Evaluation of genomic approaches for marker‐based improvement of lodging tolerance in triticale

Lodging tolerance is an important agronomic trait as it can have a severe negative impact on grain yield and quality. Here, we used a large mapping population of 647 doubled haploid triticale lines derived from four families to dissect the genetic architecture underlying lodging tolerance and to ass...

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Published in:Plant breeding 2015-08, Vol.134 (4), p.416-422
Main Authors: Liu, Wenxin, Leiser, Willmar L., Maurer, Hans Peter, Li, Junhui, Weissmann, Sigrid, Hahn, Volker, Würschum, Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Gene mapping
genomic prediction
Genomics
Genotype & phenotype
Lodging
lodging tolerance
QTL mapping
triticale
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Summary:Lodging tolerance is an important agronomic trait as it can have a severe negative impact on grain yield and quality. Here, we used a large mapping population of 647 doubled haploid triticale lines derived from four families to dissect the genetic architecture underlying lodging tolerance and to assess different approaches for a genomics‐based improvement of the trait. The plants were evaluated for lodging in two environments and genotyped with 1710 genomewide DArT markers. We observed a large genotypic variation for lodging and transgressive segregation in all families. Employing two complementary QTL mapping approaches, we identified both main effect and epistatic QTL. Using cross‐validation, we showed that the proportion of genotypic variance explained by the detected QTL is low, thus limiting the efficiency of marker‐assisted selection to improve this trait. By contrast, the cross‐validated predictive ability of genomic prediction was approximately twice as high as that of the QTL‐based selection approaches. In conclusion, our results show that lodging tolerance is a complex trait that can be improved by classical breeding but also assisted by marker‐based approaches.
ISSN:0179-9541
1439-0523
DOI:10.1111/pbr.12284