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. 2020 Jun 25;15(6):e0234882.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234882. eCollection 2020.

Mapping QTLs for enhancing early biomass derived from Aegilops tauschii in synthetic hexaploid wheat

Yumin Yang  1   2   3 , Hongshen Wan  3   4 , Fan Yang  1 , Chun Xiao  2 , Jun Li  3   4 , Meijin Ye  1 , Chunxiu Chen  2 , Guangmin Deng  2 , Qin Wang  3   4 , Aili Li  5 , Long Mao  5 , Wuyun Yang  3   4 , Yonghong Zhou  1
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Mapping QTLs for enhancing early biomass derived from Aegilops tauschii in synthetic hexaploid wheat

Yumin Yang et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Strong early vigour plays a crucial role in wheat yield improvement by enhancing resource utilization efficiency. Synthetic hexaploid wheat (SHW) combines the elite genes of tetraploid wheat with Aegilops tauschii and has been widely used in wheat genetic improvement for its abundant genetic variation. The two SHWs Syn79 and Syn80 were derived from the crossing of the same tetraploid wheat DOY1 with two different Ae. tauschii accessions, AT333 and AT428, respectively. The Syn80 possessed better early vigour traits than Syn79, theretically caused by their D genome from Ae. tauschii. To dissect their genetic basis in a hexaploid background, 203 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from the cross of Syn79 x Syn80 were developed to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for four early biomass related traits: plant height (PH), tiller number (TN), shoot fresh weight (SFW) and shoot dry weight (SDW) per plant, under five different environmental conditions. Determined from the data of SNP markers, two genome regions on 1DS and 7D were stably associated with the four early biomass related traits showing pleiotropic effects. Four stable QTLs QPh.saas-1DS, QTn.saas-1DS, QSfw.saas-1DS and QSdw.saas-1DS explaining 7.92, 15.34, 9.64 and 10.15% of the phenotypic variation, respectively, were clustered in the region of 1DS from AX-94812958 to AX-110910133. Meanwhile, QPh.saas-7D, QTn.saas-7D, QSfw.saas-7D and QSdw.saas-7D were flanked by AX-109917900 and AX-110605376 on 7D, explaining 16.12, 24.35, 15.25 and 13.37% of the phenotypic variation on average, respectively. Moreover, these genomic QTLs on 1DS and 7D enhancing biomass in the parent Syn80 were from Ae. tauschii AT428. These findings suggest that these two QTLs from Ae. tauschii can be expressed stably in a hexaploid background at the jointing stage and be used for wheat improvement.

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Fig 1. Early growth of the two parents and their RILs in the jointing stage.
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Fig 2. Distribution graph of the phenotypic data for plant height (PH), tiller number per plant (TN), shoot fresh weight (SFW) and shoot dry weight (SDW) under five different environments.
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Fig 3. QTLs for plant height (PH), tiller number (TN), shoot fresh weight (SFW) and shoot dry weight (SDW) detected on 1D and 7D in five separate trials.
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