scholarly journals Detection of QTL for pre-harvest sprouting resistance and grain dormancy in highly sprouting-tolerant wheat

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Tsutomu Nishimura ◽  
Masahiko Mori ◽  
Takahiro Kamada ◽  
Wakana Nakane ◽  
Ikkei Komine ◽  
...  
Genome ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiko Himi ◽  
Shin Taketa

Preharvest sprouting is a serious problem in grain crop production because it causes quality deterioration and economic losses. It is well known that grain colour is closely associated with grain dormancy in wheat; white-grained lines without accumulating proanthocyanidins in testa tend to be more susceptible to preharvest sprouting than red ones. All available white-grained wheat lines are restricted to triple recessive mutations at the R loci (R-A1, R-B1, and R-D1), but barley is known to have 11 independent loci conferring the proanthocyanidin-free grain phenotype. In this study, we evaluated the dormancy levels of anthocyanin/proanthocyanidin-free ant17 mutants. Three ant17 mutants showed the same levels of dormancy as their respective wild types. Sequencing of three independent ant17 alleles detected a point mutation within the coding regions of flavanone-3-hydroxylase (F3H), which are predicted to cause a premature stop codon at different sites. The F3H locus completely cosegregated with the Ant17 position on the chromosome arm 2HL. Expression of the barley F3H gene was observed in pigmented tissues, but not in nonpigmented roots and stems. This result indicates that wheat F3H may be a promising new target locus for breeding white-grained lines with a practical level of preharvest sprouting resistance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Lei ZHU ◽  
Sheng-Xing WANG ◽  
Liang-Xia ZHAO ◽  
De-Xin ZHANG ◽  
Jian-Bang HU ◽  
...  

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 997
Author(s):  
Tatsuro Suzuki ◽  
Takahiro Hara ◽  
Kenjiro Katsu

Buckwheat is recognized as an important traditional crop and supports local economies in several regions around the world. Buckwheat is used, for example, as a cereal grain, noodle and bread. In addition, buckwheat is also used as a sprout or a young seedling. For these foods, sprouting is an important characteristic that affects food quality. For foods made from buckwheat flour, pre-harvest sprouting may decrease yield, which also leads to the deterioration of noodle quality. Breeding buckwheat that is resistant to pre-harvest sprouting is therefore required. Germination and subsequent growth are also important characteristics of the quality of sprouts. Although buckwheat sprouts are the focus because they contain many functional compounds, such as rutin, several problems have been noted, such as thin hypocotyls and husks remaining on sprouts. To date, several new varieties have been developed to resolve these quality issues. In this review, we summarize and introduce research on the breeding of buckwheat related to quality, sprouting and subsequent sprout growth.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyi Wang ◽  
Hui Liu ◽  
Kadambot H. M. Siddique ◽  
Guijun Yan

Abstract Background Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) in wheat can cause severe damage to both grain yield and quality. Resistance to PHS is a quantitative trait controlled by many genes located across all 21 wheat chromosomes. The study targeted a large-effect quantitative trait locus (QTL) QPhs.ccsu-3A.1 for PHS resistance using several sets previously developed near-isogenic lines (NILs). Two pairs of NILs with highly significant phenotypic differences between the isolines were examined by RNA sequencing for their transcriptomic profiles on developing seeds at 15, 25 and 35 days after pollination (DAP) to identify candidate genes underlying the QTL and elucidate gene effects on PHS resistance. At each DAP, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the isolines were investigated. Results Gene ontology and KEGG pathway enrichment analyses of key DEGs suggested that six candidate genes underlie QPhs.ccsu-3A.1 responsible for PHS resistance in wheat. Candidate gene expression was further validated by quantitative RT-PCR. Within the targeted QTL interval, 16 genetic variants including five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 11 indels showed consistent polymorphism between resistant and susceptible isolines. Conclusions The targeted QTL is confirmed to harbor core genes related to hormone signaling pathways that can be exploited as a key genomic region for marker-assisted selection. The candidate genes and SNP/indel markers detected in this study are valuable resources for understanding the mechanism of PHS resistance and for marker-assisted breeding of the trait in wheat.


1984 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ Mares

Germinability in harvest-mature wheat grain showed a marked dependence on temperature. The optimum temperature for the complete germination of all grains ranged from 20�C for the non-dormant variety, Timgalen, to 10�C for the strongly dormant red wheat RL 4137, whereas the optimum in terms of the shortest lag period ranged from 25� to 15�C for the same varieties. Germinability gradually increased during post-harvest storage and, for after-ripened grain, the optimum temperature for both complete germination and shortest lag period were greater than 30�C. Germinability could also be increased by pre-treating imbibing grains at temperatures of 5�, 10� or in some cases 15�C. This treatment was only effective for grain at moisture contents >25% (dry weight) and the effect was not reversed by redesiccation. The pre-treatment temperature required for maximum germinability decreased with increasing levels of grain dormancy. Complete removal of dormancy required a pre-treatment period of c. 48 h; however, lesser periods gave the shortest lag period in the case of the dormant varieties. The implications of these results for the utilization of dormancy in the development of preharvest sprouting damage tolerant varieties and their subsequent use in practice are discussed.


Euphytica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. B. Biddulph ◽  
D. J. Mares ◽  
J. A. Plummer ◽  
T. L. Setter

2005 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Liang Jiang ◽  
Shihe Xiao

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubing Liu ◽  
Guihua Bai ◽  
Shibin Cai ◽  
Cuixia Chen

2011 ◽  
Vol 193 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Barrero ◽  
John V. Jacobsen ◽  
Mark J. Talbot ◽  
Rosemary G. White ◽  
Stephen M. Swain ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 466-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Kato ◽  
Wakako Maruyama-Funatsuki ◽  
Mikiko Yanaka ◽  
Yusuke Ban ◽  
Kanenori Takata

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