascorbate reductase, in minimizing drought-induced grain yield loss. In contrast, malondialdehyde was an accurate biomarker for grain yield loss, suggesting that drought-induced lipid peroxidation is the major constraint under these conditions. These findings highlight new breeding targets for improved rice grain yield stability under drought.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
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- Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, Berlin, Germany
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- Wageningen University and Research, Biometris, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Gahlaut V, Jaiswal V, Singh S, Balyan HS, Gupta PK. Multi-Locus Genome Wide Association Mapping for Yield and Its Contributing Traits in Hexaploid Wheat under Different Water Regimes. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19486. [PMID: 31862891 PMCID: PMC6925107 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55520-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Multi-locus genome wide association study was undertaken using a set of 320 diverse spring wheat accessions, which were each genotyped for 9,626 SNPs. The association panel was grown in replicated trials in four environments [two each in irrigated (IR) and rainfed (RF) environments], and phenotypic data were recorded for five traits including days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, thousand grain weight and grain yield. Forty-six significant marker-trait associations (MTAs) were identified for five traits. These included 20 MTAs in IR and 19 MTAs in RF environments; seven additional MTAs were common to both the environments. Five of these MTAs were co-localized with previously known QTL/MTAs and the remaining MTAs were novel and add to the existing knowledge. Three desirable haplotypes for agronomic traits, one for improvement in RF environment and two for improvement in IR environment were identified. Eighteen (18) promising candidate genes (CGs) involved in seven different biological activities were also identified. The expression profiles of four (Trehalose-6-Phosphate, APETALA2/Ethylene-responsive factor, DNA-binding One Zinc Finger and Gibberellin-dioxygenases) of the 18 genes showed that they were induced by drought stress in the wheat seedlings. The MTAs, haplotypes and CG-based markers may be used in marker-assisted breeding for drought tolerance in wheat.
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- Vijay Gahlaut
- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India
- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India.
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Li L, Mao X, Wang J, Chang X, Reynolds M, Jing R. Genetic dissection of drought and heat-responsive agronomic traits in wheat. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:2540-2553. [PMID: 31077401 PMCID: PMC6851630 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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High yield and wide adaptation are principal targets of wheat breeding but are hindered by limited knowledge on genetic basis of agronomic traits and abiotic stress tolerances. In this study, 277 wheat accessions were phenotyped across 30 environments with non-stress, drought-stressed, heat-stressed, and drought-heat-stressed treatments and were subjected to genome-wide association study using 395 681 single nucleotide polymorphisms. We detected 295 associated loci including consistent loci for agronomic traits across different treatments and eurytopic loci for multiple abiotic stress tolerances. A total of 22 loci overlapped with quantitative trait loci identified by biparental quantitative trait loci mapping. Six loci were simultaneously associated with agronomic traits and abiotic stress tolerance, four of which fell within selective sweep regions. Selection in Chinese wheat has increased the frequency of superior marker alleles controlling yield-related traits in the four loci during past decades, which conversely diminished favourable genetic variation controlling abiotic stress tolerance in the same loci; two promising candidate paralogous genes colocalized with such loci, thereby providing potential targets for studying the molecular mechanism of stress tolerance-productivity trade-off. These results uncovering promising alleles controlling agronomic traits and/or multiple abiotic stress tolerances, providing insights into heritable covariation between yield and abiotic stress tolerance, will accelerate future efforts for wheat improvement.
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- Long Li
- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterTexcoco56237Mexico
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- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Institute of Crop SciencesChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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Lawas LMF, Erban A, Kopka J, Jagadish SVK, Zuther E, Hincha DK. Metabolic responses of rice source and sink organs during recovery from combined drought and heat stress in the field. Gigascience 2019; 8:giz102. [PMID: 31433831 PMCID: PMC6703437 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Drought and heat stress effects on rice have been extensively studied, in particular during the sensitive flowering and grain-filling stages. However, in the field these stresses usually occur together because reduced transpirational cooling under drought conditions results in increased plant tissue temperature. In addition, environmental stresses are usually transient and the ability to efficiently recover from stress may be at least as important for overall stress tolerance as the direct stress response itself. Nevertheless, nothing is known about recovery mechanisms after drought and heat stress in rice under field conditions. RESULTS We have used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to elucidate the metabolic responses of flag leaves, flowering spikelets, and developing seeds from 3 rice cultivars differing in their drought and heat tolerance to rewatering after stress in the field. Within 60 hours after rewatering, many stress-responsive metabolites returned to their control levels, although recovery was not complete. In addition, control plants showed developmental differences that were revealed by metabolite profiles during 60 hours of post-stress sampling, in particular in developing seeds. Correlation analysis identified several metabolites as marker candidates for the stability of grain yield or quality under conditions of combined drought and heat stress. CONCLUSIONS The rewatering responses of stressed plants seemed to be a combination of the reversal of stress effects and reinitiation of development after stress relief. The identified potential markers can be useful in efforts to breed stress-tolerant rice germplasm to ensure food availability under changing climate conditions.
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- Lovely Mae F Lawas
- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, 1712 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Lawas LMF, Li X, Erban A, Kopka J, Jagadish SVK, Zuther E, Hincha DK. Metabolic responses of rice cultivars with different tolerance to combined drought and heat stress under field conditions. Gigascience 2019; 8:giz050. [PMID: 31081890 PMCID: PMC6511916 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Revised: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Rice is susceptible to both drought and heat stress, in particular during flowering and grain filling, when both grain yield and quality may be severely compromised. However, under field conditions, these 2 stresses rarely occur separately. Under well-watered conditions, plants avoid heat stress by transpirational cooling, while this is not possible under drought conditions. Although investigating combined drought and heat stress is clearly more agronomically relevant than analyzing the effects of the single stresses, only a few studies of this stress combination, in particular under field conditions, have been published. RESULTS Three rice cultivars differing in drought and heat tolerance were grown in the field under control and drought conditions in 3 consecutive years. Drought was applied either during flowering or during early grain filling and resulted in simultaneous heat stress, leading to reduced grain yield and quality. Analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry showed distinct metabolic profiles for the 3 investigated organs (flag leaves, flowering spikelets, developing seeds). The metabolic stress responses of the plants also strongly differed between cultivars and organs. Correlation analysis identified potential metabolic markers for grain yield and quality under combined drought and heat stress from both stress-regulated metabolites and from metabolites with constitutive differences between the cultivars. CONCLUSIONS Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry resolved metabolic responses to combined drought and heat stress in different organs of field-grown rice. The metabolite profiles can be used to identify potential marker metabolites for yield stability and grain quality that are expected to improve breeding efforts towards developing rice cultivars that are resilient to climate change.
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- Lovely Mae F Lawas
- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, 1712 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Kadam NN, Jagadish SVK, Struik PC, van der Linden CG, Yin X. Incorporating genome-wide association into eco-physiological simulation to identify markers for improving rice yields. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:2575-2586. [PMID: 30882149 PMCID: PMC6487590 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We explored the use of the eco-physiological crop model GECROS to identify markers for improved rice yield under well-watered (control) and water deficit conditions. Eight model parameters were measured from the control in one season for 267 indica genotypes. The model accounted for 58% of yield variation among genotypes under control and 40% under water deficit conditions. Using 213 randomly selected genotypes as the training set, 90 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci were identified using a genome-wide association study (GWAS), explaining 42-77% of crop model parameter variation. SNP-based parameter values estimated from the additive loci effects were fed into the model. For the training set, the SNP-based model accounted for 37% (control) and 29% (water deficit) of yield variation, less than the 78% explained by a statistical genomic prediction (GP) model for the control treatment. Both models failed in predicting yields of the 54 testing genotypes. However, compared with the GP model, the SNP-based crop model was advantageous when simulating yields under either control or water stress conditions in an independent season. Crop model sensitivity analysis ranked the SNP loci for their relative importance in accounting for yield variation, and the rank differed greatly between control and water deficit environments. Crop models have the potential to use single-environment information for predicting phenotypes under different environments.
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- Niteen N Kadam
- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
- International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Correspondence:
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Lekklar C, Pongpanich M, Suriya-arunroj D, Chinpongpanich A, Tsai H, Comai L, Chadchawan S, Buaboocha T. Genome-wide association study for salinity tolerance at the flowering stage in a panel of rice accessions from Thailand. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:76. [PMID: 30669971 PMCID: PMC6343365 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5317-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Salt stress, a major plant environmental stress, is a critical constraint for rice productivity. Dissecting the genetic loci controlling salt tolerance in rice for improving productivity, especially at the flowering stage, remains challenging. Here, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of salt tolerance based on exome sequencing of the Thai rice accessions. RESULTS Photosynthetic parameters and cell membrane stability under salt stress at the flowering stage; and yield-related traits of 104 Thai rice (Oryza sativa L.) accessions belonging to the indica subspecies were evaluated. The rice accessions were subjected to exome sequencing, resulting in 112,565 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) called with a minor allele frequency of at least 5%. LD decay analysis of the panel indicates that the average LD for SNPs at 20 kb distance from each other was 0.34 (r2), which decayed to its half value (~ 0.17) at around 80 kb. By GWAS performed using mixed linear model, two hundred loci containing 448 SNPs on exons were identified based on the salt susceptibility index of the net photosynthetic rate at day 6 after salt stress; and the number of panicles, filled grains and unfilled grains per plant. One hundred and forty six genes, which accounted for 73% of the identified loci, co-localized with the previously reported salt quantitative trait loci (QTLs). The top four regions that contained a high number of significant SNPs were found on chromosome 8, 12, 1 and 2. While many are novel, their annotation is consistent with potential involvement in plant salt tolerance and in related agronomic traits. These significant SNPs greatly help narrow down the region within these QTLs where the likely underlying candidate genes can be identified. CONCLUSIONS Insight into the contribution of potential genes controlling salt tolerance from this GWAS provides further understanding of salt tolerance mechanisms of rice at the flowering stage, which can help improve yield productivity under salinity via gene cloning and genomic selection.
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- Chakkree Lekklar
- Biological Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Center of Excellent in Environment and Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Omics Sciences and Bioinformatics Center, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Nakhon Ratchasima Rice Research Center, Rice Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA USA
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- Center of Excellent in Environment and Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Omics Sciences and Bioinformatics Center, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Center of Excellent in Environment and Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Omics Sciences and Bioinformatics Center, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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