Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 112, Issue 4, Pages 897-918Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15952
Keywords
genomic regions under selection; private alleles; plant genetic resources; genebank; population genetics; coverage analysis; crop improvement; genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS); iSelect chip; Triticum
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- German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture [2814603813]
- European Community [FP7-613556]
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK, Gatersleben, Germany)
- Government of Norway
- Projekt DEAL
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This study investigates the genetic diversity in a diverse collection of wheat cultivars and genebank accessions. The results provide valuable insights into population structure, genetic diversity levels, sources of new allelic diversity, and breeding-driven changes in the genome. These findings have implications for future breeding efforts and the targeted introduction of novel allelic diversity.
Breeding has increasingly altered the genetics of crop plants since the domestication of their wild progenitors. It is postulated that the genetic diversity of elite wheat breeding pools is too narrow to cope with future challenges. In contrast, plant genetic resources (PGRs) of wheat stored in genebanks are valuable sources of unexploited genetic diversity. Therefore, to ensure breeding progress in the future, it is of prime importance to identify the useful allelic diversity available in PGRs and to transfer it into elite breeding pools. Here, a diverse collection consisting of modern winter wheat cultivars and genebank accessions was investigated based on reduced-representation genomic sequencing and an iSelect single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip array. Analyses of these datasets provided detailed insights into population structure, levels of genetic diversity, sources of new allelic diversity, and genomic regions affected by breeding activities. We identified 57 regions representing genomic signatures of selection and 827 regions representing private alleles associated exclusively with genebank accessions. The presence of known functional wheat genes, quantitative trait loci, and large chromosomal modifications, i.e., introgressions from wheat wild relatives, provided initial evidence for putative traits associated within these identified regions. These findings were supported by the results of ontology enrichment analyses. The results reported here will stimulate further research and promote breeding in the future by allowing for the targeted introduction of novel allelic diversity into elite wheat breeding pools.
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