Detection of repeated genotypes among 93 diploid wheat accessions

Summary An objective procedure was developed to find and eliminate repeated genotypes from a set of crop cultivars or accessions which may be used as parents for future plant breeding programs. Nonhierarchical, nonexclusive, exhaustive cluster analysis was used to group 93 diploid wheat accessions using LSD multiple comparisons of accession means based on data measured on seven characters. Beginning with the rarest accessions, i.e. those represented in the fewest clusters resulting from the clusters analysis, a minimum number of the accessions were chosen to represent the phenotypes of all 93 of the accessions. Two analyses were performed, one using data from an irrigated trial, the other from a dryland trial. The dryland trial data was more discriminating in that it required 71 accessions to represent all of the clusters generated from the original 93 accessions while the irrigated trial data required only 60 of the 93 accessions. In addition to the 71 accessions chosen from the dryland trial analysis, the irrigated trial analysis suggested an additional 12 accessions were phenotypically and, therefore, genotypically unique. The total of 83 unique accessions left 10 phenotypically duplicate accessions to be eliminated from the set of potential parents. Four of the 10 duplicated accessions were rare in that they were represented in very few clusters in either the irrigated trial analysis or in the dryland trial analysis. Because their phenotypes were not unique in spite of being rare, we believe such accessions were duplicated genotypically as well as phenotypically. The other six duplicates were common in that they were represented in a large number of clusters. Such accessions may not prove to be duplicates if grown in additional environments (trials), or if measured on additional characters.     

一粒系小麦高分子量谷蛋白亚基1Ay的多样性

通过十二烷基磺酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDS-PAGE)对44份一粒系小麦1Ay亚基的检测结果表明,一粒系小麦中普遍存在表达的1Ay亚基。供试的乌拉尔图小麦、野生一粒小麦和栽培一粒小麦的分布频率依次为42.86%,81.25%和100%。同时,1Ay亚基的迁移率在物种间也存在明显多态性。3种供试物种中分离出齐平于和快于1Dy12,齐平、快于和慢于1Bx7,以及齐平于1By8共6种迁移率类型。其中,乌拉尔图小麦的1Ay全部在1Dy12亚基附近,而野生一粒小麦和栽培一粒小麦则以集中在1Bx7附近为主。尽管一粒系小麦1Ay的表达与地理来源有关,但也存在变异,体现在来源地不同的同一物种的1Ay表达频率相异,又体现在来自同一地区材料的1Ay迁移率存在明显多态性。一粒系小麦具有的较丰富的1Ay亚基变异类型,为小麦育种提供了资源。     

217份一粒系小麦苗期抗条锈病鉴定及抗病基因检测

小麦条锈病是影响小麦生产的重要病害之一。发掘新的抗病基因, 培育新的抗病品种是防治小麦条锈病最经济有效的措施。一粒系小麦作为普通小麦的二级基因源, 蕴含了丰富的抗病资源。为了从一粒系小麦中发掘新抗病基因, 促进其利用, 本文对217份一粒系小麦材料进行了苗期抗条锈病鉴定和A基因组的部分抗条锈病基因检测。结果表明, 共有55份材料在苗期对CYR32表现抗病, 占25.35%;抗病基因分子标记检测显示, 携带Yr1、Yr34/Yr48、Yr69、Yr76抗性基因的材料分别有26、22、16、34份。共有4份表现高抗或免疫的材料同时携带2个抗性基因:2份材料携带Yr69和Yr34, 2份携带Yr1和Yr34。所有供试材料中均未检测到Yr17。此外, 有23份抗病材料未检测到以上抗病基因, 其中7份表现高抗及免疫, 可能携带其他已知或新的抗条锈病基因。本研究为一粒系小麦的利用提供了参考信息。     

Kernel, Milling and Baking Properties of Spring-Type Spelt and Einkorn Wheats

One accession of einkorn (Triticum monococcum) and five spring spelt accessions (T. aestivumsubsp.spelta) were selected and grown at five locations in 1992 and 1993 for evaluation of kernel, milling and baking properties. The high protein einkorn accession (TM23) was similar to common hard red spring (HRS) wheat in kernel size but the soft grain gave low flour yields. Einkorn flour had low sedimentation values, weak Mixograph curves and low loaf volumes with no bromate response. The two large-seeded spelt accessions, SK0021 and PGR8801, were comparable to common HRS wheat in kernel hardness, flour yield and protein content, but were very inferior in falling number, sedimentation value, Mixograph characteristics, loaf volume, crumb texture and colour. The spelt accessions, SK0505, SK0263 and RL5407, also exhibited large kernels but were soft in texture and gave high flour yields, intermediate sedimentation values, weak Mixograph characteristics, but satisfactory loaf volumes and bromate responses relative to HRS wheat. With addition of only 15 ppm bromate, the latter spelt accessions gave breads with loaf volumes similar to those of HRS wheat breads. In sensory tests, these spelt breads were intermediate in preference as compared to HRS wheat breads.     

Survey of amylose content in Secale cereale, triticum monococcum, T. turgidum and T. tauschii

A standard method for determining apparent amylose content was modified for use with samples of 2–3 cereal seeds. Starch was extracted by soaking the seeds overnight in dilute ammonia solution, grinding in NaCl solution in a microfuge tube with an appropriate pestle and decanting the starch slurry. The starch was then washed successively in acetic acid, ethanol and acetone. The amylose content was determined by dispersing 5·0 mg of the starch in ethanol, adding NaOH solution, heating until a clear gel was formed, diluting, neutralising with citric acid, staining with iodine and reading in a spectrophotometer at 620 nm. The method provided a very strong correlation with a standard method for much larger samples. The apparent amylose content was determined for 1083 accessions of Triticum monococcum (einkorn), T. turgidum (emmer), T. tauschii and Secale cereale (rye). The 10 extreme accessions of each species were re-analysed a further three times and the two most extreme individual lines were selected for genetic studies. Apparent amylose content of T. monococcum ranged from 15 to 28%; that of T. turgidum, 19–31%; T. tauschii, 21–34%; and rye 12–28%. These ranges are considered sufficiently broad to allow amylose content to be further diversified through breeding.     

A high‐resolution einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) linkage map involving wild,domesticated and feral einkorn genotypes

A high‐resolution consensus linkage map of Triticum monococcum was assembled from two separate maps involving domesticated, feral and wild einkorn wheat accessions. The genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) approach based on DArTseq markers yielded overstretched maps. Deleting all markers with missing data and then converting dubious singletons to missing data produced two maps of about 1,380 cM, close to the published genome size. The consensus map spanned 1,562 cM, had one bin mapped every 0.92 cM and showed only one gap > 10 cM. Chromosome length varied between 151 cM (chromosome 4) and 270 cM (chromosome 7). The consensus map was compared to other A‐genome maps, and the sequences of genetically mapped DArTseq were used to anchor contigs of the T. monococcum, T. urartu and T. aestivum draft genomes based on sequence homology to assess colinearity and to assign mapped markers to the seven chromosomes of the bread wheat A‐genome. Finally, an in silico functional characterization of the sequences was performed. This high‐resolution map will facilitate QTL and association analysis and assist the genome assembly of the einkorn genome.     

Molecular Characterization and SNP Markers of the β-purothionin Gene in Einkorn Wheats

Forty-three gene sequences encoding purothionin were characterized from the three species or subspecies of einkorn wheats. These sequences contained 887 bp, among which 92 SNPs including 29 indel loci were detected, giving an average SNP frequency of one SNP per 9.64 bases. According to these sequences, 5 SNP markers were successfully designed, which were used to mine the variations ofpurothionin genes of 102 einkorn wheat accessions. Based on the 5 detected SNP loci, 102 einkorn wheat accessions could be divided into 21 haplotypes, among which 11 haplotypes contained a single sample. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the purothionin genes from einkorn wheats were more closely related to those from D genome than B genome. Seven out of the 43 gene sequences were assumed to be pseudogenes by the definition of containing in-frame stop codons and small insertions/deletions leading to frameshift. In the remaining 36 amino acid sequences, the 8 Cys and Tyr-13 loci in the mature thionin domain which played important roles in the biological activities were all conserved, whereas there were some varieties occurred in some other important amino acid residues such as Lys and Arg.     

Physiological aspects of domestication in diploid wheat

Summary A comparative study of photosynthetic response to water stress was conducted with one genotype of wild einkorn (Triticum boeoticum, W) and one of domesticated einkorn (T. monococcum, C).Per unit leaf area, W showed a better performance for photosynthetic and transpiration activities, even under dry air and dry soil conditions. Its leaf water potential was always higher than that of C at any level of soil water potential. The difference in photosynthetic recovery from severe drought between W and C was also obvious. The photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate and water status of the leaves observed at 20 h after rewatering was almost the same as non-stressed leaves in W, whereas in C the photosynthetic rate was about half that of the non-stressed leaves, which was accompanied with a low transpiration rate and a high gas diffusion resistance. The ability of W to maintain a proper water balance over a wide range of soil water potential and to recover rapidly from severe drought seems to be a result of adaptation to its hard habitats.However, under favourable water supply, the photosynthetic rate per unit leaf nitrogen was higher in C than in W. This may be advantageous to bring about a better plant growth than W on the arable land where the improved water supply is guaranteed.