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Marker‐assisted backcross breeding for improvement of drought tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell)
Authors:Neha Rai  Amasiddha Bellundagi  Prashant K. C. Kumar  Ramya Kalasapura Thimmappa  Sushma Rani  Nivedita Sinha  Hari krishna  Neelu Jain  Gyanendra P. Singh  Pradeep K. Singh  Suresh Chand  Kumble Vinod Prabhu
Affiliation:1. Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India;2. Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Abstract:Drought stress is presently a major productivity limiting factor in wheat. This study developed five wheat lines with inbuilt tolerance to drought stress using marker‐assisted backcross breeding (MABB) approach employing three linked quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in an initial population of 516 BC1F1 plants. The high‐yielding wheat cultivar ‘HD2733’ grown over last few years extensively in the eastern plains of India is largely sensitive to drought and is used as the recurrent parent. ‘HI1500’ released for water‐limiting conditions and carrying drought‐tolerant QTLs was used as donor parent. MABB lines were advanced using foreground and background selection, coupled with stringent phenotyping. We identified 29 lines that were homozygous for targeted QTLs in different combinations with background recovery range of 89.2%–95.4%. Further evaluation of selected lines for physiological traits and distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) characters under rainfed condition identified five potential varieties for national varietal evaluation programme in the zone. The report is first of its kind in implementing known QTLs for the development of drought‐tolerant wheat lines through MABB approach.
Keywords:drought stress  phenotyping  physiological traits  QTLs  SSR markers  wheat
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