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Influence of Stem Solidness on Stem Strength and Stem Solidness Associated QTLs in Bread Wheat

PAN Ting1,**,HU Wen-Jing2,**,LI Dong-Sheng2,CHENG Xiao-Ming2,WU Rong-Lin2,CHENG Shun-He1,2,*   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; 2 Institute of Agriculture Sciences of the Lixiahe District / Branch of National Wheat Improvement Center, Yangzhou 225007, China
  • Received:2016-03-10 Revised:2016-09-18 Online:2017-01-12 Published:2016-10-09
  • Contact: 程顺和, E-mail:13905273926@126.com**同等贡献(Contributed equally to this work) E-mail:862430412@qq.com
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    This study was supported by the China Agriculture Research System(CARS-03-03B, CARS-3-2-11) and theIndependent Innovation Fundfor Agricultural Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province [CX(13)2022].

Abstract:

Improving stem strength is an important way to increase lodging resistance of wheat. Solid stem traits, including thickness-diameter ratio of culm, stem diameter, culm wall thickness and pith diameter, are the main targets for improvement of stem strength in wheat. In the present study, an F2 population and F2:3 families derived from the cross N18×WYSG wereused to study the influence of stem solidness on stem strength and to identify QTLs for solidnessrelated traits. The thickness-diameter ratio of culm, stem diameter, culm wall thickness and pith diameter were significantly correlated with stem strength. By using composite interval mapping (CIM), a total of 23 QTLs for the five traitswere detected on chromosomes 1B, 3B, 4A, 4B and 5A. Phenotypic variations explained by individual QTL ranged from 3.5% to 44.0%. Pleiotropic QTLs were found on chromosomes 3B (gwm547gwm247),4A (wmc718wmc468) and 5A (gwm156gwm443), all contributing very high phenotypic variations. The reliability of the marker gwm247was confirmed using 24 F7 lines derived from the N13 (hollow stem) × WYSG (solid stem) cross. The markers linked to major QTLs could be valuable in wheat breeding for lodging resistance with marker assisted selection technology.

Key words: Wheat, Stem strength, Stem solidness, Quantitative trait loci

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