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Amosova AV, Gnutikov AA, Rodionov AV, Loskutov IG, Nosov NN, Yurkevich OY, Samatadze TE, Zoshchuk SA, Muravenko OV. Genome Variability in Artificial Allopolyploid Hybrids of Avena sativa L. and Avena macrostachya Balansa ex Coss. et Durieu Based on Marker Sequences of Satellite DNA and the ITS1-5.8S rDNA Region. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:5534. [PMID: 38791572 PMCID: PMC11122565 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25105534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2024] [Revised: 05/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Artificial hybrids between cultivated Avena species and wild Avena macrostachya that possess genes for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses can be important for oat breeding. For the first time, a comprehensive study of genomes of artificial fertile hybrids Avena sativa × Avena macrostachya and their parental species was carried out based on the chromosome FISH mapping of satellite DNA sequences (satDNAs) and also analysis of intragenomic polymorphism in the 18S-ITS1-5.8S rDNA region, using NGS data. Chromosome distribution patterns of marker satDNAs allowed us to identify all chromosomes in the studied karyotypes, determine their subgenomic affiliation, and detect several chromosome rearrangements. Based on the obtained cytogenomic data, we revealed differences between two A. macrostachya subgenomes and demonstrated that only one of them was inherited in the studied octoploid hybrids. Ribotype analyses showed that the second major ribotype of A. macrostachya was species-specific and was not represented in rDNA pools of the octoploids, which could be related to the allopolyploid origin of this species. Our results indicate that the use of marker satDNAs in cytogenomic studies can provide important data on genomic relationships within Avena allopolyploid species and hybrids, and also expand the potential for interspecific crosses for breeding.
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- Alexandra V. Amosova
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
- Federal Research Center N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR), 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Federal Research Center N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR), 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Konieczna W, Mierek-Adamska A, Chojnacka N, Antoszewski M, Szydłowska-Czerniak A, Dąbrowska GB. Characterization of the Metallothionein Gene Family in Avena sativa L. and the Gene Expression during Seed Germination and Heavy Metal Stress. Antioxidants (Basel) 2023; 12:1865. [PMID: 37891944 PMCID: PMC10603854 DOI: 10.3390/antiox12101865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of small proteins rich in cysteine residues. The sulfhydryl group of metallothioneins can bind to metal ions, maintaining metal homeostasis and protecting the cells from damage caused by toxic heavy metals. Moreover, MTs can function as reactive oxygen species scavengers since cysteine thiols undergo reversible and irreversible oxidation. Here, we identified 21 metallothionein genes (AsMTs) in the oat (Avena sativa L.) genome, which were divided into four types depending on the amino acid sequences of putative proteins encoded by identified genes. Analysis of promoter sequences showed that MTs might respond to a variety of stimuli, including biotic and abiotic stresses and phytohormones. The results of qRT-PCR showed that all four types of AsMTs are differentially expressed during the first 48 hours of seed germination. Moreover, stress induced by the application of zinc, cadmium, and a mixture of zinc and cadmium affects the expression of oat MTs variously depending on the MT type, indicating that AsMT1-4 fulfil different roles in plant cells.
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- Wiktoria Konieczna
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland; (W.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland; (W.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland; (W.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland; (W.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland;
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland; (W.K.); (M.A.)
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Nazareno ES, Fiedler JD, Ardayfio NK, Miller ME, Figueroa M, Kianian SF. Genetic Analysis and Physical Mapping of Oat Adult Plant Resistance Loci Against Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2023; 113:1307-1316. [PMID: 36721375 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-10-22-0395-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Six quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for adult plant resistance against oat crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae) were identified from mapping three recombinant inbred populations. Using genotyping-by-sequencing with markers called against the OT3098 v1 reference genome, the QTLs were mapped on six different chromosomes: Chr1D, Chr4D, Chr5A, Chr5D, Chr7A, and Chr7C. Composite interval mapping with marker cofactor selection showed that the phenotypic variance explained by all identified QTLs for coefficient of infection range from 12.2 to 46.9%, whereas heritability estimates ranged from 0.11 to 0.38. The significant regions were narrowed down to intervals of 3.9 to 25 cM, equivalent to physical distances of 11 to 133 Mb. At least two flanking single-nucleotide polymorphism markers were identified within 10 cM of each QTL that could be used in marker-assisted introgression, pyramiding, and selection. The additive effects of the QTLs in each population were determined using single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotype data, which showed a significantly lower coefficient of infection in lines homozygous for the resistant alleles. Analysis of pairwise linkage disequilibrium also revealed high correlation of markers and presence of linkage blocks in the significant regions. To further facilitate marker-assisted breeding, polymerase chain reaction allelic competitive extension (PACE) markers for the adult plant resistance loci were developed. Putative candidate genes were also identified in each of the significant regions, which include resistance gene analogs that encode for kinases, ligases, and predicted receptors of avirulence proteins from pathogens.
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- Eric S Nazareno
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
- Pairwise Plants, LLC, 807 East Main Street, Suite 4-100, Durham, NC, U.S.A
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A
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Koroluk A, Sowa S, Boczkowska M, Paczos-Grzęda E. Utilizing Genomics to Characterize the Common Oat Gene Pool—The Story of More than a Century of Polish Breeding. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24076547. [PMID: 37047519 PMCID: PMC10094864 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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This study was undertaken to investigate the diversity and population structure of 487 oat accessions, including breeding lines from the ongoing programs of the three largest Polish breeding companies, along with modern and historical Polish and foreign cultivars. The analysis was based on 7411 DArTseq-derived SNPs distributed among three sub-genomes (A, C, and D). The heterogeneity of the studied material was very low, as only cultivars and advanced breeding lines were examined. Principal component analysis (PCA), principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), and cluster and STRUCTURE analyses found congruent results, which show that most of the examined cultivars and materials from Polish breeding programs formed major gene pools, that only some accessions derived from Strzelce Plant Breeding, and that foreign cultivars were outside of the main group. During the 120 year oat breeding process, only 67 alleles from the old gene pool were lost and replaced by 67 new alleles. The obtained results indicate that no erosion of genetic diversity was observed within the Polish native oat gene pool. Moreover, current oat breeding programs have introduced 673 new alleles into the gene pool relative to historical cultivars. The analysis also showed that most of the changes in relation to historical cultivars occurred within the A sub-genome with emphasis on chromosome 6A. The targeted changes were the rarest in the C sub-genome. This study showed that Polish oat breeding based mainly on traditional breeding methods—although focused on improving traits typical to this crop, i.e., enhancing the grain yield and quality and improving adaptability—did not significantly narrow the oat gene pool and in fact produced cultivars that are not only competitive in the European market but are also reservoirs of new alleles that were not found in the analyzed foreign materials.
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Wang L, Xu J, Wang H, Chen T, You E, Bian H, Chen W, Zhang B, Shen Y. Population structure analysis and genome-wide association study of a hexaploid oat landrace and cultivar collection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1131751. [PMID: 37025134 PMCID: PMC10070682 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1131751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Oat (Avena sativa L.) is an important cereal crop grown worldwide for grain and forage, owing to its high adaptability to diverse environments. However, the genetic and genomics research of oat is lagging behind that of other staple cereal crops. METHODS In this study, a collection of 288 oat lines originating worldwide was evaluated using 2,213 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers obtained from an oat iSelect 6K-beadchip array to study its genetic diversity, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium (LD) as well as the genotype-phenotype association for hullessness and lemma color. RESULTS The average gene diversity and polymorphic information content (PIC) were 0.324 and 0.262, respectively. The first three principal components (PCs) accounted for 30.33% of the genetic variation, indicating that the population structure of this panel of oat lines was stronger than that reported in most previous studies. In addition, accessions could be classified into two subpopulations using a Bayesian clustering approach, and the clustering pattern of accessions was closely associated with their region of origin. Additionally, evaluation of LD decay using 2,143 mapped markers revealed that the intrachromosomal whole-genome LD decayed rapidly to a critical r2 value of 0.156 for marker pairs separated by a genetic distance of 1.41 cM. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) detected six significant associations with the hullessness trait. Four of these six markers were located on the Mrg21 linkage group between 194.0 and 205.7 cM, while the other two significant markers mapped to Mrg05 and Mrg09. Three significant SNPs, showing strong association with lemma color, were located on linkage groups Mrg17, Mrg18, and Mrg20. DISCUSSION Our results discerned relevant patterns of genetic diversity, population structure, and LD among members of a worldwide collection of oat landraces and cultivars proposed to be 'typical' of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. These results have important implications for further studies on association mapping and practical breeding in high-altitude oat.
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- Lei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
- Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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Konieczna W, Warchoł M, Mierek-Adamska A, Skrzypek E, Waligórski P, Piernik A, Dąbrowska GB. Changes in physio-biochemical parameters and expression of metallothioneins in Avena sativa L. in response to drought. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2486. [PMID: 36775830 PMCID: PMC9922688 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29394-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/13/2023] Open
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Drought is one of the major threats to food security. Among several mechanisms involved in plant stress tolerance, one protein family-the plant metallothioneins (MTs)-shows great promise for enhancing drought resistance. Plant metallothioneins in oat (Avena sativa L.) have not yet been deeply analysed, and the literature lacks a comprehensive study of the whole family of plant MTs in response to drought. In this study, we showed that the number and nature of cis-elements linked with stress response in promoters of AsMTs1-3 differed depending on the MT type. Drought stress in oat plants caused an increase in the expression of AsMT2 and AsMT3 and a decrease in the expression of AsMT1 compared to well-watered plants. Moreover, the low values of relative water content, water use efficiency, net photosynthesis (PN), transpiration (E), stomatal conductance (gs), chlorophyll a, and carotenoid were accompanied by high levels of electrolyte leakage, internal CO2 concentration (Ci) and abscisic acid content, and high activity of antioxidants enzymes in plants under drought stress. The present study puts forward the idea that AsMTs are crucial for oat response to drought stress not only by regulating antioxidant activity but also by changing the plant water regime and photosynthesis. Our results support the hypothesis that structural differences among types of plant MTs reflect their diversified physiological roles.
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- Wiktoria Konieczna
- Department of Genetics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wileńska 4, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Kraków, Poland
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Geobotany and Landscape Planning, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100, Toruń, Poland.
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Chromosomal Location of Pm12-A Novel Powdery Mildew Resistance Gene from Avena sterilis. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13122409. [PMID: 36553676 PMCID: PMC9778159 DOI: 10.3390/genes13122409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Identification of new, effective disease resistance genes is a very important aspect of plant breeding. Also important is the precise location of individual loci and tagging them with DNA markers for marker assisted selection. The aim of the present study was identification of the molecular markers linked with Pm12, a new effective resistance gene to powdery mildew, and their location in the oat genome. The analysis was performed on 167 F2 individuals from a hybrid of Fuchs × CN67383, with the status of the locus in each individual verified by progeny test in F3. Segregation ratios confirmed the monogenic nature of resistance. Making use of the sequence data of DNA markers and the oat OT3098 v2 genome reference assembly, Pm12 is located on chromosome 7C. A comparison was also made with the reference consensus map, to which there are more reports of mapped genes to date. The mapping results suggest that Pm12 is located in the interval 103.8-111.7 cM on this map. No powdery mildew resistance locus has been identified in this region so far, suggesting that Avena sterilis CN67383 carries a novel locus offering effective resistance in oat breeding. The information included in the oat genome annotation allowed for the identification of candidate genes in the close region of the marker cluster for Pm12. This information may provide an interesting source of further analysis of the pathways of various genes in response to the stress of powdery mildew infection.
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Park RF, Boshoff WHP, Cabral AL, Chong J, Martinelli JA, McMullen MS, Fetch JWM, Paczos-Grzęda E, Prats E, Roake J, Sowa S, Ziems L, Singh D. Breeding oat for resistance to the crown rust pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: achievements and prospects. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:3709-3734. [PMID: 35665827 PMCID: PMC9729147 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04121-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca), is a significant impediment to global oat production. Some 98 alleles at 92 loci conferring resistance to Pca in Avena have been designated; however, allelic relationships and chromosomal locations of many of these are unknown. Long-term monitoring of Pca in Australia, North America and elsewhere has shown that it is highly variable even in the absence of sexual recombination, likely due to large pathogen populations that cycle between wild oat communities and oat crops. Efforts to develop cultivars with genetic resistance to Pca began in the 1950s. Based almost solely on all all-stage resistance, this has had temporary benefits but very limited success. The inability to eradicate wild oats, and their common occurrence in many oat growing regions, means that future strategies to control Pca must be based on the assumption of a large and variable prevailing pathogen population with high evolutionary potential, even if cultivars with durable resistance are deployed and grown widely. The presence of minor gene, additive APR to Pca in hexaploid oat germplasm opens the possibility of pyramiding several such genes to give high levels of resistance. The recent availability of reference genomes for diploid and hexaploid oat will undoubtedly accelerate efforts to discover, characterise and develop high throughput diagnostic markers to introgress and pyramid resistance to Pca in high yielding adapted oat germplasm.
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- R F Park
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- Swift Current Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada
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- Department of Crop Science, Agronomy School, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 7712, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58105-5051, USA
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, Canada
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- CSIC-Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Avda. Menéndez Pidal s/n. , 14004, Córdoba, Spain
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Trevaskis B, Harris FAJ, Bovill WD, Rattey AR, Khoo KHP, Boden SA, Hyles J. Advancing understanding of oat phenology for crop adaptation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:955623. [PMID: 36311119 PMCID: PMC9614419 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.955623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Oat (Avena sativa) is an annual cereal grown for forage, fodder and grain. Seasonal flowering behaviour, or phenology, is a key contributor to the success of oat as a crop. As a species, oat is a vernalization-responsive long-day plant that flowers after winter as days lengthen in spring. Variation in both vernalization and daylength requirements broadens adaptation of oat and has been used to breed modern cultivars with seasonal flowering behaviours suited to different regions, sowing dates and farming practices. This review examines the importance of variation in oat phenology for crop adaptation. Strategies to advance understanding of the genetic basis of oat phenology are then outlined. These include the potential to transfer knowledge from related temperate cereals, particularly wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare), to provide insights into the potential molecular basis of variation in oat phenology. Approaches that use emerging genomic resources to directly investigate the molecular basis of oat phenology are also described, including application of high-resolution genome-wide diversity surveys to map genes linked to variation in flowering behaviour. The need to resolve the contribution of individual phenology genes to crop performance by developing oat genetic resources, such as near-isogenic lines, is emphasised. Finally, ways that deeper knowledge of oat phenology can be applied to breed improved varieties and to inform on-farm decision-making are outlined.
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- Ben Trevaskis
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food Business Unit, Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Pine Gully Road, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food Business Unit, Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, Faculty of Sciences, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Urrbrae, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, Faculty of Sciences, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Urrbrae, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food Business Unit, Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Nazareno ES, Fiedler J, Miller ME, Figueroa M, Kianian SF. A reference-anchored oat linkage map reveals quantitative trait loci conferring adult plant resistance to crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:3307-3321. [PMID: 36029319 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04128-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We mapped three adult plant resistance (APR) loci on oat chromosomes 4D and 6C and developed flanking KASP/PACE markers for marker-assisted selection and gene pyramiding. Using sequence orthology search and the available oat genomic and transcriptomic data, we surveyed these genomic regions for genes that may control disease resistance. Sources of durable disease resistance are needed to minimize yield losses in cultivated oat caused by crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae). In this study, we developed five oat recombinant inbred line mapping populations to identify sources of adult plant resistance from crosses between five APR donors and Otana, a susceptible variety. The preliminary bulk segregant mapping based on allele frequencies showed two regions in linkage group Mrg21 (Chr4D) that are associated with the APR phenotype in all five populations. Six markers from these regions in Chr4D were converted to high-throughput allele specific PCR assays and were used to genotype all individuals in each population. Simple interval mapping showed two peaks in Chr4D, named QPc.APR-4D.1 and QPc.APR-4D.2, which were detected in the OtanaA/CI4706-2 and OtanaA/CI9416-2 and in the Otana/PI189733, OtanaD/PI260616, and OtanaA/CI8000-4 populations, respectively. These results were validated by mapping two entire populations, Otana/PI189733 and OtanaA/CI9416, genotyped using Illumina HiSeq, in which polymorphisms were called against the OT3098 oat reference genome. Composite interval mapping results confirmed the presence of the two quantitative trait loci (QTL) located on oat chromosome 4D and an additional QTL with a smaller effect located on chromosome 6C. This mapping approach also narrowed down the physical intervals to between 5 and 19 Mb, and indicated that QPc.APR-4D.1, QPc.APR-4D.2, and QPc.APR-6C explained 43.4%, 38.5%, and 21.5% of the phenotypic variation, respectively. In a survey of the gene content of each QTL, several clusters of disease resistance genes that may contribute to APR were found. The allele specific PCR markers developed for these QTL regions would be beneficial for marker-assisted breeding, gene pyramiding, and future cloning of resistance genes from oat.
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- Eric S Nazareno
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
- Pairwise Plants, LLC. 807 East Main Street, Suite 4-100, Durham, NC, USA
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, USA.
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Carlson CH, Fiedler JD, Naraghi SM, Nazareno ES, Ardayfio NK, McMullen MS, Kianian SF. Archetypes of inflorescence: genome-wide association networks of panicle morphometric, growth, and disease variables in a multiparent oat population. Genetics 2022; 223:6700642. [PMID: 36106985 PMCID: PMC9910404 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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There is limited information regarding the morphometric relationships of panicle traits in oat (Avena sativa) and their contribution to phenology and growth, physiology, and pathology traits important for yield. To model panicle growth and development and identify genomic regions associated with corresponding traits, 10 diverse spring oat mapping populations (n = 2,993) were evaluated in the field and 9 genotyped via genotyping-by-sequencing. Representative panicles from all progeny individuals, parents, and check lines were scanned, and images were analyzed using manual and automated techniques, resulting in over 60 unique panicle, rachis, and spikelet variables. Spatial modeling and days to heading were used to account for environmental and phenological variances, respectively. Panicle variables were intercorrelated, providing reproducible archetypal and growth models. Notably, adult plant resistance for oat crown rust was most prominent for taller, stiff stalked plants having a more open panicle structure. Within and among family variance for panicle traits reflected the moderate-to-high heritability and mutual genome-wide associations (hotspots) with numerous high-effect loci. Candidate genes and potential breeding applications are discussed. This work adds to the growing genetic resources for oat and provides a unique perspective on the genetic basis of panicle architecture in cereal crops.
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- Craig H Carlson
- Corresponding author: Cereal Crops Research Unit, Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA.
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- Cereal Crops Research Unit, Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
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Sowa S, Sozoniuk M, Toporowska J, Kowalczyk K, Paczos-Grzęda E. Validation of reference genes as an internal control for studying Avena sativa-Puccinia coronata interaction by RT-qPCR. Sci Rep 2022; 12:14601. [PMID: 36028746 PMCID: PMC9418433 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-18746-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In this study we evaluated eleven candidate reference genes in Avena sativa during compatible and incompatible interactions with two different pathotypes of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae in six time points post-inoculation. The identification of genes with high expression stability was performed by four algorithms (geNorm, NormFinder, BestKeeper and ΔCt method). The results obtained confirmed that the combination of two genes would be sufficient for reliable normalization of the expression data. In general, the most stable in the tested plant-pathogen system were HNR (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein 27C) and EF1A (elongation factor 1-alpha). ARF (ADP-ribosylation factor) and EIF4A (eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-3) could also be considered as exhibiting high expression stability. CYP (cyclophilin) was shown by all assessment methods to be the worst candidate for normalization in this dataset. To date, this is the first report of reference genes selection in A. sativa–P. coronata interaction system. Identified reference genes enable reliable and comprehensive RT-qPCR analysis of oat gene expression in response to crown rust infection. Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the host–pathogen interactions may expand knowledge of durable resistance strategies beneficial to modern oat breeding.
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- Sylwia Sowa
- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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Genome origin and evolution of common oat. Nat Genet 2022; 54:1074-1075. [PMID: 35879414 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01133-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Admassu-Yimer B, Klos KE, Griffiths I, Cowan A, Howarth C. Mapping of Crown Rust ( Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae) Resistance Gene Pc54 and a Novel Quantitative Trait Locus Effective Against Powdery Mildew ( Blumeria graminis f. sp. avenae) in the Oat ( Avena sativa) Line Pc54. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2022; 112:1316-1322. [PMID: 34982574 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-10-21-0445-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The Pc54 oat line carries the crown rust resistance gene Pc54 and an unknown gene effective against powdery mildew. In this study, two recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations were developed to identify the genomic locations of the two genes and produce lists of molecular markers with a potential for marker-assisted selection. The RILs and parents were phenotyped for crown rust and powdery mildew in a controlled environment. They were also genotyped using the 6K Illumina Infinium iSelect oat single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip. Multiple interval mapping placed Pc54 on the linkage group Mrg02 (chromosome 7D) and the novel powdery mildew quantitative trait locus (QTL) QPm.18 on Mrg18 (chromosome 1A) both in mapping and in the validating populations. A total of 9 and 31 significant molecular markers were identified linked with the Pc54 gene and QPm.18, respectively. Reactions to crown rust inoculations have justified separate identities of Pc54 from other genes and QTLs that have previously been reported on Mrg02 except for qPCRFd. Pm3 is the only powdery mildew resistance gene previously mapped on Mrg18. However, the pm3 differential line, Mostyn, was susceptible to the powdery mildew race used in this study, suggesting that Pm3 and QPm.18 are different genes. Determining the chromosomal locations of Pc54 and QPm.18 is helpful for better understanding of the molecular mechanism of resistance to crown rust and powdery mildew in oats. Furthermore, SNPs and single sequence repeats that are closely linked with the genes could be valuable for developing PCR-based molecular markers and facilitating the utilization of these genes in oat breeding programs.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Belayneh Admassu-Yimer
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Research Participant, Agricultural Research Service, Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research, Aberdeen, ID 83210, U.S.A
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research, Aberdeen, ID 83210, U.S.A
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom
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Kamal N, Tsardakas Renhuldt N, Bentzer J, Gundlach H, Haberer G, Juhász A, Lux T, Bose U, Tye-Din JA, Lang D, van Gessel N, Reski R, Fu YB, Spégel P, Ceplitis A, Himmelbach A, Waters AJ, Bekele WA, Colgrave ML, Hansson M, Stein N, Mayer KFX, Jellen EN, Maughan PJ, Tinker NA, Mascher M, Olsson O, Spannagl M, Sirijovski N. The mosaic oat genome gives insights into a uniquely healthy cereal crop. Nature 2022; 606:113-119. [PMID: 35585233 PMCID: PMC9159951 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04732-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.) is an allohexaploid (AACCDD, 2n = 6x = 42) thought to have been domesticated more than 3,000 years ago while growing as a weed in wheat, emmer and barley fields in Anatolia1,2. Oat has a low carbon footprint, substantial health benefits and the potential to replace animal-based food products. However, the lack of a fully annotated reference genome has hampered efforts to deconvolute its complex evolutionary history and functional gene dynamics. Here we present a high-quality reference genome of A. sativa and close relatives of its diploid (Avena longiglumis, AA, 2n = 14) and tetraploid (Avena insularis, CCDD, 2n = 4x = 28) progenitors. We reveal the mosaic structure of the oat genome, trace large-scale genomic reorganizations in the polyploidization history of oat and illustrate a breeding barrier associated with the genome architecture of oat. We showcase detailed analyses of gene families implicated in human health and nutrition, which adds to the evidence supporting oat safety in gluten-free diets, and we perform mapping-by-sequencing of an agronomic trait related to water-use efficiency. This resource for the Avena genus will help to leverage knowledge from other cereal genomes, improve understanding of basic oat biology and accelerate genomics-assisted breeding and reanalysis of quantitative trait studies. Assembly of the hexaploid oat genome and its diploid and tetraploid relatives clarifies the evolutionary history of oat and allows mapping of genes for agronomic traits.
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- Nadia Kamal
- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- ScanOats Industrial Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- ScanOats Industrial Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.,Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.,Department of Microbial Genomics and Bioforensics, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany
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- Research and Development Division, PepsiCo, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.,Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany.,Department of Crop Sciences, Center of Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.,School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- CropTailor AB, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.
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- ScanOats Industrial Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. .,CropTailor AB, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. .,Food Science Organisation, Oatly AB, Lund, Sweden.
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Tinker NA, Wight CP, Bekele WA, Yan W, Jellen EN, Renhuldt NT, Sirijovski N, Lux T, Spannagl M, Mascher M. Genome analysis in Avena sativa reveals hidden breeding barriers and opportunities for oat improvement. Commun Biol 2022; 5:474. [PMID: 35585176 PMCID: PMC9117302 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03256-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Oat (Avena sativa L.) is an important and nutritious cereal crop, and there is a growing need to identify genes that contribute to improved oat varieties. Here we utilize a newly sequenced and annotated oat reference genome to locate and characterize quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting agronomic and grain-quality traits in five oat populations. We find strong and significant associations between the positions of candidate genes and QTL that affect heading date, as well as those that influence the concentrations of oil and β-glucan in the grain. We examine genome-wide recombination profiles to confirm the presence of a large, unbalanced translocation from chromosome 1 C to 1 A, and a possible inversion on chromosome 7D. Such chromosome rearrangements appear to be common in oat, where they cause pseudo-linkage and recombination suppression, affecting the segregation, localization, and deployment of QTLs in breeding programs. Tinker et al. identified the position and effects of major QTLs relative to a new fully annotated reference genome in five recombinant inbred line populations representing nine diverse oat (Avena sativa) varieties. They also characterized two major chromosome rearrangements that may impact breeding targets affected by QTL that are located in these regions.
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- Nicholas A Tinker
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Bldg., Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, K1A 0C6, ON, Canada.
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Bldg., Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, K1A 0C6, ON, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Bldg., Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, K1A 0C6, ON, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Bldg., Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, K1A 0C6, ON, Canada
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4105 LSB, Provo, 84602, Utah, USA
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- Lund University, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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- Lund University, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.,CropTailor AB, c/o Lund University, Department of Chemistry, Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.,Oatly AB, Food Science, Scheelevägen 19, 223 63, Lund, Sweden
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- Helmholtz Center Munich - Research Center for Environmental Health, Plant Genome and Systems Biology (PGSB), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Center Munich - Research Center for Environmental Health, Plant Genome and Systems Biology (PGSB), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Domestication Genomics, Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Seeland, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, Leipzig, Germany
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Rio S, Gallego-Sánchez L, Montilla-Bascón G, Canales FJ, Isidro Y Sánchez J, Prats E. Genomic prediction and training set optimization in a structured Mediterranean oat population. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:3595-3609. [PMID: 34341832 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03916-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The strong genetic structure observed in Mediterranean oats affects the predictive ability of genomic prediction as well as the performance of training set optimization methods. In this study, we investigated the efficiency of genomic prediction and training set optimization in a highly structured population of cultivars and landraces of cultivated oat (Avena sativa) from the Mediterranean basin, including white (subsp. sativa) and red (subsp. byzantina) oats, genotyped using genotype-by-sequencing markers and evaluated for agronomic traits in Southern Spain. For most traits, the predictive abilities were moderate to high with little differences between models, except for biomass for which Bayes-B showed a substantial gain compared to other models. The consistency between the structure of the training population and the population to be predicted was key to the predictive ability of genomic predictions. The predictive ability of inter-subspecies predictions was indeed much lower than that of intra-subspecies predictions for all traits. Regarding training set optimization, the linear mixed model optimization criteria (prediction error variance (PEVmean) and coefficient of determination (CDmean)) performed better than the heuristic approach "partitioning around medoids," even under high population structure. The superiority of CDmean and PEVmean could be explained by their ability to adapt the representation of each genetic group according to those represented in the population to be predicted. These results represent an important step towards the implementation of genomic prediction in oat breeding programs and address important issues faced by the genomic prediction community regarding population structure and training set optimization.
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- Simon Rio
- Centro de Biotecnologia y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Campus de Montegancedo-UPM, 28223, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Centro de Biotecnologia y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Campus de Montegancedo-UPM, 28223, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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Esvelt Klos K, Yimer BA, Howarth CJ, McMullen MS, Sorrells ME, Tinker NA, Yan W, Beattie AD. The Genetic Architecture of Milling Quality in Spring Oat Lines of the Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise. Foods 2021; 10:foods10102479. [PMID: 34681528 PMCID: PMC8535619 DOI: 10.3390/foods10102479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Most oat grains destined for human consumption must possess the ability to pass through an industrial de-hulling process with minimal breakage and waste. Uniform grain size and a high groat to hull ratio are desirable traits related to milling performance. The purpose of this study was to characterize the genetic architecture of traits related to milling quality by identifying quantitative trait loci (QTL) contributing to variation among a diverse collection of elite and foundational spring oat lines important to North American oat breeding programs. A total of 501 lines from the Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise (CORE) panel were evaluated for genome-wide association with 6 key milling traits. Traits were evaluated in 13 location years. Associations for 36,315 markers were evaluated for trait means across and within location years, as well as trait variance across location years, which was used to assess trait stability. Fifty-seven QTL influencing one or more of the milling quality related traits were identified, with fourteen QTL mapped influencing mean and variance across location years. The most prominent QTL was Qkernel.CORE.4D on chromosome 4D at approximately 212 cM, which influenced the mean levels of all traits. QTL were identified that influenced trait variance but not mean, trait mean only and both.
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- Kathy Esvelt Klos
- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1691 South 2700 West, Aberdeen, ID 83210, USA
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho Research and Extension, Idaho Falls, ID 83210, USA;
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, UK;
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108, USA;
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, 240 Emerson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;
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- Agriculture and AgriFoods Canada (AAFC), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Ace., Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada; (N.A.T.); (W.Y.)
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- Agriculture and AgriFoods Canada (AAFC), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Ace., Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada; (N.A.T.); (W.Y.)
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- Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada;
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Fominaya A, Loarce Y, González JM, Ferrer E. Cytogenetic evidence supports Avena insularis being closely related to hexaploid oats. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0257100. [PMID: 34653181 PMCID: PMC8519437 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Cytogenetic observations, phylogenetic studies and genome analysis using high-density genetic markers have suggested a tetraploid Avena species carrying the C and D genomes (formerly C and A) to be the donor of all hexaploid oats (AACCDD). However, controversy surrounds which of the three extant CCDD tetraploid species—A. insularis, A. magna and A. murphyi—is most closely related to hexaploid oats. The present work describes a comparative karyotype analysis of these three CCDD tetraploid species and two hexaploid species, A. sativa and A. byzantina. This involved the use of FISH with six simple sequence repeats (SSRs) with the motifs CT, AAC, AAG, ACG, ATC and ACT, two repeated ribosomal sequences, and C genome-specific repetitive DNA. The hybridization pattern of A. insularis with oligonucleotide (AC)10 was also determined and compared with those previously published for A. sativa and A. byzantina. Significant differences in the 5S sites and SSR hybridization patterns of A. murphyi compared to the other CCDD species rule out its being directly involved in the origin of the hexaploids. In contrast, the repetitive and SSR hybridization patterns shown by the D genome chromosomes, and by most of the C genome chromosomes of A. magna and A. insularis, can be equated with the corresponding chromosomes of the hexaploids. Several chromosome hybridization signals seen for A. insularis, but not for A. magna, were shared with the hexaploid oats species, especially with A. byzantina. These diagnostic signals add weight to the idea that the extant A. insularis, or a direct ancestor of it, is the most closely related progenitor of hexaploid oats. The similarity of the chromosome hybridization patterns of the hexaploids and CCDD tetraploids was taken as being indicative of homology. A common chromosome nomenclature for CCDD species based on that of the hexaploid species is proposed.
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- Araceli Fominaya
- Department of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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Loskutov IG, Gnutikov AA, Blinova EV, Rodionov AV. The Origin and Resource Potential of Wild and Cultivated Species of the Genus of Oats (Avena L.). RUSS J GENET+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795421060065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yan H, Yu K, Xu Y, Zhou P, Zhao J, Li Y, Liu X, Ren C, Peng Y. Position Validation of the Dwarfing Gene Dw6 in Oat ( Avena sativa L.) and Its Correlated Effects on Agronomic Traits. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:668847. [PMID: 34093626 PMCID: PMC8172587 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.668847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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An F6 : 8 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population derived from the cross between WAOAT2132 (Dw6) and Caracas along with the two parents were used to evaluate the genetic effects of Dw6 dwarfing gene on plant height and other agronomic traits in oat (Avena sativa L.) across three environments, and develop closely linked markers for marker-assisted selection (MAS) for Dw6. The two parents differed in all investigated agronomic traits except for the number of whorls. The RIL lines showed a bimodal distribution for plant height in all three tested environments, supporting the height of this population was controlled by a single gene. Dw6 significantly reduced plant height (37.66∼44.29%) and panicle length (13.99∼22.10%) but without compromising the coleoptile length which was often positively associated with the reduced stature caused by dwarfing genes. Dw6 has also strong negative effects on hundred kernel weight (14.00∼29.55%), and kernel length (4.21∼9.47%), whereas the effects of Dw6 on the kernel width were not uniform across three environments. By contrast, lines with Dw6 produced more productive tillers (10.11∼10.53%) than lines without Dw6. All these together suggested the potential yield penalty associated with Dw6 might be partially due to the decrease of kernel weight which is attributed largely to the reduction of kernel length. Eighty-one simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer pairs from chromosome 6D were tested, five of them were polymorphic in two parents and in two contrasting bulks, confirming the 6D location of Dw6. By using the five polymorphic markers, Dw6 was mapped to an interval of 1.0 cM flanked by markers SSR83 and SSR120. Caution should be applied in using this information since maker order conflicts were observed. The close linkages of these two markers to Dw6 were further validated in a range of oat lines. The newly developed markers will provide a solid basis for future efforts both in the identification of Dw6 in oat germplasm and in the determination of the nature of the gene through positional cloning.
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- Honghai Yan
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Baicheng, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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Jiang W, Jiang C, Yuan W, Zhang M, Fang Z, Li Y, Li G, Jia J, Yang Z. A universal karyotypic system for hexaploid and diploid Avena species brings oat cytogenetics into the genomics era. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 21:213. [PMID: 33980176 PMCID: PMC8114715 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-02999-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The identification of chromosomes among Avena species have been studied by C-banding and in situ hybridization. However, the complicated results from several cytogenetic nomenclatures for identifying oat chromosomes are often contradictory. A universal karyotyping nomenclature system for precise chromosome identification and comparative evolutionary studies would be essential for genus Avena based on the recently released genome sequences of hexaploid and diploid Avena species. RESULTS Tandem repetitive sequences were predicted and physically located on chromosomal regions of the released Avena sativa OT3098 genome assembly v1. Eight new oligonucleotide (oligo) probes for sequential fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were designed and then applied for chromosome karyotyping on mitotic metaphase spreads of A. brevis, A. nuda, A. wiestii, A. ventricosa, A. fatua, and A. sativa species. We established a high-resolution standard karyotype of A. sativa based on the distinct FISH signals of multiple oligo probes. FISH painting with bulked oligos, based on wheat-barley collinear regions, was used to validate the linkage group assignment for individual A. sativa chromosomes. We integrated our new Oligo-FISH based karyotype system with earlier karyotype nomenclatures through sequential C-banding and FISH methods, then subsequently determined the precise breakage points of some chromosome translocations in A. sativa. CONCLUSIONS This new universal chromosome identification system will be a powerful tool for describing the genetic diversity, chromosomal rearrangements and evolutionary relationships among Avena species by comparative cytogenetic and genomic approaches.
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- Wenxi Jiang
- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, 030801, Taigu, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, 030801, Taigu, China.
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, China.
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Huang CT, Klos KE, Huang YF. Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals the Genetic Architecture of Seed Vigor in Oats. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2020; 10:4489-4503. [PMID: 33028627 PMCID: PMC7718755 DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Seed vigor is crucial for crop early establishment in the field and is particularly important for forage crop production. Oat (Avena sativa L.) is a nutritious food crop and also a valuable forage crop. However, little is known about the genetics of seed vigor in oats. To investigate seed vigor-related traits and their genetic architecture in oats, we developed an easy-to-implement image-based phenotyping pipeline and applied it to 650 elite oat lines from the Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise (CORE). Root number, root surface area, and shoot length were measured in two replicates. Variables such as growth rate were derived. Using a genome-wide association (GWA) approach, we identified 34 and 16 unique loci associated with root traits and shoot traits, respectively, which corresponded to 41 and 16 unique SNPs at a false discovery rate < 0.1. Nine root-associated loci were organized into four sets of homeologous regions, while nine shoot-associated loci were organized into three sets of homeologous regions. The context sequences of five trait-associated markers matched to the sequences of rice, Brachypodium and maize (E-value < 10-10), including three markers matched to known gene models with potential involvement in seed vigor. These were a glucuronosyltransferase, a mitochondrial carrier protein domain containing protein, and an iron-sulfur cluster protein. This study presents the first GWA study on oat seed vigor and data of this study can provide guidelines and foundation for further investigations.
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- Ching-Ting Huang
- Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research, USDA, ARS, Aberdeen, ID 83210
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- Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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Miller ME, Nazareno ES, Rottschaefer SM, Riddle J, Dos Santos Pereira D, Li F, Nguyen-Phuc H, Henningsen EC, Persoons A, Saunders DGO, Stukenbrock E, Dodds PN, Kianian SF, Figueroa M. Increased virulence of Puccinia coronata f. sp.avenae populations through allele frequency changes at multiple putative Avr loci. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1009291. [PMID: 33370783 PMCID: PMC7793281 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Pathogen populations are expected to evolve virulence traits in response to resistance deployed in agricultural settings. However, few temporal datasets have been available to characterize this process at the population level. Here, we examined two temporally separated populations of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca), which causes crown rust disease in oat (Avena sativa) sampled from 1990 to 2015. We show that a substantial increase in virulence occurred from 1990 to 2015 and this was associated with a genetic differentiation between populations detected by genome-wide sequencing. We found strong evidence for genetic recombination in these populations, showing the importance of the alternate host in generating genotypic variation through sexual reproduction. However, asexual expansion of some clonal lineages was also observed within years. Genome-wide association analysis identified seven Avr loci associated with virulence towards fifteen Pc resistance genes in oat and suggests that some groups of Pc genes recognize the same pathogen effectors. The temporal shift in virulence patterns in the Pca populations between 1990 and 2015 is associated with changes in allele frequency in these genomic regions. Nucleotide diversity patterns at a single Avr locus corresponding to Pc38, Pc39, Pc55, Pc63, Pc70, and Pc71 showed evidence of a selective sweep associated with the shift to virulence towards these resistance genes in all 2015 collected isolates.
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- Marisa E. Miller
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Environmental Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany
- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel Germany
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- INRA/Universite de Lorraine Interactions Abres/Microorganismes, Champenoux, France
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- Environmental Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany
- Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel Germany
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia
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Kebede AZ, Bekele WA, Mitchell Fetch JW, Beattie AD, Chao S, Tinker NA, Fetch TG, McCartney CA. Localization of the Stem Rust Resistance Gene Pg2 to Linkage Group Mrg20 in Cultivated Oat ( Avena sativa). PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2020; 110:1721-1726. [PMID: 32915112 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-03-20-0076-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Stem rust is an important disease of cultivated oat (Avena sativa) caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae. In North America, host resistance is the primary strategy to control this disease and is conferred by a relatively small number of resistance genes. Pg2 is a widely deployed stem rust resistance gene that originates from cultivated oat. Oat breeders wish to develop cultivars with multiple Pg genes to slow the breakdown of single gene resistance, and often require DNA markers suited for marker-assisted selection. Our objectives were to (i) construct high density linkage maps for a major oat stem rust resistance gene using three biparental mapping populations, (ii) develop Kompetitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) assays for Pg2-linked single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and (iii) test the prediction accuracy of those markers with a diverse panel of spring oat lines and cultivars. Genotyping-by-sequencing SNP markers linked to Pg2 were identified in an AC Morgan/CDC Morrison recombinant inbred line (RIL) population. Pg2-linked SNPs were then analyzed in an AC Morgan/RL815 F2 population and an AC Morgan/CDC Dancer RIL population. Linkage analysis identified a common location for Pg2 in all three populations on linkage group Mrg20 of the oat consensus genetic map. The most predictive markers were identified and converted to KASP assays for use in oat breeding programs. When used in combination, the KASP assays for the SNP loci avgbs2_126549.1.46 and avgbs_cluster_23819.1.27 were highly predictive of Pg2 status in panel of 54 oat breeding lines and cultivars.
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- Aida Z Kebede
- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, MB R6M 1Y5, Canada
- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, MB R7C 1A1, Canada
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- Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada
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- Cereal Crops Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, ND 58102-2765, U.S.A
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, MB R7C 1A1, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, MB R6M 1Y5, Canada
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Isidro-Sánchez J, D'Arcy Cusack K, Verheecke-Vaessen C, Kahla A, Bekele W, Doohan F, Magan N, Medina A. Genome-wide association mapping of Fusarium langsethiae infection and mycotoxin accumulation in oat (Avena sativa L.). THE PLANT GENOME 2020; 13:e20023. [PMID: 33016604 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Fusarium langsethiae is a symptomless pathogen of oat panicles that produces T-2 and HT-2 mycotoxins, two of the most potent trichothecenes produced by Fusarium fungi in cereals. In the last few years, the levels of these mycotoxin in oat grain has increased and the European commission have already recommended a maximum level for of 1000 μg kg-1 for unprocessed oat for human consumption. The optimal and most sustainable way of combating infection and mycotoxin contamination is by releasing resistant oat varieties. Here the objective was to determine if we could identify any genomic loci associated with either the accumulation of F. langsethiae DNA or mycotoxins in the grain. In each of two years, field trials were conducted wherein 190 spring oat varieties were inoculated with a mixture of three isolate of the pathogen. Mycotoxins were quantified using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Varieties were genotyped using 16,863 genotyping by sequencing markers. Genome-wide association studies associated 5 SNPs in the linkage group Mr06 with T-2 + HT-2 mycotoxin accumulation. Markers were highly correlated, and a single QTL was identified. The marker avgbs_6K_95238.1 mapped within genes showing similarity to lipase, lipase-like or lipase precursor mRNA sequences and zinc-finger proteins. These regions have previously been shown to confer a significant increase in resistance to Fusarium species.
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- Julio Isidro-Sánchez
- UCD Agriculture & Food Science, College of Health and Agriculture Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Campus de Montegancedo-UPM, 28223-Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), Spain
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- UCD Agriculture & Food Science, College of Health and Agriculture Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
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- Applied Mycology Group, Environment and AgriFood Theme, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
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- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science and Earth Institute, College of Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
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- Ottawa Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science and Earth Institute, College of Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
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- Applied Mycology Group, Environment and AgriFood Theme, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
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- Applied Mycology Group, Environment and AgriFood Theme, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
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Zhao J, Kebede AZ, Bekele WA, Menzies JG, Chong J, Mitchell Fetch JW, Tinker NA, Beattie AD, Peng YY, McCartney CA. Mapping of the Oat Crown Rust Resistance Gene Pc39 Relative to Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers. PLANT DISEASE 2020; 104:1507-1513. [PMID: 32150502 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-09-19-2002-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae Eriks. (Pca), is among the most important oat diseases resulting in significant yield losses in many growing regions. A gene-for-gene interaction is well established in this pathosystem and has been exploited by oat breeders to control crown rust. Pc39 is a seedling crown rust resistance gene that has been widely deployed in North American oat breeding. DNA markers are desired to accurately predict the specific Pc genes present in breeding germplasm. The objectives of the study were as follows: (i) to map Pc39 in two recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations (AC Assiniboia/MN841801 and AC Medallion/MN841801) and (ii) to identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for postulation of Pc39 in oat germplasm. Pc39 was mapped to a linkage group consisting of 16 SNP markers, which placed the gene on linkage group Mrg11 (chromosome 1C) of the oat consensus map. Pc39 cosegregated with SNP marker GMI_ES01_c12570_390 in the AC Assiniboia/MN841801 RIL population and was flanked by the SNP markers avgbs_126086.1.41 and GMI_ES15_c276_702, with genetic distances of 1.7 and 0.3 cM, respectively. In the AC Medallion/MN841801 RIL population, similar results were obtained but the genetic distances of the flanking markers were 0.4 and 0.4 cM, respectively. Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR assays were successfully designed for Pc39-linked SNP loci. Two SNP loci defined a haplotype that accurately predicted Pc39 status in a diverse panel of oat germplasm and will be useful for marker-assisted selection in oat breeding.
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- Jun Zhao
- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Manitoba, Canada
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Sowa S, Paczos-Grzęda E. Identification of molecular markers for the Pc39 gene conferring resistance to crown rust in oat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:1081-1094. [PMID: 31927607 PMCID: PMC7064627 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-020-03533-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Six new PCR-based markers for the Pc39 crown rust resistance gene in Avena sativa L. were developed. Pc39 was mapped to Mrg11 of the oat consensus map using BLASTn analysis. The aim of this study was the identification of molecular markers for the Pc39 gene in cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.). Pc39 is a major race-specific crown rust resistance gene originally found in an Israeli accession of the wild hexaploid Avena sterilis. The effectiveness of this gene in Europe has decreased in recent years, but is still relatively high and breeding programs would benefit from the availability of molecular markers to aid in its mapping and deployment. The complexity of the oat genome poses a significant obstacle to genetic research. No oat rust resistance genes have yet been cloned, and even the number of relevant molecular markers is very limited. Here, genotyping of a segregating population derived from a cross 'Celer' (Pc39)/STH9210 (susceptible) was conducted using RAPD- and SRAP-PCR-based methods, as well as microarray-based DArT™ and next-generation sequencing DArTseq™ techniques. Markers associated with Pc39 were placed on the hexaploid oat consensus linkage group Mrg11 at 3.7-6.7 cM. Six new PCR-based markers were developed to allow identification of the resistant Pc39 allele. These tightly linked markers will be useful in marker-assisted selection, with the closest, SCAR_3456624, being within 0.37 cM of Pc39. The newly developed markers could find applications in the fine mapping or positional cloning of this gene. Moreover, easy-to-use PCR-based markers linked to Pc39 could facilitate the utilization of this gene in oat breeding programs, especially as a component of crown rust resistance gene pyramids.
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- Sylwia Sowa
- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
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Zhao J, Kebede AZ, Menzies JG, Paczos-Grzęda E, Chong J, Mitchell Fetch JW, Beattie AD, Peng YY, McCartney CA. Chromosomal location of the crown rust resistance gene Pc98 in cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:1109-1122. [PMID: 31938813 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-020-03535-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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SNP loci linked to the crown rust resistance gene Pc98 were identified by linkage analysis and KASP assays were developed for marker-assisted selection in breeding programs. Crown rust is among the most damaging diseases of oat and is caused by Puccinia coronata var. avenae f. sp. avenae (Urban and Marková) (Pca). Host resistance is the preferred method to prevent crown rust epidemics. Pc98 is a race-specific, seedling crown rust resistance gene obtained from the wild oat Avena sterilis accession CAV 1979 that is effective at all growth stages of oat. Virulence to Pc98 has been very low in the Pca populations that have been tested. The objectives of this study were to develop SNP markers linked to Pc98 for use in marker-assisted selection and to locate Pc98 on the oat consensus map. The Pc98 gene was mapped using F2:3 populations developed from the crosses Pc98/Bingo and Pc98/Kasztan, where Pc98 is a single-gene line carrying Pc98. Both populations were evaluated in seedling inoculation experiments. Pc98 was mapped relative to Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR SNP markers in both populations, placing Pc98 on the Mrg20 linkage group of the consensus map. Pc98 was bracketed by two SNP markers GMI_ES22_c3052_382_kom399 and GMI_ES14_lrc18344_662_kom398 in the Pc98/Bingo mapping population with genetic distances of 0.9 cM and 0.3 cM, respectively. Pc98 co-segregated with four SNP markers in the Pc98/Kasztan population, and the closest flanking markers were GMI_DS_LB_6017_kom367 and avgbs2_153634.1.59_kom410 with genetic distances of 0.7 cM and 0.3 cM, respectively. Two SNP loci defined a haplotype that accurately predicted Pc98 status in a diverse group of oat germplasm, which will be valuable for marker-assisted selection of Pc98 in breeding of new oat cultivars.
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- Jun Zhao
- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, Canada.
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Mellers G, Mackay I, Cowan S, Griffiths I, Martinez‐Martin P, Poland JA, Bekele W, Tinker NA, Bentley AR, Howarth CJ. Implementing within-cross genomic prediction to reduce oat breeding costs. THE PLANT GENOME 2020; 13:e20004. [PMID: 33016630 PMCID: PMC8638661 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A barrier to the adoption of genomic prediction in small breeding programs is the initial cost of genotyping material. Although decreasing, marker costs are usually higher than field trial costs. In this study we demonstrate the utility of stratifying a narrow-base biparental oat population genotyped with a modest number of markers to employ genomic prediction at early and later generations. We also show that early generation genotyping data can reduce the number of lines for later phenotyping based on selections of siblings to progress. Using sets of small families selected at an early generation could enable the use of genomic prediction for adaptation to multiple target environments at an early stage in the breeding program. In addition, we demonstrate that mixed marker data can be effectively integrated to combine cheap dominant marker data (including legacy data) with more expensive but higher density codominant marker data in order to make within generation and between lineage predictions based on genotypic information. Taken together, our results indicate that small programs can test and initiate genomic predictions using sets of stratified, narrow-base populations and incorporating low density legacy genotyping data. This can then be scaled to include higher density markers and a broadened population base.
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- Greg Mellers
- The John Bingham LaboratoryNIABCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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- IMplant Consultancy Ltd.ChelmsfordUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Plas GogerddanAberystwyth UniversityAberystwythUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Plas GogerddanAberystwyth UniversityAberystwythUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Plas GogerddanAberystwyth UniversityAberystwythUnited Kingdom
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant PathologyKansas State UniversityManhattanKSUSA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaOttawaCanada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaOttawaCanada
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Plas GogerddanAberystwyth UniversityAberystwythUnited Kingdom
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McNish IG, Zimmer CM, Susko AQ, Heuschele DJ, Tiede T, Case AJ, Smith KP. Mapping crown rust resistance at multiple time points in elite oat germplasm. THE PLANT GENOME 2020; 13:e20007. [PMID: 33016637 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Crown rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae Erikss., is the most important disease impacting cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.). Genetic resistance is the most desirable management strategy. The genetic architecture of crown rust resistance is not fully understood, and previous mapping investigations have mostly ignored temporal variation. A collection of elite oat lines sourced from oat breeding programs in the American Upper Midwest and Canada was genotyped using a high-density genotyping-by-sequencing system and evaluated for crown rust disease severity at multiple time points throughout the growing season in three disease nursery environments. Genome-wide association mapping was conducted for disease severity on each observation date of each trial, area under the disease progress curve for each trial, heading date for each trial, and area under the disease progress curve in a multi-environment model. Crown rust resistance quantitative trait loci (QTL) were detected on linkage groups Mrg05, Mrg12, Mrg15, Mrg18, Mrg20, and Mrg33. None of these QTL were coincident with a days-to-heading QTL detected on Mrg02. Only the QTL detected on Mrg15 was detected in multiple mapping models. The QTL on Mrg05, Mrg12, Mrg18, Mrg20, and Mrg33 were detected on only a single observation date and were not detected on observations just days before and after. This result uncovers the importance of temporal variation in mapping experiments which is usually ignored. It is possible that high density temporal data could be used to more precisely characterize the nature of plant resistance in other systems.
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- Ian G McNish
- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 411 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN, 55108
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- Dep. of Crop Science, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 411 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN, 55108
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 411 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN, 55108
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 411 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN, 55108
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Bekele WA, Itaya A, Boyle B, Yan W, Mitchell Fetch J, Tinker NA. A targeted genotyping-by-sequencing tool (Rapture) for genomics-assisted breeding in oat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:653-664. [PMID: 31802146 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03496-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We adapted and tested a Rapture assay as an enhancement of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) in oat (Avena sativa). This assay was based on an additional bait-based capture of specific DNA fragments representing approximately 10,000 loci within the enzyme-based complexity reduction provided by GBS. By increasing the specificity of GBS to include only those fragments that provided effective polymorphic markers, it was possible to achieve deeper sequence coverage of target markers, while simultaneously sequencing a greater number of samples on a single unit of next-generation sequencing. The Rapture assay consistently out-performed the GBS assay when filtering markers at 80% completeness or greater, even though the total number of reads per sample was only 25% that of GBS. The reduced sequencing cost per sample for Rapture more than compensated for the increased cost of the capture reaction. Thus, Rapture generated a more repeatable set of marker data at a cost per sample that was approximately 40% less than GBS. Additional advantages of Rapture included accurate identification of heterozygotes, and the possibility to increase the depth or length of sequence reads with less impact on the cost per sample. We tested Rapture for genomic selection and diversity analysis and concluded that it is an effective alternative to GBS or other SNP assays. We recommend the use of Rapture in oat and the development of similar assays in other crops with large complex genomes.
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- Wubishet A Bekele
- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Plateforme d'Analyses Génomiques, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2701 Grand Valley Road, Brandon, MB, R7A 5Y3, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada.
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Genome-wide Association Study and Genomic Prediction for Fusarium graminearum Resistance Traits in Nordic Oat (Avena sativa L.). AGRONOMY-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10020174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Fusarium head blight (FHB) and the accumulation of deoxynivalenol (DON) mycotoxin induced by Fusarium graminearum and other Fusarium fungi cause serious problems for oat production in the Nordic region (Scandinavia, Fennoscandia). Besides toxin accumulation, FHB causes reduction in grain yield and in germination capacity. Here, genomic approaches for accelerating breeding efforts against FHB and DON accumulation were studied. Resistance-related traits included DON content, F. graminearum DNA (relative to oat DNA) content (qFUSG) measured with real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Fusarium-infected kernels (FIKs) and germination capacity (GC). Plant germplasm used in the study consisted of mostly breeding lines, and additionally, a few cultivars and exotic accessions. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and genomic prediction, enabling genomic selection (GS) on the resistance-related and collected agronomic traits, were performed. Considerable genetic correlations between resistance-related traits were observed: DON content had a positive correlation (0.60) with qFUSG and a negative correlation (−0.63) with germination capacity. With the material in hand, we were not able to find any significant associations between markers and resistance-related traits. On the other hand, in genomic prediction, some resistance-related traits showed favorable accuracy in fivefold cross-validation (GC = 0.57). Genomic prediction is a promising method and genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) generated for germination capacity are applicable in oat breeding programs.
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Blake VC, Woodhouse MR, Lazo GR, Odell SG, Wight CP, Tinker NA, Wang Y, Gu YQ, Birkett CL, Jannink JL, Matthews DE, Hane DL, Michel SL, Yao E, Sen TZ. GrainGenes: centralized small grain resources and digital platform for geneticists and breeders. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2020; 2019:5513438. [PMID: 31210272 DOI: 10.1093/database/baz065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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GrainGenes (https://wheat.pw.usda.gov or https://graingenes.org) is an international centralized repository for curated, peer-reviewed datasets useful to researchers working on wheat, barley, rye and oat. GrainGenes manages genomic, genetic, germplasm and phenotypic datasets through a dynamically generated web interface for facilitated data discovery. Since 1992, GrainGenes has served geneticists and breeders in both the public and private sectors on six continents. Recently, several new datasets were curated into the database along with new tools for analysis. The GrainGenes homepage was enhanced by making it more visually intuitive and by adding links to commonly used pages. Several genome assemblies and genomic tracks are displayed through the genome browsers at GrainGenes, including the Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) cv. 'Chinese Spring' IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 genome assembly, the Aegilops tauschii (D genome progenitor) Aet v4.0 genome assembly, the Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides (wild emmer wheat) cv. 'Zavitan' WEWSeq v.1.0 genome assembly, a T. aestivum (bread wheat) pangenome, the Hordeum vulgare (barley) cv. 'Morex' IBSC genome assembly, the Secale cereale (rye) select 'Lo7' assembly, a partial hexaploid Avena sativa (oat) assembly and the Triticum durum cv. 'Svevo' (durum wheat) RefSeq Release 1.0 assembly. New genetic maps and markers were added and can be displayed through CMAP. Quantitative trait loci, genetic maps and genes from the Wheat Gene Catalogue are indexed and linked through the Wheat Information System (WheatIS) portal. Training videos were created to help users query and reach the data they need. GSP (Genome Specific Primers) and PIECE2 (Plant Intron Exon Comparison and Evolution) tools were implemented and are available to use. As more small grains reference sequences become available, GrainGenes will play an increasingly vital role in helping researchers improve crops.
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- Victoria C Blake
- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA.,Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Robert Holley Center, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Robert Holley Center, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY, USA.,Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Robert Holley Center, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, USA.,Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Yang Z, Wang K, Aziz U, Zhao C, Zhang M. Evaluation of duplicated reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR analysis in genome unknown hexaploid oat ( Avena sativa L.). PLANT METHODS 2020; 16:138. [PMID: 33072174 PMCID: PMC7560290 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-020-00679-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Oat (Avena sativa L.), a hexaploid crop with unknown genome, has valuable nutritional, medicinal and pharmaceutical uses. However, no suitable RGs (reference genes) for qPCR (quantitative real-time PCR) has been documented for oat yet. Single-copy gene is often selected as RG, which is challengeable or impactable in unexplored polyploids. RESULTS In this study, eleven candidate RGs, including four duplicated genes, were selected from oat transcriptome. The stability and the optimal combination of these candidate RGs were assessed in 18 oat samples by using four statistical algorithms including the ΔCt method, geNorm, NormFinder and BestKeeper. The most stable RGs for "all samples", "shoots and roots of seedlings", "developing seeds" and "developing endosperms" were EIF4A (Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-3), UBC21 (Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme 21), EP (Expressed protein) and EIF4A respectively. Among these RGs, UBC21 was a four-copy duplicated gene. The reliability was validated by the expression patterns of four various genes normalized to the most and the least stable RGs in different sample sets. CONCLUSIONS Results provide a proof of concept that the duplicated RG is feasible for qPCR in polyploids. To our knowledge, this study is the first systematic research on the optimal RGs for accurate qPCR normalization of gene expression in different organs and tissues of oat.
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- Zheng Yang
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi China
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Kebede AZ, Admassu-Yimer B, Bekele WA, Gordon T, Bonman JM, Babiker E, Jin Y, Gale S, Wight CP, Tinker NA, Menzies JG, Beattie AD, Mitchell Fetch J, Fetch TG, Esvelt Klos K, McCartney CA. Mapping of the stem rust resistance gene Pg13 in cultivated oat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:259-270. [PMID: 31637459 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03455-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The widely deployed, oat stem rust resistance gene Pg13 was mapped by linkage analysis and association mapping, and KASP markers were developed for marker-assisted selection in breeding programs. Pg13 is one of the most extensively deployed stem rust resistance genes in North American oat cultivars. Identification of markers tightly linked to this gene will be useful for routine marker-assisted selection, identification of gene pyramids, and retention of the gene in backcrosses and three-way crosses. To this end, high-density linkage maps were constructed in four bi-parental mapping populations using SNP markers identified from 6K oat Infinium iSelect and genotyping-by-sequencing platforms. Additionally, genome-wide associations were identified using two sets of association panels consisting of diverse elite oat lines in one set and landrace accessions in the other. The results showed that Pg13 was located at approximately 67.7 cM on linkage group Mrg18 of the consensus genetic map. The gene co-segregated with the 7C-17A translocation breakpoint and with crown rust resistance gene Pc91. Co-segregating markers with the best prediction accuracy were identified at 67.7-68.5 cM on Mrg18. KASP assays were developed for linked SNP loci for use in oat breeding.
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- Aida Z Kebede
- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 101 Route 100, Morden, MB, R6M 1Y5, Canada
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Research Participant, 1691 South 2700 West, Aberdeen, ID, 83210, USA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 1691 South 2700 West, Aberdeen, ID, 83210, USA
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 1691 South 2700 West, Aberdeen, ID, 83210, USA
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- Southern Horticultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 810 Hwy 26, West Polarville, MS, 39470-0287, USA
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 1551 Lindig Street, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 1551 Lindig Street, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 101 Route 100, Morden, MB, R6M 1Y5, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2701 Grand Valley Road, Brandon, MB, R7C 1A1, Canada
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- Brandon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2701 Grand Valley Road, Brandon, MB, R7C 1A1, Canada
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 1691 South 2700 West, Aberdeen, ID, 83210, USA
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- Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 101 Route 100, Morden, MB, R6M 1Y5, Canada.
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Ociepa T, Okoń S, Nucia A, Leśniowska-Nowak J, Paczos-Grzęda E, Bisaga M. Molecular identification and chromosomal localization of new powdery mildew resistance gene Pm11 in oat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:179-185. [PMID: 31570968 PMCID: PMC6952345 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03449-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The appropriate selection of various traits in valuable plants is very important for modern plant breeding. Effective resistance to fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, is an example of such a trait in oats. Marker-assisted selection is an important tool that reduces the time and cost of selection. The aims of the present study were the identification of dominant DArTseq markers associated with a new resistance gene, annotated as Pm11 and derived from Avena sterilis genotype CN113536, and the subsequent conversion of these markers into a PCR-based assay. Among the obtained 30,620 silicoDArT markers, 202 markers were highly associated with resistance in the analysed population. Of these, 71 were selected for potential conversion: 42 specific to resistant and 29 to susceptible individuals. Finally, 40 silicoDArT markers were suitable for primer design. From this pool, five markers, 3 for resistant and 2 for susceptible plants, were selected for product amplification in the expected groups. The developed method, based on 2 selection markers, provides certain identification of resistant and susceptible homozygotes. Also, the use of these markers allowed the determination of heterozygotes in the analysed population. Selected silicoDArT markers were also used for chromosomal localization of new resistance genes. Five out of 71 segregating silicoDArT markers for the Pm11 gene were found on the available consensus genetic map of oat. Five markers were placed on linkage groups corresponding to Mrg12 on the Avena sativa consensus map.
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- Tomasz Ociepa
- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland
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Maughan PJ, Lee R, Walstead R, Vickerstaff RJ, Fogarty MC, Brouwer CR, Reid RR, Jay JJ, Bekele WA, Jackson EW, Tinker NA, Langdon T, Schlueter JA, Jellen EN. Genomic insights from the first chromosome-scale assemblies of oat (Avena spp.) diploid species. BMC Biol 2019; 17:92. [PMID: 31757219 PMCID: PMC6874827 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-019-0712-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cultivated hexaploid oat (Common oat; Avena sativa) has held a significant place within the global crop community for centuries; although its cultivation has decreased over the past century, its nutritional benefits have garnered increased interest for human consumption. We report the development of fully annotated, chromosome-scale assemblies for the extant progenitor species of the As- and Cp-subgenomes, Avena atlantica and Avena eriantha respectively. The diploid Avena species serve as important genetic resources for improving common oat's adaptive and food quality characteristics. RESULTS The A. atlantica and A. eriantha genome assemblies span 3.69 and 3.78 Gb with an N50 of 513 and 535 Mb, respectively. Annotation of the genomes, using sequenced transcriptomes, identified ~ 50,000 gene models in each species-including 2965 resistance gene analogs across both species. Analysis of these assemblies classified much of each genome as repetitive sequence (~ 83%), including species-specific, centromeric-specific, and telomeric-specific repeats. LTR retrotransposons make up most of the classified elements. Genome-wide syntenic comparisons with other members of the Pooideae revealed orthologous relationships, while comparisons with genetic maps from common oat clarified subgenome origins for each of the 21 hexaploid linkage groups. The utility of the diploid genomes was demonstrated by identifying putative candidate genes for flowering time (HD3A) and crown rust resistance (Pc91). We also investigate the phylogenetic relationships among other A- and C-genome Avena species. CONCLUSIONS The genomes we report here are the first chromosome-scale assemblies for the tribe Poeae, subtribe Aveninae. Our analyses provide important insight into the evolution and complexity of common hexaploid oat, including subgenome origin, homoeologous relationships, and major intra- and intergenomic rearrangements. They also provide the annotation framework needed to accelerate gene discovery and plant breeding.
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- Peter J Maughan
- Department of Plant & Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4105 LSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
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- Department of Plant & Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4105 LSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- Department of Plant & Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4105 LSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
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- Department of Plant & Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4105 LSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA
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Carlson MO, Montilla-Bascon G, Hoekenga OA, Tinker NA, Poland J, Baseggio M, Sorrells ME, Jannink JL, Gore MA, Yeats TH. Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Analyses Reveal the Genetic Basis of Seed Fatty Acid Composition in Oat ( Avena sativa L.). G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2019; 9:2963-2975. [PMID: 31296616 PMCID: PMC6723141 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Oat (Avena sativa L.) has a high concentration of oils, comprised primarily of healthful unsaturated oleic and linoleic fatty acids. To accelerate oat plant breeding efforts, we sought to identify loci associated with variation in fatty acid composition, defined as the types and quantities of fatty acids. We genotyped a panel of 500 oat cultivars with genotyping-by-sequencing and measured the concentrations of ten fatty acids in these oat cultivars grown in two environments. Measurements of individual fatty acids were highly correlated across samples, consistent with fatty acids participating in shared biosynthetic pathways. We leveraged these phenotypic correlations in two multivariate genome-wide association study (GWAS) approaches. In the first analysis, we fitted a multivariate linear mixed model for all ten fatty acids simultaneously while accounting for population structure and relatedness among cultivars. In the second, we performed a univariate association test for each principal component (PC) derived from a singular value decomposition of the phenotypic data matrix. To aid interpretation of results from the multivariate analyses, we also conducted univariate association tests for each trait. The multivariate mixed model approach yielded 148 genome-wide significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at a 10% false-discovery rate, compared to 129 and 73 significant SNPs in the PC and univariate analyses, respectively. Thus, explicit modeling of the correlation structure between fatty acids in a multivariate framework enabled identification of loci associated with variation in seed fatty acid concentration that were not detected in the univariate analyses. Ultimately, a detailed characterization of the loci underlying fatty acid variation can be used to enhance the nutritional profile of oats through breeding.
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- Maryn O Carlson
- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, and
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- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
- R.W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Comparative linkage mapping of diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid Avena species suggests extensive chromosome rearrangement in ancestral diploids. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12298. [PMID: 31444367 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48639-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The genus Avena (oats) contains diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid species that evolved through hybridization and polyploidization. Four genome types (named A through D) are generally recognized. We used GBS markers to construct linkage maps of A genome diploid (Avena strigosa x A. wiestii, 2n = 14), and AB genome tetraploid (A. barbata 2n = 28) oats. These maps greatly improve coverage from older marker systems. Seven linkage groups in the tetraploid showed much stronger homology and synteny with the A genome diploids than did the other seven, implying an allopolyploid hybrid origin of A. barbata from distinct A and B genome diploid ancestors. Inferred homeologies within A. barbata revealed that the A and B genomes are differentiated by several translocations between chromosomes within each subgenome. However, no translocation exchanges were observed between A and B genomes. Comparison to a consensus map of ACD hexaploid A. sativa (2n = 42) revealed that the A and D genomes of A. sativa show parallel rearrangements when compared to the A genomes of the diploids and tetraploids. While intergenomic translocations are well known in polyploid Avena, our results are most parsimoniously explained if translocations also occurred in the A, B and D genome diploid ancestors of polyploid Avena.
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Mapping Oat Crown Rust Resistance Gene Pc45 Confirms Association with PcKM. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2019; 9:505-511. [PMID: 30554147 PMCID: PMC6385968 DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Molecular mapping of crown rust resistance genes is important to effectively utilize these genes and improve breeding efficiency through marker-assisted selection. Pc45 is a major race-specific crown rust resistance gene initially identified in the wild hexaploid oat Avena sterilis in the early 1970s. This gene was transferred to cultivated oat (Avena sativa) and has been used as a differential for identification of crown rust races since 1974. Previous research identified an association between virulence to Pc45 and PcKM, a crown rust resistance gene in the varieties ‘Kame’ and ‘Morton’. This study was undertaken to reveal the relationship between Pc45 and PcKM. Pc45 was studied in the crosses ‘AC Morgan’/Pc45 and ‘Kasztan’/Pc45, where Pc45 is the differential line carrying Pc45. F2 progenies and F2:3 families of both populations were inoculated with the crown rust isolate CR258 (race NTGG) and single gene segregation ratios were observed. SNP markers for PcKM were tested on these populations and linkage maps were generated. In addition, 17 newly developed SNP markers identified from genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) data were mapped in these two populations, plus another three populations segregating for Pc45 or PcKM. Pc45 and PcKM mapped to the same location of Mrg08 (chromosome 12D) of the oat chromosome-anchored consensus map. These results strongly suggest that Pc45 and PcKM are the same resistance gene, but allelism (i.e., functionally different alleles of the same gene) or tight linkage (i.e., two tightly linked genes) cannot be ruled out based on the present data.
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Admassu-Yimer B, Bonman JM, Esvelt Klos K. Mapping of crown rust resistance gene Pc53 in oat (Avena sativa). PLoS One 2018; 13:e0209105. [PMID: 30586454 PMCID: PMC6306165 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Crown rust disease caused by the fungus Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca) is a major production constraint of oat in North America, Europe, and Australia. There are over 100 genes effective against one or more Pca races, but only a handful of seedling resistance (Pc) genes have been mapped to a known chromosomal location. The goal of the present study was to use linkage mapping to identify the genomic location of the Pc53 gene, and to produce a list of linked SNPs with potential as molecular markers for marker assisted breeding. The Pc53 gene was placed on the linkage group Mrg08 at 82.4 cM using F5-derived recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from a cross between the Pc53 carrier 6-112-1-15 (PI 311624) and the susceptible cultivar Otana. The map location was validated using RILs from a cross between 6-112-1-15 and the Pc50 differential line. Single nucleotide polymorphism marker GMI_ES02_c14533_567 was the closest to Pc53. A major seedling resistance gene 'PcKM' and QTL QcC.Core.08.1, QCr.Core.08.2, QCr.Core.08.3 and QCr.cdl9-12D were previously reported on Mrg08. QPc.Core.08.1 and PcKM were mapped to within 1 cM of Pc53; but previous virulence studies have indicated separate identities. The chromosomal location of Pc53 and SNPs linked with it will facilitate the utilization of Pc53 in oat breeding programs.
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- Belayneh Admassu-Yimer
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Research Participant, Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America
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- Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America
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Bekele WA, Wight CP, Chao S, Howarth CJ, Tinker NA. Haplotype-based genotyping-by-sequencing in oat genome research. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2018; 16:1452-1463. [PMID: 29345800 PMCID: PMC6041447 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Revised: 01/05/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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In a de novo genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis of short, 64-base tag-level haplotypes in 4657 accessions of cultivated oat, we discovered 164741 tag-level (TL) genetic variants containing 241224 SNPs. From this, the marker density of an oat consensus map was increased by the addition of more than 70000 loci. The mapped TL genotypes of a 635-line diversity panel were used to infer chromosome-level (CL) haplotype maps. These maps revealed differences in the number and size of haplotype blocks, as well as differences in haplotype diversity between chromosomes and subsets of the diversity panel. We then explored potential benefits of SNP vs. TL vs. CL GBS variants for mapping, high-resolution genome analysis and genomic selection in oats. A combined genome-wide association study (GWAS) of heading date from multiple locations using both TL haplotypes and individual SNP markers identified 184 significant associations. A comparative GWAS using TL haplotypes, CL haplotype blocks and their combinations demonstrated the superiority of using TL haplotype markers. Using a principal component-based genome-wide scan, genomic regions containing signatures of selection were identified. These regions may contain genes that are responsible for the local adaptation of oats to Northern American conditions. Genomic selection for heading date using TL haplotypes or SNP markers gave comparable and promising prediction accuracies of up to r = 0.74. Genomic selection carried out in an independent calibration and test population for heading date gave promising prediction accuracies that ranged between r = 0.42 and 0.67. In conclusion, TL haplotype GBS-derived markers facilitate genome analysis and genomic selection in oat.
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- Wubishet A. Bekele
- Ottawa Research and Development CentreAgriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaOttawaONCanada
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- Ottawa Research and Development CentreAgriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaOttawaONCanada
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- USDA‐ARS Cereal Crops Research UnitRed River Valley Agricultural Research CenterFargoNDUSA
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural SciencesAberystwyth UniversityAberystwythUK
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- Ottawa Research and Development CentreAgriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaOttawaONCanada
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Zhao J, Tang X, Wight CP, Tinker NA, Jiang Y, Yan H, Ma J, Lan X, Wei Y, Ren C, Chen G, Peng Y. Genetic mapping and a new PCR-based marker linked to a dwarfing gene in oat (Avena sativa L.). Genome 2018; 61:497-503. [PMID: 29733232 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2017-0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Short straw is a desired trait in cultivated hexaploid oat (Avena sativa L.) for some production environments. Marker-assisted selection, a key tool for achieving this objective, is limited by a lack of mapping data and available markers. Here, bulked-segregant analysis was used to identify PCR-based markers associated with a dwarfing gene. Genetic analysis identified a monogenic dominant inheritance of one dwarfing gene from WAOAT2132, temporarily designated DwWA. A simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker (AME117) that was already available and a new codominant PCR-based marker (bi17) developed by homologous cloning in the present study were both associated with the dwarfing gene. The two markers were located 21 and 1.2 cM from DwWA, respectively. The bi17 marker was mapped to neighboring SNP markers on chromosome 18D of the oat consensus map. Since Dw6 was previously mapped on chromosome 18, and since our new marker bi17 is also diagnostic for NILs generated for Dw6, there is strong evidence that the dwarfing gene identified in WAOAT2132 is Dw6. The newly developed markers could find applications in the identification of this gene in oat germplasm and in the fine mapping or positional cloning of the gene.
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- Jun Zhao
- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China.,b Agricultural Bureau of Xingwen County, Yibin 644400, Sichuan, China
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- c Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- c Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China.,c Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- d Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Baicheng 137000, Jilin, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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- a Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
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Nazareno ES, Li F, Smith M, Park RF, Kianian SF, Figueroa M. Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: a threat to global oat production. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2018; 19:1047-1060. [PMID: 28846186 PMCID: PMC6638059 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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UNLABELLED Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Pca) causes crown rust disease in cultivated and wild oat (Avena spp.). The significant yield losses inflicted by this pathogen make crown rust the most devastating disease in the oat industry. Pca is a basidiomycete fungus with an obligate biotrophic lifestyle, and is classified as a typical macrocyclic and heteroecious fungus. The asexual phase in the life cycle of Pca occurs in oat, whereas the sexual phase takes place primarily in Rhamnus species as the alternative host. Epidemics of crown rust happens in areas with warm temperatures (20-25 °C) and high humidity. Infection by the pathogen leads to plant lodging and shrivelled grain of poor quality. Disease symptoms: Infection of susceptible oat varieties gives rise to orange-yellow round to oblong uredinia (pustules) containing newly formed urediniospores. Pustules vary in size and can be larger than 5 mm in length. Infection occurs primarily on the surfaces of leaves, although occasional symptoms develop in the oat leaf sheaths and/or floral structures, such as awns. Symptoms in resistant oat varieties vary from flecks to small pustules, typically accompanied by chlorotic halos and/or necrosis. The pycnial and aecial stages are mostly present in the leaves of Rhamnus species, but occasionally symptoms can also be observed in petioles, young stems and floral structures. Aecial structures display a characteristic hypertrophy and can differ in size, occasionally reaching more than 5 mm in diameter. Taxonomy: Pca belongs to the kingdom Fungi, phylum Basidiomycota, class Pucciniomycetes, order Pucciniales and family Pucciniaceae. Host range: Puccinia coronata sensu lato can infect 290 species of grass hosts. Pca is prevalent in all oat-growing regions and, compared with other cereal rusts, displays a broad telial host range. The most common grass hosts of Pca include cultivated hexaploid oat (Avena sativa) and wild relatives, such as bluejoint grass, perennial ryegrass and fescue. Alternative hosts include several species of Rhamnus, with R. cathartica (common buckthorn) as the most important alternative host in Europe and North America. CONTROL Most crown rust management strategies involve the use of rust-resistant crop varieties and the application of fungicides. The attainment of the durability of resistance against Pca is difficult as it is a highly variable pathogen with a great propensity to overcome the genetic resistance of varieties. Thus, adult plant resistance is often exploited in oat breeding programmes to develop new crown rust-resistant varieties. Useful website: https://www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area/st-paul-mn/cereal-disease-lab/docs/cereal-rusts/race-surveys/.
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- Eric S. Nazareno
- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMN 55108USA
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- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMN 55108USA
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- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of Minnesota‐Northwest Research and Outreach CenterCrookstonMN 56716USA
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- Plant Breeding InstituteThe University of SydneyNarellanNSW2567Australia
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- Cereal Disease Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture‐Agricultural Research ServiceSt. PaulMN 55108USA
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- Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMN 55108USA
- Stakman‐Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant HealthUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMN 55108USA
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Bourke PM, Voorrips RE, Visser RGF, Maliepaard C. Tools for Genetic Studies in Experimental Populations of Polyploids. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:513. [PMID: 29720992 PMCID: PMC5915555 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the principal challenges faced by polyploid organisms is to evolve stable meiotic mechanisms to faithfully transmit genetic information to the next generation upon which the study of inheritance is based. In this review we look at the tools available to the research community to better understand polyploid inheritance, many of which have only recently been developed. Most of these tools are intended for experimental populations (rather than natural populations), facilitating genomics-assisted crop improvement and plant breeding. This is hardly surprising given that a large proportion of domesticated plant species are polyploid. We focus on three main areas: (1) polyploid genotyping; (2) genetic and physical mapping; and (3) quantitative trait analysis and genomic selection. We also briefly review some miscellaneous topics such as the mode of inheritance and the availability of polyploid simulation software. The current polyploid analytic toolbox includes software for assigning marker genotypes (and in particular, estimating the dosage of marker alleles in the heterozygous condition), establishing chromosome-scale linkage phase among marker alleles, constructing (short-range) haplotypes, generating linkage maps, performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses, and simulating polyploid populations. These tools can also help elucidate the mode of inheritance (disomic, polysomic or a mixture of both as in segmental allopolyploids) or reveal whether double reduction and multivalent chromosomal pairing occur. An increasing number of polyploids (or associated diploids) are being sequenced, leading to publicly available reference genome assemblies. Much work remains in order to keep pace with developments in genomic technologies. However, such technologies also offer the promise of understanding polyploid genomes at a level which hitherto has remained elusive.
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Rines HW, Miller ME, Carson M, Chao S, Tiede T, Wiersma J, Kianian SF. Identification, introgression, and molecular marker genetic analysis and selection of a highly effective novel oat crown rust resistance from diploid oat, Avena strigosa. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018; 131:721-733. [PMID: 29222636 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-3031-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/25/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Oat crown rust is one of the most damaging diseases of oat. We identified a new source of resistance and developed KASP and TaqMan markers for selection in breeding programs. A new highly effective resistance to oat crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae) was identified in the diploid oat Avena strigosa PI 258731 and introgressed into hexaploid cultivated oat. Young plants with this resistance show moderate susceptibility, whereas older plant tissues and adult plants are resistant with no virulent isolates encountered in over 8 years of testing. Resistance was incorporated into hexaploid oat by embryo rescue, colchicine chromosome doubling followed by backcrosses with a hexaploid parent, and selection for stable transmission of resistance. To mitigate flag leaf and panicle chlorosis/necrosis associated with the resistance, crosses were made with derived resistant lines to breeding lines of divergent parentage followed by selection. Subsequently, two F2 sister lines, termed MNBT1020-1 and MNBT1021-1, were identified in which the chlorosis/necrosis was reduced. These two lines performed well in replicated multi-location state trials in 2015 and 2016 out-yielding all cultivar entries. Segregating F2:3 plants resulting from crosses of MNBT lines to susceptible parents were genotyped with the oat 6K SNP array, and SNP loci with close linkage to the resistance were identified. KASP assays generated from linked SNPs showed accurate discrimination of the resistance in derivatives of the resistant MNBT lines crossed to susceptible breeding lines. A TaqMan marker was developed and correctly identified homozygous resistance in over 95% of 379 F4 plants when rust was scored in F4:5 plants in the field. Thus, a novel highly effective resistance and associated molecular markers are available for use in breeding, genetic analysis, and functional studies.
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- Howard W Rines
- USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Research Unit, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND, 58102, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Crookston, MN, 56716, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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Burns EE, Keith BK, Refai MY, Bothner B, Dyer WE. Constitutive redox and phosphoproteome changes in multiple herbicide resistant Avena fatua L. are similar to those of systemic acquired resistance and systemic acquired acclimation. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 220:105-114. [PMID: 29169105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2017.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plants are routinely confronted with numerous biotic and abiotic stressors, and in response have evolved highly effective strategies of systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and systemic acquired acclimation (SAA), respectively. A much more evolutionarily recent abiotic stress is the application of herbicides to control weedy plants, and their intensive use has selected for resistant weed populations that cause substantial crop yield losses and increase production costs. Non-target site resistance (NTSR) to herbicides is rapidly increasing worldwide and is associated with alterations in generalized stress defense networks. This work investigated protein post-translational modifications associated with NTSR in multiple herbicide resistant (MHR) Avena fatua, and their commonalities with those of SAR and SAA. We used proteomic, biochemical, and immunological approaches to compare constitutive protein profiles in MHR and herbicide susceptible (HS) A. fatua populations. Phosphoproteome and redox proteome surveys showed that post-translational modifications of proteins with functions in core cellular processes were reduced in MHR plants, while those involved in xenobiotic and stress response, reactive oxygen species detoxification and redox maintenance, heat shock response, and intracellular signaling were elevated in MHR as compared to HS plants. More specifically, MHR plants contained constitutively elevated levels of three protein kinases including the lectin S-receptor-like serine/threonine-protein kinase LecRK2, a well-characterized component of SAR. Analyses of superoxide dismutase enzyme activity and protein levels did not reveal constitutive differences between MHR and HS plants. The overall results support the idea that herbicide stress is perceived similarly to other abiotic stresses, and that A. fatua NTSR shares analogous features with SAR and SAA. We speculate that MHR A. fatua's previous exposure to sublethal herbicide doses, as well as earlier evolution under a diversity of abiotic and biotic stressors, has led to a heightened state of stress preparedness that includes NTSR to a number of unrelated herbicides.
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- Erin E Burns
- Department of Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology, PO Box 173150, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology, PO Box 173150, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Research, PO Box 173400, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Research, PO Box 173400, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology, PO Box 173150, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States.
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Rispail N, Montilla-Bascón G, Sánchez-Martín J, Flores F, Howarth C, Langdon T, Rubiales D, Prats E. Multi-Environmental Trials Reveal Genetic Plasticity of Oat Agronomic Traits Associated With Climate Variable Changes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1358. [PMID: 30283476 PMCID: PMC6156136 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Although oat cultivation around the Mediterranean basin is steadily increasing, its yield in these regions lags far behind those of Northern Europe. This results mainly from the poor adaptation of current oat cultivars to Mediterranean environments. Local landraces may act as reservoirs of favorable traits that could contribute to increase oat resilience in this region. To aid selection of suitable agro-climate adapted genotypes we integrated genome-wide association approaches with analysis of field assessed phenotypes of genetic variants and of the weight of associated markers across different environmental variables. Association models accounting for oat population structure were applied on either arithmetic means or best linear unbiased prediction (BLUPs) to ensure robust identification of associations with the agronomic traits evaluated. The meta-analysis of the six joint environments (mega-environment) identified several markers associated with several agronomic traits and crown rust severity. Five of these associated markers were located within expressed genes. These associations were only mildly influenced by climatic variables indicating that these markers are good candidates to improve the genetic potential of oat under Mediterranean conditions. The models also highlighted several marker-trait associations, strongly affected by particular climatic variables including high rain pre- or post-heading dates and high temperatures, revealing strong potential for oat adaptation to specific agro-climatic conditions. These results will contribute to increase oat resilience for particular climatic conditions and facilitate breeding for plant adaptation to a wider range of climatic conditions in the current scenario of climate change.
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- ETSI La Rábida, University of Huelva, Palos de la Frontera, Spain
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Córdoba, Spain
- *Correspondence: Elena Prats,
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Oats in healthy gluten-free and regular diets: A perspective. Food Res Int 2017; 110:3-10. [PMID: 30029703 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Revised: 11/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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During the 20th century, the economic position of oats (Avena sativa L.) decreased strongly in favour of higher yielding crops including winter wheat and maize. Presently, oat represents only ~1.3% of the total world grain production, and its production system is fragmented. Nonetheless, current interest is growing because of recent knowledge on its potential benefits in food, feed and agriculture. This perspective will serve as a further impetus, with special focus on the recently valued advantages of oats in human food and health. Five approved European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claims apply to oats. Four relate to the oat-specific soluble fibres, the beta-glucans, and concern the maintenance and reduction of blood cholesterol, better blood glucose balance and increased faecal bulk. The fifth claim concerns the high content of unsaturated fatty acids, especially present in the endosperm, which reduces the risks of heart and vascular diseases. Furthermore, oat starch has a low glycemic index, which is favourable for weight control. Oat-specific polyphenols and avenanthramides have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Thus, oats can contribute significantly to the presently recommended whole-grain diet. Next to globulins, oats contain a small fraction of prolamin storage proteins, called 'avenins', but at a much lower quantity than gluten proteins in wheat, barley and rye. Oat avenins do not contain any of the known coeliac disease epitopes from gluten of wheat, barley and rye. Long-term food studies confirm the safety of oats for coeliac disease patients and the positive health effects of oat products in a gluten-free diet. These effects are general and independent of oat varieties. In the EU (since 2009), the USA (since 2013) and Canada (since 2015) oat products may be sold as gluten-free provided that any gluten contamination level is below 20ppm. Oats are, however, generally not gluten-free when produced in a conventional production chain, because of regular contamination with wheat, barley or rye. Therefore, establishing a separate gluten-free oat production chain requires controlling all steps in the chain; the strict conditions will be discussed. Genomic tools, including a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker array and a dense genetic map, have recently been developed and will support marker-assisted breeding. In 2015, the Oat Global initiative emerged enabling a world-wide cooperation starting with a data sharing facility on genotypic, metabolic and phenotypic characteristics. Further, the EU project TRAFOON (Traditional Food Networks) facilitated the transfer of knowledge to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to stimulate innovations in oat production, processing, products and marketing, among others with regard to gluten-free. Finally, with focus on counteracting market fragmentation of the global oat market and production chains, interactive innovation strategies between customers (consumers) and companies through co-creation are discussed.
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