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    Mapping of novel salt tolerance QTL in an Excalibur × Kukri doubled haploid wheat population

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    2018-10-01
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    Asif, Muhammad A
    Schilling, Rhiannon K
    Tilbrook, Joanne
    Brien, Chris
    Dowling, Kate
    Rabie, Huwaida
    Short, Laura
    Trittermann, Christine
    Garcia, Alexandre
    Barrett-Lennard, Edward G
    Berger, Bettina
    Mather, Diane E
    Gilliham, Matthew
    Fleury, Delphine
    Tester, Mark
    Roy, Stuart J
    Pearson, Allison S
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    Key message Novel QTL for salinity tolerance traits have been detected using non-destructive and destructive phe­ notyping in bread wheat and were shown to be linked to improvements in yield in saline fields. Abstract Soil salinity is a major limitation to cereal production. Breeding new salt-tolerant cultivars has the potential to improve cereal crop yields. In this study, a doubled haploid bread wheat mapping population, derived from the bi-parental cross of Excaliburx Kukri, was grown in a glasshouse under control and salinity treatments and evaluated using high­ throughput non-destructive imaging technology. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of this population detected multiple QTL under salt and control treatments. Of these, six QTL were detected in the salt treatment including one for maintenance of shoot growth under salinity (QG0_5tasl-7A), one for leaf Na+ exclusion (QNa.asl-7A) and four for leaf K+ accumulation (QK.asl-2B.l, QK.asl-2B.2, QK.asl-5A and QK:Na.asl -6A ). The beneficial allele for QG0_5!"asl-7A (the maintenance of shoot growth under salinity) was present in six out of 44 mainly Australian bread and durum wheat cultivars. The effect of each QTL allele on grain yield was tested in a range of salinity concentrations at three field sites across 2 years. In six out of nine field trials with different levels of salinity stress, lines with alleles for Na+ exclusion and/or K+ maintenance at three QTL (QNa.asl-7A, QK.asl-2B.2 and QK:Na.asl-6A) excluded moreNa+ or accumulated more K+ compared to lines without these alleles. Importantly, the QK.asl-2B.2 allele for higher K+ accumulation was found to be associated with higher grain yield at all field sites. Several alleles at other QTL were associated with higher grain yields at selected field sites.
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    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-018-3146-y
    http://dspace.bethlehem.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/103
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