| Literature DB >> 28880954 |
Carmen Santos1, Charles Dana Nelson2,3, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva4,5, Helena Machado1, José Gomes-Laranjo6, Rita Lourenço Costa1,7.
Abstract
The Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata) carries resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi, the destructive and widespread oomycete causing ink disease. The European chestnut (Castanea sativa), carrying little to no disease resistance, is currently threatened by the presence of the oomycete pathogen in forests, orchards and nurseries. Determining the genetic basis of P. cinnamomi resistance, for further selection of molecular markers and candidate genes, is a prominent issue for implementation of marker assisted selection in the breeding programs for resistance. In this study, the first interspecific genetic linkage map of C. sativa x C. crenata allowed the detection of QTLs for P. cinnamomi resistance. The genetic map was constructed using two independent, control-cross mapping populations. Chestnut populations were genotyped using 452 microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism molecular markers derived from the available chestnut transcriptomes. The consensus genetic map spans 498,9 cM and contains 217 markers mapped with an average interval of 2.3 cM. For QTL analyses, the progression rate of P. cinnamomi lesions in excised shoots inoculated was used as the phenotypic metric. Using non-parametric and composite interval mapping approaches, two QTLs were identified for ink disease resistance, distributed in two linkage groups: E and K. The presence of QTLs located in linkage group E regarding P. cinnamomi resistance is consistent with a previous preliminary study developed in American x Chinese chestnut populations, suggesting the presence of common P. cinnamomi defense mechanisms across species. Results presented here extend the genomic resources of Castanea genus providing potential tools to assist the ongoing and future chestnut breeding programs.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28880954 PMCID: PMC5589223 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184381
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Number of individuals genotyped and markers used in this study.
| Individuals genotyped and markers used | SxCpopulation | BxCpopulation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 81 | 133 | |
| 52 | 81 | 133 | |
| 26 | 0 | 26 | |
| 435 | 92 | 452 | |
| 146 | 92 | 180 | |
| 272 | 0 | 272 |
Number of individuals from Castanea sativa (cultivar Aveleira) x C. crenata2 (SxC) and C. sativa (cultivar Bária) x C. crenata1 (BC) crosses and number of polymorphic markers (SSRs and SNPs) used for genetic map construction.
Fig 1C. sativa x C. crenata interspecific consensus genetic map contains 217 markers (SSRs and SNPs) mapped on twelve linkage groups (LGs).
Marker positions on LGs were assigned to reference map LGs [11], by using the common markers mapped on both genetic maps (in blue).
Results of MQM mapping for QTLs conferring resistance to P. cinnamomi in a C. sativa x C. crenata population.
| Peak marker | Associated markers | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTL | LG | Interval (cM) | R2a (%) | Marker | LOD score | Position (cM)b | K-W testc | Putative function | Marker | LOD score | Position (cM)b | K-W testc | Putative function |
| E | 25.1–33.1 | 8.8–9.1 | CC_3129_774 | 3.99 | 33.1 | ***** | Hormone signalling | CmSNP00773E | 3.99 | 33.1 | ***** | PAF1 protein | |
| CC_48142_849 | 3.71 | 29.0 | **** | Resistance protein NDR1/HIN1-Like protein 3 | |||||||||
| CmSNP00522E | 3.71 | 29.0 | **** | Transport of phospholipids | |||||||||
| AC_32934_470 | 3.80 | 25.1 | ***** | Zinc finger, PHD-type | |||||||||
| K | 8.4–9.5 | 13.3–13.4 | AC_36335_960 | 4.37 | 8.4 | **** | Contains a Myb/SANT-like domain | CC_46475_1222 | 4.36 | 8.8 | **** | Uncharacterized | |
| CC_6279_2669 | 3.95 | 9.5 | ** | Cellulose synthase | |||||||||
| AC_14650_453 | 3.94 | 9.5 | **** | Ribosomal_L6_N | |||||||||
LOD score, position in the LG, Kruskal-Wallis test and putative function of transcript sequences used for marker development are presented for the marker at the LOD peak and for the other associated markers. Asterisks represents the significance levels obtained by Kruskal-Wallis test: ** = 0.05, **** = 0.005 and ***** = 0.001.
Fig 2QTLs detected on the linkage groups of the C. sativa x C. crenata consensus genetic map by multiple QTL mapping (MQM) for P. cinnamomi resistance.
QTLs are represented by black boxes. Asterisks represents the significance levels obtained by Kruskal-Wallis test: ** = 0.05, **** = 0.005 and ***** = 0.001.