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Habtamu Ayalew1,2, Joshua D Anderson1, Nick Krom1, Yuhong Tang1, Twain J Butler1, Nidhi Rawat3, Vijay Tiwari3, Xue-Feng Ma1,4.
Abstract
Triticale, a hybrid species between wheat and rye, is one of the newest additions to the plant kingdom with a very short history of improvement. It has very limited genomic resources because of its large and complex genome. Objectives of this study were to generate dense marker data, understand genetic diversity, population structure, linkage disequilibrium (LD), and estimate accuracies of commonly used genomic selection (GS) models on forage yield of triticale. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), using PstI and MspI restriction enzymes for reducing genome complexity, was performed on a triticale diversity panel (n = 289). After filtering for biallelic loci with more than 70% genome coverage, and minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.05, de novo variant calling identified 16,378 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. Sequences of these variants were mapped to wheat and rye reference genomes to infer their homologous groups and chromosome positions. About 45% (7430), and 58% (9500) of the de novo identified SNPs were mapped to the wheat and rye reference genomes, respectively. Interestingly, 28.9% (2151) of the 7430 SNPs were mapped to the D genome of hexaploid wheat, indicating substantial substitution of the R genome with D genome in cultivated triticale. About 27% of marker pairs were in significant LD with an average r2 > 0.18 (P < 0.05). Genome-wide LD declined rapidly to r2 < 0.1 beyond 10 kb physical distance. The three sub-genomes (A, B, and R) showed comparable LD decay patterns. Genetic diversity and population structure analyses identified five distinct clusters. Genotype grouping did not follow prior winter vs spring-type classification. However, one of the clusters was largely dominated by winter triticale. GS accuracies were estimated for forage yield using three commonly used models with different training population sizes and marker densities. GS accuracy increased with increasing training population size while gain in accuracy tended to plateau with marker densities of 2000 SNPs or more. Average GS accuracy was about 0.52, indicating the potential of using GS in triticale forage yield improvement.Entities:
Keywords: genomic selection (GS); genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS); linkage disequilibrium (LD); population genetics; triticale
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Year: 2022 PMID: 34897452 PMCID: PMC9210314 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab413
Source DB: PubMed Journal: G3 (Bethesda) ISSN: 2160-1836 Impact factor: 3.542
Figure 1Genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay plot in hexaploid triticale. LD, measured as r2 between pairs of polymorphic sites, is plotted against physical distance (bp) between the sites. LD decayed to r2 < 0.1 beyond 10-kb distance.
Figure 2The first three principal components, (A) for PC1 vs PC2 and (B) for PC1 vs PC3, explained 19% variation of the population. Cluster numbers were based on the k-means output. Each cluster was admixture of both winter and spring types.
Figure 3Discriminant analysis of principal components of the triticale panel. (A) The optimal number of k-means was determined using BIC relative to the numbers of clusters (k) tested. (B) Scatter plot of DAPCs showed well-separated clusters through maximizing variation among groups and minimizing variation within groups. The main figure shows the relative scatter of the five clusters, in which each dot represents a unique genotype. The PCA eigenvalue inset (bottom right) indicated that about 95% of variation was captured by using 200 PCs.
Figure 4Genomic selection modeling of forage yield of the population. Genomic selection accuracy as a function of training population size when 7000 markers were used (A), and marker density when training population size was 200 (B). Scatterplots showing correlations between the observed (PEBV) and the predicted values (GEBV) of forage yield using the three models (C–E). The shaded area shows the 95% confidence interval of the correlation line (blue).