Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal Footprints of Divergent Selection and Drought Adaptive Traits in Synthetic-Derived Wheats

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第一作者： Afzal, Fakiha

作者： Afzal, Fakiha;Gul, Alvina;Li, Huihui;Xia, Xianchun;He, Zhonghu;Rasheed, Awais;Li, Huihui;He, Zhonghu;Rasheed, Awais;Gul, Alvina;Subhani, Abid;Ali, Ahmad;Mujeeb-Kazi, Abdul;Ogbonnaya, Francis;Trethowan, Richard;Rasheed, Awais

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关键词： synthetic-derived wheats (SYN-DER); genome-wide association studies (GWAS); single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); haplotype analysis; selective sweeps

期刊名称：G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS （ 影响因子：3.154； 五年影响因子：3.369 ）

ISSN： 2160-1836

年卷期： 2019 年 9 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Crop-wild introgressions have long been exploited without knowing the favorable recombination points. Synthetic hexaploid wheats are one of the most exploited genetic resources for bread wheat improvement. However, despite some QTL with major effects, much less is known about genomewide patterns of introgressions and their effects on phenotypes. We used two genome-wide association approaches: SNP-GWAS and haplotype-GWAS to identify SNPs and haplotypes associated with productivity under water-limited conditions in a synthetic-derived wheat (SYN-DER) population. Haplotype-GWAS further enriched and identified 20 more genomic regions associated with drought adaptability that did not overlap with SNP-GWAS. Since GWAS is biased to the phenotypes in the study and may fail to detect important genetic diversity during breeding, we used five complementary analytical approaches (t-test, Tajima's D, nucleotide diversity (p), Fst, and EigenGWAS) to identify divergent selections in SYN-DER compared to modern bread wheat. These approaches consistently pinpointed 89 'selective sweeps', out of which 30 selection loci were identified on D-genome. These key selections co-localized with important functional genes of adaptive traits such as TaElf3-D1 (1D) for earliness per se (Eps), TaCKX-D1 (3D), TaGS1a (6D) and TaGS-D1 (7D) for grain size, weight and morphology, TaCwi-D1 (5D) influencing drought tolerance, and Vrn-D3 (7D) for vernalization. Furthermore, 55 SNPs and 23 haplotypes of agronomic and physiological importance such as grain yield, relative water content and thousand grain weight in SYN-DER, were among the top 5% of divergent selections contributed by synthetic hexaploid wheats. These divergent selections associated with improved agronomic performance carry new alleles that have been introduced to wheat. Our results demonstrated that GWAS and selection sweep analyses are powerful approaches for investigating favorable introgressions under strong selection pressure and the use of crop-wild hybridization to assist the improvement of wheat yield and productivity under moisture limiting environments.

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