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Simultaneous Improvement and Genetic Dissection of Salt Tolerance of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Designed QTL Pyramiding
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Breeding of multi-stress tolerant rice varieties with higher grain yields is the best option to enhance the rice productivity of abiotic stresses prone areas. It also poses the greatest challenge to plant breeders to breed rice varieties for such stress prone conditions. Here, we carried out a designed QTL pyramiding experiment to develop high yielding “Green Super Rice” varieties with significantly improved tolerance to salt stress and grain yield. Using the F4 population derived from a cross between two selected introgression lines, we were able to develop six mostly homozygous promising high yielding lines with significantly improved salt tolerance and grain yield under optimal and/or saline conditions in three years. Simultaneous mapping using the same breeding population and tunable genotyping-by-sequencing technology, we identified three QTL affecting salt injury score and leaf chlorophyll content. By analyzing 32M SNP data of the grandparents and graphical genotypes of the parents, we discovered 87 positional candidate genes for salt tolerant QTL. According to their functional annotation, we inferred the most likely candidate genes. We demonstrated that designed QTL pyramiding is a powerful strategy for simultaneous improvement and genetic dissection of complex traits in rice.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pang, Y., Chen, K., Wang, X., Wang, W., Xu, J., Ali, J., & Li, Z.
- Affiliations
- International Rice Research Institute (PH)
- Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Ali, Jauhar
- Li, Zhikang
- Venue
- Frontiers in Plant Science
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2017-07-20
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 1275-1275
- ISSN
- 1664-462X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5517400
- OpenAlex
- W2737305023
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 59
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- FWCI
- 3.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Frontiers in Plant Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1130530, Y2017CG21)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31501291, OPP1130530, 2015BAD02B01-2, 31471429)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Keywords
- salt tolerance, rice, QTL pyramiding, green super rice, grain yield, introgression lines, leaf chlorophyll content, candidate genes, abiotic stress tolerance
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