QTL Mapping for Important Agronomic Traits in Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat Derived from Aegiliops tauschii ssp. tauschii》.pdf

Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2014, 13(9): 1835-1844 September 2014 RESEARCH ARTICLE QTL Mapping for Important Agronomic Traits in Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat Derived from Aegiliops tauschii ssp. tauschii 1, 2 1 1 1 1 1 YU Ma , CHEN Guo-yue , ZHANG Lian-quan , LIU Ya-xi , LIU Deng-cai , WANG Ji-rui , PU Zhi- 3 1 1 1 4 1 en , ZHANG Li , LAN Xiu-jin , WEI Yu-ming , LIU Chun-ji and ZHENG You-liang 1 Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P.R.China 2 School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, P.R.China 3 Agronomy College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P.R.China 4 CSIRO Plant Industry, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia Abstract Aegiliops tauschii is classified into two subspecies: Ae. tauschii ssp. tauschii and Ae. tauschii ssp. strangulata. Novel genetic variations exist in Ae. tauschii ssp. tauschii that can be utilized in wheat improvement. We synthesized a hexaploid wheat genotype (SHW-L1) by crossing an Ae. tauschii ssp. tauschii accession (AS60) with a tetraploid wheat genotype (AS2255). A population consisting of 171 F recombinant inbred lines was developed from SHW-L1 and Chuanmai 32 to identify QTLs 8 associated with agronomic traits. A new genetic map with high density was constructed and used to detect the QTLs for heading date, kernel width, spike length, spikelet number, and thousand kernel weight. A total of 30 putative QTLs were identified for five investigated traits. Thirteen QTLs were located on D genomes of SHW-L1, si