Genome-wide association study of eigenvectors provides genetic insights into selective breeding for tomato metabolites

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第一作者： Yang, Junwei

作者： Yang, Junwei;Liang, Bin;Zhang, Yuemei;Liu, Yun;Yang, Qinqin;Geng, Xiaolin;Lin, Tao;Wang, Shengyuan;Lin, Tao;Liu, Simiao;Liu, Simiao;Wu, Yaoyao;Zhu, Yingfang

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关键词： Tomato; EigenGWAS; Metabolites; Selection; SlCGT

期刊名称：BMC BIOLOGY （ 影响因子：7.364； 五年影响因子：8.641 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 20 卷 1 期

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摘要： Background Long-term domestication and intensive breeding of crop plants aim to establish traits desirable for human needs, and characteristics related to yield, disease resistance, and postharvest storage have traditionally received considerable attention. These processes have led also to negative consequences, as is the case of loss of variants controlling fruit quality, for instance in tomato. Tomato fruit quality is directly associated to metabolite content profiles; however, a full understanding of the genetics affecting metabolite content during tomato domestication and improvement has not been reached due to limitations of the single detection methods previously employed. Here, we aim to reach a broad understanding of changes in metabolite content using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with eigenvector decomposition (EigenGWAS) on tomato accessions. Results An EigenGWAS was performed on 331 tomato accessions using the first eigenvector generated from the genomic data as a "phenotype" to understand the changes in fruit metabolite content during breeding. Two independent gene sets were identified that affected fruit metabolites during domestication and improvement in consumer-preferred tomatoes. Furthermore, 57 candidate genes related to polyphenol and polyamine biosynthesis were discovered, and a major candidate gene chlorogenate: glucarate caffeoyltransferase (SlCGT) was identified, which affected the quality and diseases resistance of tomato fruit, revealing the domestication mechanism of polyphenols. Conclusions We identified gene sets that contributed to consumer liking during domestication and improvement of tomato. Our study reports novel evidence of selective sweeps and key metabolites controlled by multiple genes, increasing our understanding of the mechanisms of metabolites variation during those processes. It also supports a polygenic selection model for the application of tomato breeding.

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