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Quantitative trait loci for resistance to fusarium head blight in a Chinese wheat landrace Haiyanzhong

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Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat causes not only significant reduction in grain yield and end-use quality, but also the contamination of the grain with mycotoxins that are detrimental to human and animal health after consumption of infected grain. Growing resistant varieties is an effective approach to minimize the FHB damage. The Chinese wheat landrace Haiyanzhong (HYZ) shows a high level of resistance to FHB. To identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) that contribute to FHB resistance in HYZ, 136 recombinant inbred lines (RIL) were developed from a cross of HYZ and Wheaton, a hard spring wheat cultivar from the USA. The RIL and their parents were evaluated for percentage of scabbed spikelets (PSS) in both greenhouse and field environments. Five QTL were detected for FHB resistance in HYZ with one major QTL on 7DL. The 7DL QTL peaked at SSR marker Xwmc121, which is flanked by the SSR markers Xcfd46 and Xwmc702. This QTL explained 20.4–22.6% of the phenotypic variance in individual greenhouse experiments and 15.9% in a field experiment. Four other minor QTL on 6BS (two QTL), 5AS and 1AS each explained less than 10% of the phenotypic variance in individual experiments. HYZ carried the favorable alleles associated with FHB resistance at the QTL on 7DL, 6BS and 5AS, and the unfavorable allele at the QTL on 1AS. The major QTL on 7D can be used to improve the FHB resistance in wheat breeding programs and add diversity to the FHB resistance gene pool.

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This project is partly funded by US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative and by the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. BK2010312). Mention of trade names or commercial products in this article is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Contribution No. 11-180-J from the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, KS, USA.

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  1. Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China

    Tao Li & Shiliang Gu

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Tao Li

  3. USDA-ARS Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Guihua Bai

  4. Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Shuangye Wu

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Li, T., Bai, G., Wu, S. et al. Quantitative trait loci for resistance to fusarium head blight in a Chinese wheat landrace Haiyanzhong. Theor Appl Genet 122, 1497–1502 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-011-1549-0

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