Journal
PLANT DISEASE
Volume 105, Issue 9, Pages 2435-2444Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-06-20-1361-RE
Keywords
wheat; Thinopyrum elongatum; FHB resistance; association mapping; Fhb7
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Funding
- U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative [USWBSI 17000549]
- USDA Hatch Program [1013073]
- Purdue College of Agriculture
- USWBSI
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This study identified 25 genomic regions associated with five FHB-related traits in a soft red winter wheat breeding population through genome-wide association studies. Individuals with favorable alleles at specific loci showed better resistance scores. While pyramiding multiple loci provides protection against FHB disease, it comes with a significant trade-off with grain yield.
Identification of quantitative trait loci for Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance from different sources and pyramiding them into cultivars could provide effective protection against FHB. The objective of this study was to characterize a soft red winter wheat (SRWW) breeding population that has been subjected to intense germplasm introduction and alien introgression for FHB resistance in the past. The population was evaluated under misted FHB nurseries inoculated with Fusarium graminearum-infested corn spawn for two years. Phenotypic data included disease incidence (INC), disease severity (SEV), Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK), FHB index (FHBdx), and deoxynivalenol concentration (DON). Genome-wide association studies using 13,784 SNP markers identified 25 genomic regions at -logP >= 4.0 that were associated with five FHB-related traits. Of these 25, the marker trait associations that explained more than 5% phenotypic variation were localized on chromosomes 1A, 2B, 3B, 5A, 7A, 7B, and 7D, and from diverse sources including adapted SRWW lines such as Truman and Bess, and unadapted common wheat lines such as Ning7840 and Fundulea 201R. Furthermore, individuals with favorable alleles at the four loci Fhb1, Qfhb.nc-2B.1 (Q(2B.1)), Q(7D.1), and Q(7D.2) showed better FDK and DON scores (but not INC, SEV, and FHBdx) compared with other allelic combinations. Our data also showed while pyramiding multiple loci provides protection against FHB disease, it has a significant trade-off with grain yield.
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