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Genome-Wide Association Studies for Pasmo Resistance in Flax (Linum Usitatissimum L.)

Version 1 : Received: 7 November 2018 / Approved: 14 November 2018 / Online: 14 November 2018 (10:45:20 CET)

How to cite: He, L.; Xiao, J.; Rashid, K.Y.; Yao, Z.; Li, P.; Jia, G.; Wang, X.; Cloutier, S.; You, F. Genome-Wide Association Studies for Pasmo Resistance in Flax (Linum Usitatissimum L.). Preprints 2018, 2018110336. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0336.v1 He, L.; Xiao, J.; Rashid, K.Y.; Yao, Z.; Li, P.; Jia, G.; Wang, X.; Cloutier, S.; You, F. Genome-Wide Association Studies for Pasmo Resistance in Flax (Linum Usitatissimum L.). Preprints 2018, 2018110336. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0336.v1

Abstract

Pasmo is one of the most widespread diseases threatening flax production. To identify genetic regions associated with pasmo resistance (PR), a genome-wide association study was performed on 370 accessions from the flax core collection. Evaluation of pasmo severity was performed in the field from 2012 to 2016 in Morden, MB, Canada. Genotyping-by-sequencing has identified 258,873 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) distributed on all 15 flax chromosomes. Marker-trait associations were identified using ten different statistical models. A total of 692 unique quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) associated with 500 putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) were detected from six phenotypic PR datasets (five individual years and average across years). Different QTNs were identified with various statistical models and from individual PR datasets, indicative of the complementation between analytical methods and/or genotype × environment interactions of the QTL effects. The single-locus models tended to identify large-effect QTNs while the multi-loci models were able to detect QTNs with smaller effects. Among the putative QTL, 67 had large effects (3-23%), were stable across all datasets and explained 32-64% of the total variation for PR in the various datasets. Forty-five of these QTL spanned 85 resistance gene analogs including a large toll interleukin receptor, nucleotide-binding site, leucine-rich repeat (TNL) type gene cluster on chromosome 8. The number of positive effect QTL (NPQTL) in accessions was significantly correlated with PR (R2=0.55), suggesting additive effects. NPQTL was also significantly associated with morphotype (R2=0.52) and major positive effect QTL were present in the fiber type accessions. The 67 large effect QTL are suited for marker-assisted selection and the 500 QTL for effective genomic prediction in PR molecular breeding.

Keywords

pasmo resistance, pasmo severity, quantitative trait loci (QTL), quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs), fiber, linseed, core collection, flax, Linum usitatissimum

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences

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