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Rabbi SMHA, Kumar A, Mohajeri Naraghi S, Sapkota S, Alamri MS, Elias EM, Kianian S, Seetan R, Missaoui A, Solanki S, Mergoum M. Identification of Main-Effect and Environmental Interaction QTL and Their Candidate Genes for Drought Tolerance in a Wheat RIL Population Between Two Elite Spring Cultivars. Front Genet 2021; 12:656037. [PMID: 34220939 PMCID: PMC8249774 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.656037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Understanding the genetics of drought tolerance can expedite the development of drought-tolerant cultivars in wheat. In this study, we dissected the genetics of drought tolerance in spring wheat using a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population derived from a cross between a drought-tolerant cultivar, ‘Reeder’ (PI613586), and a high-yielding but drought-susceptible cultivar, ‘Albany.’ The RIL population was evaluated for grain yield (YLD), grain volume weight (GVW), thousand kernel weight (TKW), plant height (PH), and days to heading (DH) at nine different environments. The Infinium 90 k-based high-density genetic map was generated using 10,657 polymorphic SNP markers representing 2,057 unique loci. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis detected a total of 11 consistent QTL for drought tolerance-related traits. Of these, six QTL were exclusively identified in drought-prone environments, and five were constitutive QTL (identified under both drought and normal conditions). One major QTL on chromosome 7B was identified exclusively under drought environments and explained 13.6% of the phenotypic variation (PV) for YLD. Two other major QTL were detected, one each on chromosomes 7B and 2B under drought-prone environments, and explained 14.86 and 13.94% of phenotypic variation for GVW and YLD, respectively. One novel QTL for drought tolerance was identified on chromosome 2D. In silico expression analysis of candidate genes underlaying the exclusive QTLs associated with drought stress identified the enrichment of ribosomal and chloroplast photosynthesis-associated proteins showing the most expression variability, thus possibly contributing to stress response by modulating the glycosyltransferase (TraesCS6A01G116400) and hexosyltransferase (TraesCS7B01G013300) unique genes present in QTL 21 and 24, respectively. While both parents contributed favorable alleles to these QTL, unexpectedly, the high-yielding and less drought-tolerant parent contributed desirable alleles for drought tolerance at four out of six loci. Regardless of the origin, all QTL with significant drought tolerance could assist significantly in the development of drought-tolerant wheat cultivars, using genomics-assisted breeding approaches.
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- S M Hisam Al Rabbi
- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States
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- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, United States
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- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United States.,Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United States.,Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United States
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Kumar A, Mantovani EE, Seetan R, Soltani A, Echeverry-Solarte M, Jain S, Simsek S, Doehlert D, Alamri MS, Elias EM, Kianian SF, Mergoum M. Dissection of Genetic Factors underlying Wheat Kernel Shape and Size in an Elite × Nonadapted Cross using a High Density SNP Linkage Map. Plant Genome 2016; 9. [PMID: 27898771 DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.09.0081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Wheat kernel shape and size has been under selection since early domestication. Kernel morphology is a major consideration in wheat breeding, as it impacts grain yield and quality. A population of 160 recombinant inbred lines (RIL), developed using an elite (ND 705) and a nonadapted genotype (PI 414566), was extensively phenotyped in replicated field trials and genotyped using Infinium iSelect 90K assay to gain insight into the genetic architecture of kernel shape and size. A high density genetic map consisting of 10,172 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers, with an average marker density of 0.39 cM/marker, identified a total of 29 genomic regions associated with six grain shape and size traits; ∼80% of these regions were associated with multiple traits. The analyses showed that kernel length (KL) and width (KW) are genetically independent, while a large number (∼59%) of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) for kernel shape traits were in common with genomic regions associated with kernel size traits. The most significant QTL was identified on chromosome 4B, and could be an ortholog of major rice grain size and shape gene or . Major and stable loci also were identified on the homeologous regions of Group 5 chromosomes, and in the regions of (6A) and (7A) genes. Both parental genotypes contributed equivalent positive QTL alleles, suggesting that the nonadapted germplasm has a great potential for enhancing the gene pool for grain shape and size. This study provides new knowledge on the genetic dissection of kernel morphology, with a much higher resolution, which may aid further improvement in wheat yield and quality using genomic tools.
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Kumar A, Seetan R, Mergoum M, Tiwari VK, Iqbal MJ, Wang Y, Al-Azzam O, Šimková H, Luo MC, Dvorak J, Gu YQ, Denton A, Kilian A, Lazo GR, Kianian SF. Radiation hybrid maps of the D-genome of Aegilops tauschii and their application in sequence assembly of large and complex plant genomes. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:800. [PMID: 26475137 PMCID: PMC4609151 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2030-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The large and complex genome of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L., ~17 Gb) requires high resolution genome maps with saturated marker scaffolds to anchor and orient BAC contigs/ sequence scaffolds for whole genome assembly. Radiation hybrid (RH) mapping has proven to be an excellent tool for the development of such maps for it offers much higher and more uniform marker resolution across the length of the chromosome compared to genetic mapping and does not require marker polymorphism per se, as it is based on presence (retention) vs. absence (deletion) marker assay. METHODS In this study, a 178 line RH panel was genotyped with SSRs and DArT markers to develop the first high resolution RH maps of the entire D-genome of Ae. tauschii accession AL8/78. To confirm map order accuracy, the AL8/78-RH maps were compared with:1) a DArT consensus genetic map constructed using more than 100 bi-parental populations, 2) a RH map of the D-genome of reference hexaploid wheat 'Chinese Spring', and 3) two SNP-based genetic maps, one with anchored D-genome BAC contigs and another with anchored D-genome sequence scaffolds. Using marker sequences, the RH maps were also anchored with a BAC contig based physical map and draft sequence of the D-genome of Ae. tauschii. RESULTS A total of 609 markers were mapped to 503 unique positions on the seven D-genome chromosomes, with a total map length of 14,706.7 cR. The average distance between any two marker loci was 29.2 cR which corresponds to 2.1 cM or 9.8 Mb. The average mapping resolution across the D-genome was estimated to be 0.34 Mb (Mb/cR) or 0.07 cM (cM/cR). The RH maps showed almost perfect agreement with several published maps with regard to chromosome assignments of markers. The mean rank correlations between the position of markers on AL8/78 maps and the four published maps, ranged from 0.75 to 0.92, suggesting a good agreement in marker order. With 609 mapped markers, a total of 2481 deletions for the whole D-genome were detected with an average deletion size of 42.0 Mb. A total of 520 markers were anchored to 216 Ae. tauschii sequence scaffolds, 116 of which were not anchored earlier to the D-genome. CONCLUSION This study reports the development of first high resolution RH maps for the D-genome of Ae. tauschii accession AL8/78, which were then used for the anchoring of unassigned sequence scaffolds. This study demonstrates how RH mapping, which offered high and uniform resolution across the length of the chromosome, can facilitate the complete sequence assembly of the large and complex plant genomes.
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- Ajay Kumar
- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
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- Department of Computer Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, 16057, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, 94710, USA
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- Department of Computer Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
- Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 56301, USA
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- Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 783 71, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Šlechtitelů 31, 783-71, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, 94710, USA
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- Department of Computer Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
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- Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Limited, 1 Wilf Crane Crescent, Yarralumla, ACT2600, Australia
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- USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, 94710, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA.
- USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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Mazaheri M, Kianian P, Kumar A, Mergoum M, Seetan R, Soltani A, Lund LI, Pirseyedi SM, Denton AM, Kianian SF. Radiation Hybrid Map of Barley Chromosome 3H. Plant Genome 2015; 8:eplantgenome2015.02.0005. [PMID: 33228309 DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.02.0005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Accepted: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Assembly of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genome is complicated by its large size (5.1 Gb) and proportion of repetitive elements (84%). This process is facilitated by high resolution maps for aligning bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) contigs along chromosomes. Available genetic maps, however, do not provide accurate information on the physical position of a large portion of the genome located in recombination-poor regions. Radiation hybrid (RH) mapping is an alternative approach, which is based on radiation-induced deletions along the length of chromosomes. In this study, the first RH map for barley chromosome 3H was developed. In total, 373 in vivo RH lines were generated by irradiating wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-barley chromosome 3H addition lines and crossing them to a normal wheat cultivar. Each RH informative line (containing deletions) had, on average, three deletions. The induced deletion size varied from 36.58 Kb to 576.00 Mb, with an average length of 52.42 Mb. This initial chromosome 3H radiation hybrid (3H-RH) map had a 9.53× higher resolution than an analogous genetic map, reaching a maximum of >262.40× resolution in regions around the centromere. The final RH map was 3066.1 cR in length, with a 0.76 Mb resolution. It was estimated that the map resolution can be improved to an average of 30.34 Kb by saturating the 3H-RH map with molecular markers. The generated RH panel enabled alignment of BAC and sequenced contigs as small as 1.50 Kb in size. The high resolution and the coverage of poor-recombination regions make RH maps an ideal resource for barley genome assembly, as well as other genetic studies.
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- Mona Mazaheri
- Dep. of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Dep. of Horticultural Science, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108
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- Dep. of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Dep. of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Dep. of Math, Science, and Technology, Univ. of Minnesota, Crookston, MN
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- Dep. of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Dep. of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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- Dep. of Computer Sciences, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, 58108
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