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Genetic dissection of early-season cold tolerance in sorghum: genome-wide association studies for seedling emergence and survival under field and controlled environment conditions

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Genetic dissection of early-season cold tolerance in sorghum: genome-wide association studies for seedling emergence and survival under field and controlled environment conditions
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Theoretical and Applied Genetics, November 2017
DOI 10.1007/s00122-017-3021-2
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Sebastian Parra-Londono, Karin Fiedler, Mareike Kavka, Birgit Samans, Silke Wieckhorst, Arndt Zacharias, Ralf Uptmoor

Abstract

A QTL on sorghum chromosome SBI-06 putatively improves field emergence under low-temperature conditions. Low temperatures decisively limit seedling emergence and vigor during early growth of sorghum and, thus, strongly impair geographical expansion. To broaden sorghum cultivation to temperate regions, the establishment of cold-tolerant genotypes is a prioritized breeding goal. The present study aims at the quantification of seedling emergence and survival under chilling temperatures and the detection of marker-trait associations controlling temperature-related seedling establishment. A diversity set consisting of 194 biomass sorghum lines was subjected to extensive phenotyping comprising field trials and controlled environment experiments. The final emergence percentage (FEP) under field conditions was significantly reduced under cold stress. Broad-sense heritability was h 2 = 0.87 for FEP in the field and h 2 = 0.93 for seedling survival rate (SR) under controlled conditions. Correlations between FEP in the field and under controlled conditions were low; higher correlations were observed between field FEP and SR in controlled environments. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were conducted using 44,515 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and revealed eight regions with suggestive marker-trait associations for FEP and SR on chromosomes SBI-01, -02, -03, -06, -09, and -10 (p < 5.7 × 10-5) and a significant association on SBI-06 for field FEP (p < 2.9 × 10-6). Although not significant under controlled conditions, SR of genotypes carrying the minor allele on the field FEP quantitative trait loci (QTL) on SBI-06 was on average 13.1% higher, while FEP under controlled conditions was on average 9.7% higher with a linearly decreasing effect with increasing temperatures (R 2 = 0.82). Promising candidate genes putatively conferring seedling cold tolerance were identified.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 13%
Researcher 5 13%
Other 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 57%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 13%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 9 23%
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