Multi-environment trials represent a highly valuable tool for the identification of the genetic bases of crop yield potential and stress adaptation. A Diversity Array Technology®-based barley map has been developed in the ‘Nure’ × ‘Tremois’ biparental Doubled Haploid population, harbouring the genomic position of a gene set with a putative role in the regulation of flowering time and abiotic stress response in barley. The population has been evaluated in eighteen location-by-year combinations across the Mediterranean basin. QTL mapping identified several genomic regions responsible for barley adaptation to Mediterranean conditions in terms of phenology, grain yield and yield component traits. The most frequently detected yield QTL had the early flowering HvCEN_EPS2 locus (chromosome 2H) as peak marker, showing a positive effect from the early winter parent ‘Nure’ in eight field trials, and explaining up to 45.8 % of the observed variance for grain yield. The HvBM5A_VRN-H1 locus on chromosome 5H and the genomic region possibly corresponding to PPD-H2 on chromosome 1H were significantly associated to grain yield in five and three locations, respectively. Environment-specific QTLs for grain yield, and clusters of yield component QTLs not related to phenology and or developmental genes (e.g. on chromosome 4H, BIN_09) were observed as well. The results of this work provide a valuable source of knowledge and tools for both explaining the genetic bases of barley yield adaptation across the Mediterranean basin, and using QTL-associated markers for MAS pre-breeding and breeding programmes.

QTLs for barley yield adaptation to Mediterranean environments in the ‘Nure’ × ‘Tremois’ biparental population / Tondelli, A.; Francia, Enrico; A., Visioni; J., Comadran; A. M., Mastrangelo; T., Akar; A., Al Yassin; S., Ceccarelli; S., Grando; A., Benbelkacem; F. A., van Eeuwijk; W. T. B., Thomas; A. M., Stanca; I., Romagosa; Pecchioni, Nicola. - In: EUPHYTICA. - ISSN 0014-2336. - STAMPA. - 197:1(2014), pp. 73-86. [10.1007/s10681-013-1053-5]

QTLs for barley yield adaptation to Mediterranean environments in the ‘Nure’ × ‘Tremois’ biparental population

FRANCIA, Enrico;PECCHIONI, Nicola
2014

Abstract

Multi-environment trials represent a highly valuable tool for the identification of the genetic bases of crop yield potential and stress adaptation. A Diversity Array Technology®-based barley map has been developed in the ‘Nure’ × ‘Tremois’ biparental Doubled Haploid population, harbouring the genomic position of a gene set with a putative role in the regulation of flowering time and abiotic stress response in barley. The population has been evaluated in eighteen location-by-year combinations across the Mediterranean basin. QTL mapping identified several genomic regions responsible for barley adaptation to Mediterranean conditions in terms of phenology, grain yield and yield component traits. The most frequently detected yield QTL had the early flowering HvCEN_EPS2 locus (chromosome 2H) as peak marker, showing a positive effect from the early winter parent ‘Nure’ in eight field trials, and explaining up to 45.8 % of the observed variance for grain yield. The HvBM5A_VRN-H1 locus on chromosome 5H and the genomic region possibly corresponding to PPD-H2 on chromosome 1H were significantly associated to grain yield in five and three locations, respectively. Environment-specific QTLs for grain yield, and clusters of yield component QTLs not related to phenology and or developmental genes (e.g. on chromosome 4H, BIN_09) were observed as well. The results of this work provide a valuable source of knowledge and tools for both explaining the genetic bases of barley yield adaptation across the Mediterranean basin, and using QTL-associated markers for MAS pre-breeding and breeding programmes.
2014
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QTLs for barley yield adaptation to Mediterranean environments in the ‘Nure’ × ‘Tremois’ biparental population / Tondelli, A.; Francia, Enrico; A., Visioni; J., Comadran; A. M., Mastrangelo; T., Akar; A., Al Yassin; S., Ceccarelli; S., Grando; A., Benbelkacem; F. A., van Eeuwijk; W. T. B., Thomas; A. M., Stanca; I., Romagosa; Pecchioni, Nicola. - In: EUPHYTICA. - ISSN 0014-2336. - STAMPA. - 197:1(2014), pp. 73-86. [10.1007/s10681-013-1053-5]
Tondelli, A.; Francia, Enrico; A., Visioni; J., Comadran; A. M., Mastrangelo; T., Akar; A., Al Yassin; S., Ceccarelli; S., Grando; A., Benbelkacem; F....espandi
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