Allelic Variation in Loci for Adaptive Response and Its Effect on Agronomical Traits in Chinese Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Heading date was an important trait that decided the adaptation of wheat to environments. It was modified by genes involved in vernalization response, photoperiod response and development rate. In this study, four loci Xgwm261, Xgwm219, Xbarc23 and Ppd-D1 which were previously reported related to heading time were analyzed based on three groups of wheat including landraces (L), varieties bred before 1983 (B82) and after 1983 (A83) collected from Chinese wheat growing areas. Generally, heading date of landrace was longer than that of varieties. Significant differences in the heading time existed within the groups, which implied that diversification selection was much helpful for adaptation in each wheat zone. Photoperiod insensitive allele Ppd-D1a was the first choice for both landrace and modern varieties, which promoted the heading date about four days earlier than that of sensitive allele Ppd-D1b. The three SSR loci had different characters in the three groups. Predominant allele combination for each zone was predicted for wheat group L and A83, which made great contribution to advantageous traits. Xgwm219 was found to be significantly associated with heading date in Yellow and Huai River Winter Wheat Zone (Zone II) and spike length in Middle and lower Yangtze Valley Winter Wheat Zone (Zone III), which implied functional diversification for adaption. Variation for earliness genes provided here will be helpful for whet breeding in future climatic change.     

Conversion of the genic male sterility (GMS) system of bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) to cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)

Non‐pungent bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) lacks the cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) nuclear restorer allele, Rf, and CMS cannot be employed in its F₁ hybrid seed production. To demonstrate that the genic male sterility (GMS) system in non‐pungent bell pepper can be converted to the CMS male sterility system, the conversion of GMS to CMS for non‐pungent bell pepper line GC3 was conducted by introgression of S‐type cytoplasm and the Rf allele from tropical pungent donors. After morphological traits were evaluated, two lines from BC₁F₁ containing S‐type cytoplasm and four lines from BC₂F₂ containing Rf allele, phenotypically similar to GC3, were obtained and could be employed as CMS male sterile lines and restorer lines for non‐pungent bell pepper. Four molecular markers potentially linked to traits of interest were also evaluated in BC₁F₁ and BC₁F₂ populations. This is the first time that GMS has been successfully converted to CMS in bell pepper, a significant contribution for bell pepper hybrid seed production.     

大白菜雄性核不育复等位基因的鉴定

为了摸清大白菜核不育复等位基因在3种生态型大白菜品系中的分布特性.利用基因型为MsMs的大白菜纯合显性雄性不育株为母本.与68个正常可育的直筒、卵圆和平头型大白菜可育品系杂交.统计后代育性分离比例,鉴定各品系基因型,计算不同生态型可育品系在核不育位点上的基因频率和基因型频率.结果表明:直筒型大白菜可育品系以纯合隐性基因型msms为主,占71.43%:可育基因ms频率为76.79%,恢复基Ms频率为23.21%.卵圆型大白菜可育品系3种基因型Ms/MsfMsfms和msms分别占42.42%.39.40%和18.18%;Msf基冈频率为62.12%,ms基因频率为37.88%.平头型大白菜可育品系以纯合隐性基因型msms为主,占57.14%:Msf基因频率为33.33%,ms基因频率为66.67%.直简型和平头型大白菜可育品系的核不育复等位基因位点上以ms基因为主.而卵圆型大白菜可育品系的核不育复等位基因位点上以Msf基因为主.     

Effect of the Rht-D1 dwarfing locus on Fusarium head blight rating in three segregating populations of winter wheat

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the major fungal diseases in wheat throughout the world. To control FHB severity, breeding genetically resistant varieties is thought to be the most promising strategy. In wheat breeding programmes, short cultivars predominantly carrying the Norin 10 derived semi-dwarfing allele Rht-D1b ( Rht2 ) are preferred worldwide because of higher achievable grain yields and lower risk of lodging. This study was conducted to determine the influence of different alleles at the Rht-D1 locus on FHB reaction. Three winter wheat populations were produced by crossing rather susceptible varieties 'Biscay', 'Pirat' and 'Rubens' carrying mutant-type allele Rht-D1b with the more resistant varieties 'Apache', 'Romanus' and 'History' containing the Rht-D1a wild-type allele ( rht2 ). The 190, 216 and 103 progeny of the F₄-derived populations were assayed for the presence of Rht-D1a or Rht-D1b , plant height, and mean FHB rating after spray inoculation at flowering time with a highly aggressive isolate of Fusarium culmorum . Comparably, high mean FHB severities ranging from 28% to 49% for all population × environment combinations were achieved, with significant genotypic variation for FHB rating and plant height within all populations. Both traits were negatively correlated with r ranging from −0.48 to −0.61 in the complete populations. However, within the subpopulations homozygous for one or other height allele these correlations decreased considerably. The Rht-D1b semi-dwarfing allele resulted in 7–18% shorter plants, depending on the population, but a considerably increased FHB reaction of 22–53%. Nevertheless, significant genotypic variance for FHB resistance remained in all tested Rht-D1b subpopulations indicating that selection for moderately FHB resistant genotypes within agronomically beneficial Rht-D1b genotypes is still feasible.     

中国荷斯坦牛TLR2基因SNPs的快速筛查及等位基因频率的估算

为了快速筛查Toll样受体2基因的SNPs,采用DNA池和直接测序法确定了荷斯坦牛TLR2基因的多个SNP突变方式,估算了各SNP的等位基因频率,并利用生物信息学方法预测突变对TLR2 mRNA和蛋白的影响。结果显示,在荷斯坦牛TLR2 基因内共发现6个核苷酸突变位点,分别为T602A、G10900C、G11047C、A11076T、C12077T、T10634G,其中T10634G为错义突变,导致第64位氨基酸由原来的谷氨酸(Gly)替换为天冬氨酸(Asp)。研究结果可为中国荷斯坦牛的抗病育种提供实验依据。     

Differential expressions among five Waxy alleles and their effects on the eating and cooking qualities in specialty rice cultivars

Eating and cooking qualities(ECQs) of rice are important attributes due to its major influence on consumer acceptability. To better understand the molecular mechanism of the variation in ECQs, we investigated and compared the expressions among different alleles of the Waxy(Wx) gene and its effect on ECQs in specialty rice cultivars. The results showed that the accumulation of amylose was positively and significantly correlated to the level of mature Wx m RNA and granule-bound starch synthase I(GBSS I) in developing rice grain at 12 days after flowering. The amount of GBSS I and its activity together are the main factors controlling amylose synthesis. Differences in ECQs among five Wx allele types were investigated in samples from 15 rice varieties. The apparent amylose content(AAC) and gel consistency(GC) were similar in each type of Wx allele. The AAC followed the order, Wxa typeWxin typeWxb typeWxmq typewx. Contrary to this, the GC showed an opposite trend compared to AAC. There was a wide variation in rapid visco analyzer(RVA) profile among five Wx allele types, while varieties sharing a specified Wx allele had basically the similar RVA profile, although there was a slight difference in some RVA parameters, peak, hot paste and cool paste viscosities.     

Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal New Genetic Targets for Five Panicle Traits of International Rice Varieties

Narrow genetic background is a key limiting factor in breeding stable high-yielding rice. The introduction and utilization of international rice core germplasm is an important way to increase the genetic diversity of domestic rice varieties. We conducted a genome-wide association study on 5 panicle traits of 315 rice accessions introduced from the international rice micro-core germplasm bank. Based on the tests from Yangzhou of China and Arkansas of American, environment exhibited a significant impacts on panicle length and primary branch number, while grain length, grain width and grain length/width ratio were insensitive to environment changes. We discovered a total of 7, 5, 10, 8 and 6 chromosomal regions or single nucleotide polymorphism marker loci that were significantly associated with primary branch number, panicle length, grain length, grain width and grain length/width ratio, respectively. Among them, eleven regions were associated with grain shape and one region associated with primary branch number, showing the good consistence in two different environments. Significant linear correlation was discovered between the average trait value and the number of favorable alleles carried by the varieties in all associated loci. Among the associated loci, varieties in aromatic and tropical japonica sub-groups possessed most favorable alleles, while those in temperate japonica sub-group contained the least. The domestic varieties mainly harbored unfavorable alleles in six of the associated loci being detected. On the contrary, 15 varieties from 11 different countries harbored more favorable alleles(as many as 30 or more) than the others. Remarkably, all these 15 varieties belonged to the tropical japonica sub-group. In conclusion, our study demonstrates that varieties in the tropical japonica sub-group had high potentials for breeding stable high-yielding rice. Based on this discovery, we proposed a new approach for improving the panicle traits of domestic rice by using tropical japonica varieties.     

牛趋化因子受体基因1第2外显子的单核苷酸多态性分析

采用DNA测序、巢氏PCR和CRS-PCR方法对中国荷斯坦牛、鲁西黄牛、渤海黑牛的趋化因子受体基因1(CXCR1)的单核苷酸多态性(SNPs)进行研究,在第2外显子上发现了4个SNPs,分别为291 bp(C/T)、333 bp(C/T)、337 bp(A/G)和365 bp(C/T),这4个位点在中国荷斯坦牛、鲁西黄牛、渤海黑牛群体中均达到中度多态(0.25PIC0.5),优势等位基因分别为C、C、A、C,等位基因频率分别为0.82/0.67/0.65、0.80/0.74/0.71、0.70/0.65/0.82、0.56/0.58/0.56。经χ2适合性检验,渤海黑牛所有位点全部达到Hardy-Weinberg平衡状态;荷斯坦牛在突变位点291 bp(C/T)、333 bp(C/T)和337 bp(A/G)达到Hardy-Weinberg平衡状态;鲁西黄牛仅在365 bp(C/T)位点达到Hardy-Weinberg平衡状态。