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Mapping quantitative trait loci associated with leaf rust resistance in five spring wheat populations using single nucleotide polymorphism markers
PLoS ONE
  • Firdissa E. Bokore, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Ron E. Knox, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Richard D. Cuthbert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Curtis J. Pozniak, University of Saskatchewan
  • Brent D. McCallum, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Amidou N’Diaye, University of Saskatchewan
  • Ron M. DePauw, Advancing Wheat Technologies
  • Heather L. Campbell, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Catherine Munro, Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre
  • Arti Singh, Iowa State University
  • Colin W. Hiebert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Curt A. McCartney, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Andrew G. Sharpe, University of Saskatchewan
  • Asheesh K. Singh, Iowa State University
  • Dean Spaner, University of Alberta
  • D. B. Fowler, University of Saskatchewan
  • Yuefeng Ruan, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Samia Berraies, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Brad Meyer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
4-8-2020
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0230855
Abstract

Growing resistant wheat (Triticum aestivum L) varieties is an important strategy for the control of leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks. This study sought to identify the chromosomal location and effects of leaf rust resistance loci in five Canadian spring wheat cultivars. The parents and doubled haploid lines of crosses Carberry/AC Cadillac, Carberry/Vesper, Vesper/Lillian, Vesper/Stettler and Stettler/Red Fife were assessed for leaf rust severity and infection response in field nurseries in Canada near Swift Current, SK from 2013 to 2015, Morden, MB from 2015 to 2017 and Brandon, MB in 2016, and in New Zealand near Lincoln in 2014. The populations were genotyped with the 90K Infinium iSelect assay and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis was performed. A high density consensus map generated based on 14 doubled haploid populations and integrating SNP and SSR markers was used to compare QTL identified in different populations. AC Cadillac contributed QTL on chromosomes 2A, 3B and 7B (2 loci), Carberry on 1A, 2B (2 loci), 2D, 4B (2 loci), 5A, 6A, 7A and 7D, Lillian on 4A and 7D, Stettler on 2D and 6B, Vesper on 1B, 1D, 2A, 6B and 7B (2 loci), and Red Fife on 7A and 7B. Lillian contributed to a novel locus QLr.spa-4A, and similarly Carberry at QLr.spa-5A. The discovery of novel leaf rust resistance QTL QLr.spa-4A and QLr.spa-5A, and several others in contemporary Canada Western Red Spring wheat varieties is a tremendous addition to our present knowledge of resistance gene deployment in breeding. Carberry demonstrated substantial stacking of genes which could be supplemented with the genes identified in other cultivars with the expectation of increasing efficacy of resistance to leaf rust and longevity with little risk of linkage drag.

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This article is published as Bokore FE, Knox RE, Cuthbert RD, Pozniak CJ, McCallum BD, N’Diaye A, et al. (2020) Mapping quantitative trait loci associated with leaf rust resistance in five spring wheat populations using single nucleotide polymorphism markers. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0230855. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230855.

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Firdissa E. Bokore, Ron E. Knox, Richard D. Cuthbert, Curtis J. Pozniak, et al.. "Mapping quantitative trait loci associated with leaf rust resistance in five spring wheat populations using single nucleotide polymorphism markers" PLoS ONE Vol. 15 Iss. 4 (2020) p. e0230855
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