期刊
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.807210
关键词
candidate gene; grain yield; meta-QTL; NUE; orthologue; rice; root
资金
- Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India [BT/PR30871/BIC/101/1159/2018, BT/PR31462/ATGC/127/6/2019]
- GCRF Global Research Translation Awards, UKRI, United Kingdom
This study identified 76 MQTL with stable effects related to improving rice grain yield by conducting meta-QTL analysis on 1,330 QTL from 29 studies over the past 20 years. Candidate genes and hot spot regions associated with correlated traits were identified, with validation conducted on rice and wheat in previous studies. Interventions based on research findings, such as improving nitrogen use efficiency through identification of major genomic regions and candidate genes, present a feasible, simple, and cost-effective solution for addressing challenges in crop improvement programs.
The phenomenal increase in the use of nitrogenous fertilizers coupled with poor nitrogen use efficiency is among the most important threats to the environment, economic, and social health. During the last 2 decades, a number of genomic regions associated with nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and related traits have been reported by different research groups, but none of the stable and major effect QTL have been utilized in the marker-assisted introgression/pyramiding program. Compiling the data available in the literature could be very useful in identifying stable and major effect genomic regions associated with the root and NUE-related trait improving the rice grain yield. In the present study, we performed meta-QTL analysis on 1,330 QTL from 29 studies published in the past 2 decades. A total of 76 MQTL with a stable effect over different genetic backgrounds and environments were identified. The significant reduction in the confidence interval of the MQTL compared to the initial QTL resulted in the identification of annotated and putative candidate genes related to the traits considered in the present study. A hot spot region associated with correlated traits on chr 1, 4, and 8 and candidate genes associated with nitrate transporters, nitrogen content, and ammonium uptake on chromosomes 2, 4, 6, and 8 have been identified. The identified MQTL, putative candidate genes, and their orthologues were validated on our previous studies conducted on rice and wheat. The research-based interventions such as improving nitrogen use efficiency via identification of major genomic regions and candidate genes can be a plausible, simple, and low-cost solution to address the challenges of the crop improvement program.
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