Journal article
Linkage drag constrains the roots of modern wheat
Plant, Cell & Environment, Vol.40(5), pp.717-725
2017
Abstract
Roots, the hidden half of crop plants, are essential for resource acquisition. However, knowledge about the genetic control of below-ground plant development in wheat, one of the most important small-grain crops in the world, is very limited. The molecular interactions connecting root and shoot development and growth, and thus modulating the plant's demand for water and nutrients along with its ability to access them, are largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that linkage drag in European bread wheat, driven by strong selection for a haplotype variant controlling heading date, has eliminated a specific combination of two flanking, highly conserved haplotype variants whose interaction confers increased root biomass. Reversing this inadvertent consequence of selection could recover root diversity that may prove essential for future food production in fluctuating environments. Highly conserved synteny to rice across this chromosome segment suggests that adaptive selection has shaped the diversity landscape of this locus across different, globally important cereal crops. By mining wheat gene expression data, we identified root-expressed genes within the region of interest that could help breeders to select positive variants adapted to specific target soil environments.
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- Title
- Linkage drag constrains the roots of modern wheat
- Authors/Creators
- K.P. Voss-Fels (Author/Creator)L. Qian (Author/Creator) - Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenS. Parra-Londono (Author/Creator) - University of RostockR. Uptmoor (Author/Creator) - University of RostockM. Frisch (Author/Creator) - Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenG. Keeble-Gagnère (Author/Creator) - Agriculture VictoriaR. Appels (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityR.J. Snowdon (Author/Creator) - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
- Publication Details
- Plant, Cell & Environment, Vol.40(5), pp.717-725
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Identifiers
- 991005545111207891
- Copyright
- © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Murdoch Affiliation
- State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
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- 3.4 Crop Science
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- Plant & Animal Science