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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 62, Issue 10, Pages 3621-3636Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err061
Keywords
Grain protein concentration; grain yield; leaf senescence; N uptake; QTLs; Triticum aestivum L
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) [IN-BB-06]
- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- BBSRC [BB/E527147/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E527147/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The genetic variability of the duration of leaf senescence during grain filling has been shown to affect both carbon and nitrogen acquisition. In particular, maintaining green leaves during grain filling possibly leads to increased grain yield, but its associated effect on grain protein concentration has not been studied. The aim of this study was to dissect the genetic factors contributing to correlations observed at the phenotypic level between leaf senescence during grain filling, grain protein concentration, and grain yield in winter wheat. With this aim in view, an analysis of quantitative trait locus (QTL) co-locations for these traits was carried out on a doubled haploid mapping population grown in a large multienvironment trial network. Pleiotropic QTLs affecting leaf senescence and grain yield and/or grain protein concentration were identified on chromosomes 2D, 2A, and 7D. These were associated with QTLs for anthesis date, showing that the phenotypic correlations with leaf senescence were mainly explained by flowering time in this wheat population. Study of the allelic effects of these pleiotropic QTLs showed that delaying leaf senescence was associated with increased grain yield or grain protein concentration depending on the environments considered. It is proposed that this differential effect of delaying leaf senescence on grain yield and grain protein concentration might be related to the nitrogen availability during the post-anthesis period. It is concluded that the benefit of using leaf senescence as a selection criterion to improve grain protein concentration in wheat cultivars may be limited and would largely depend on the targeted environments, particularly on their nitrogen availability during the post-anthesis period.
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