Genome-wide association study of Septoria tritici Blotch resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.affiliationScuola Superiore Sant'Anna
cg.contributor.affiliationSirinka Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International
cg.contributor.affiliationMekelle University
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01586
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1664-462X
cg.journalFrontiers in Plant Science
cg.number1586
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.bioversityFUNGAL DISEASES
cg.subject.bioversityHARD WHEAT
cg.subject.bioversityLAND RACES
cg.subject.bioversityQUANTITIATIVE TRAIT LOCI
cg.subject.bioversityDISEASE RESISTANCE
cg.volume8
dc.contributor.authorKidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat
dc.contributor.authorHailemariam, Bogale Nigir
dc.contributor.authorMengistu, D.K.
dc.contributor.authorFadda, Carlo
dc.contributor.authorPe, M.E.
dc.contributor.authorDell'Acqua, M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-30T15:20:05Zen
dc.date.available2017-12-30T15:20:05Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/89860
dc.titleGenome-wide association study of Septoria tritici Blotch resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat landracesen
dcterms.abstractSeptoria tritici blotch (STB) is a devastating fungal disease affecting durum and bread wheat cultivation worldwide. The identification, development, and employment of resistant wheat genetic material is the key to overcoming costs and limitations of fungicide treatments. The search for resistance sources in untapped genetic material may speed up the deployment of STB genetic resistance in the field. Ethiopian durum wheat landraces represent a valuable source of such diversity. In this study, 300 Ethiopian wheat genotypes, for the most part traditional landraces, were phenotyped for resistance to different aspects of STB infection. Phenology, yield and yield component traits were concurrently measured the collection. Here we describe the distribution of STB resistance traits in modern varieties and in landraces, and the relation existing between STB resistance and other agronomic traits. STB resistance sources were found in landraces as well as in modern varieties tested, suggesting the presence of alleles of breeding relevance. The genetic material was genotyped with more than 16 thousand genome-wide polymorphic markers to describe the linkage disequilibrium and genetic structure existing within the panel of genotypes, and a genome-wide association (GWA) study was run to allow the identification of genomic loci involved in STB resistance. High diversity and low genetic structure in the panel allowed high efficiency GWA. The GWA scan detected five major putative QTL for STB resistance, only partially overlapping those already reported in the wheat literature. We report four putative loci for Septoria resistance with no match in previous literature: two highly significant ones on Chr 3A and 5A, and two suggestive ones on Chr 4B and 5B. Markers underlying these QTL explained as much as 10% of the phenotypic variance for disease resistance. We found three cases in which putative QTL for agronomic traits overlapped marker trait association deriving from STB GWA. Our results show that the Ethiopian untapped allelic diversity bears a great value in studying the molecular basis of STB resistance and in breeding for resistance in local and international material.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2017-09-14
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKidane,Y.G.; Hailemariam, B.N.; Mengistu, D.K.; Fadda, C.; Pe, M.E.; Dell'Acqua, M. (2017) Genome-wide association study of Septoria tritici Blotch resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: article 1586. ISSN: 1664-462Xen
dcterms.extent12 p.
dcterms.issued2017-09-14
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Media
dcterms.subjectfungal diseasesen
dcterms.subjecthard wheaten
dcterms.subjectland racesen
dcterms.subjectquantitiative trait locien
dcterms.subjectdisease resistanceen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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