Genome-wide association mapping for pre-harvest sprouting in European winter wheat detects novel resistance QTL, pleiotropic effects, and structural variation in multiple genomes.
Hermann G Dallinger, Franziska Löschenberger, Naim Azrak, Christian Ametz, Sebastian Michel, Hermann Bürstmayr
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Abstract
Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS), germination of seeds before harvest, is a major problem in global wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production, and leads to reduced bread-making quality in affected grain. Breeding for PHS resistance can prevent losses under adverse conditions. Selecting resistant lines in years lacking pre-harvest rain, requires challenging of plants in the field or in the laboratory or using genetic markers. Despite the availability of a wheat reference and pan-genome, linking markers, genes, allelic, and structural variation, a complete understanding of the mechanisms underlying various sources of PHS resistance is still lacking. Therefore, we challenged a population of European wheat varieties and breeding lines with PHS conditions and phenotyped them for PHS traits, grain quality, phenological and agronomic traits to conduct genome-wide association mapping. Furthermore, we compared these marker-trait associations to previously reported PHS loci and evaluated their usefulness for breeding. We found markers associated with PHS on all chromosomes, with strong evidence for novel quantitative trait locus/loci (QTL) on chromosome 1A and 5B. The QTL on chromosome 1A lacks pleiotropic effect, for the QTL on 5B we detected pleiotropic effects on phenology and grain quality. Multiple peaks on chromosome 4A co-located with the major resistance locus Phs-A1, for which two causal genes, TaPM19 and TaMKK3, have been proposed. Mapping markers and genes to the pan-genome and chromosomal alignments provide evidence for structural variation around this major PHS-resistance locus. Although PHS is controlled by many loci distributed across the wheat genome, Phs-A1 on chromosome 4A seems to be the most effective and widely deployed source of resistance, in European wheat varieties.
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The Plant Genome publishes original research investigating all aspects of plant genomics. Technical breakthroughs reporting improvements in the efficiency and speed of acquiring and interpreting plant genomics data are welcome. The editorial board gives preference to novel reports that use innovative genomic applications that advance our understanding of plant biology that may have applications to crop improvement. The journal also publishes invited review articles and perspectives that offer insight and commentary on recent advances in genomics and their potential for agronomic improvement.