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Trend, population structure, and trait mapping from 15 years of national varietal trials of UK winter wheat

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G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
卷 12, 期 2, 页码 -

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab415

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wheat; SNP; GWAS; NAM-A1; trend analysis

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  1. UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Designing Future Wheat program [BB/P016855/1]
  2. Royal Society FLAIR award [FLR\R1\1918500]

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There are a variety of genomic and genotypic resources available for wheat researchers and breeders. However, generating high-quality phenotyping data that captures gene x environment interactions remains a challenge. By using historical data from national variety performance trials, researchers examined temporal trends and gene x environment interactions for traits related to yield, adaptation, and grain quality performance in UK winter wheat varieties. They found non-stationary linear trends for several traits and identified significant marker-trait associations on wheat chromosome 6A. These findings highlight the value of utilizing historical data for studying breeding progress and the genetic architecture of important traits.
There are now a rich variety of genomic and genotypic resources available to wheat researchers and breeders. However, the generation of high-quality and field-relevant phenotyping data which is required to capture the complexities of gene x environment interactions remains a major bottleneck. Historical datasets from national variety performance trials (NVPT) provide sufficient dimensions, in terms of numbers of years and locations, to examine phenotypic trends and study gene x environment interactions. Using NVPT for winter wheat varieties grown in the United Kingdom between 2002 and 2017, we examined temporal trends for eight traits related to yield, adaptation, and grain quality performance. We show a non-stationary linear trend for yield, grain protein content, Hagberg Falling Number (HFN), and days to ripening. Our data also show high environmental stability for yield, grain protein content, and specific weight in UK winter wheat varieties and high environmental sensitivity for HFN. We also show that UK varieties released within this period cluster into four main population groups. Using the historical NVPT data in a genome-wide association analysis, we uncovered a significant marker-trait association peak on wheat chromosome 6A spanning the NAM-A1 gene that have been previously associated with early senescence. Together, our results show the value of utilizing the data routinely collected during national variety evaluation process for examining breeding progress and the genetic architecture of important traits.

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