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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01275
Keywords
designed QTL pyramiding; green super rice; grain yield; salt tolerance; tGBS
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- ZKL from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1130530]
- National Key Technology Support Program [2015BAD01B02, 2015BAD02B01-2-1]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31501291, 31471429]
- Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund [Y2017CG21]
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Breeding of multi-stress tolerant rice varieties with higher grain yields is the best option to enhance the rice productivity of abiotic stresses prone areas. It also poses the greatest challenge to plant breeders to breed rice varieties for such stress prone conditions. Here, we carried out a designed QTL pyramiding experiment to develop high yielding Green Super Rice varieties with significantly improved tolerance to salt stress and grain yield. Using the F-4 population derived from a cross between two selected introgression lines, we were able to develop six mostly homozygous promising high yielding lines with significantly improved salt tolerance and grain yield under optimal and/or saline conditions in 3 years. Simultaneous mapping using the same breeding population and tunable genotyping-by-sequencing technology, we identified three QTL affecting salt injury score and leaf chlorophyll content. By analyzing 32M SNP data of the grandparents and graphical genotypes of the parents, we discovered 87 positional candidate genes for salt tolerant QTL. According to their functional annotation, we inferred the most likely candidate genes. We demonstrated that designed QTL pyramiding is a powerful strategy for simultaneous improvement and genetic dissection of complex traits in rice.
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