Genome-Wide association studies for five forage quality-related traits in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)

Li, J. and Zhang, Y.W. and Chen, K.N. and Wang, C. and etl, . (2018) Genome-Wide association studies for five forage quality-related traits in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.). Frontiers in Plant Science, 9. pp. 1-8.

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Abstract

Understanding the genetic function of the forage quality-related traits, including crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), hemicellulose (HC), and cellulose (CL) contents, is essential for the identification of forage quality genes and selection of effective molecular markers in sorghum. In this study, we genotyped 245 sorghum accessions by 85,585 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and obtained the phenotypic data from four environments. The SNPs and phenotypic data were applied to multi-locus genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with the mrMLM software. A total of 42 SNPs were identified to be associated with the five forage quality-related traits. Moreover, three and two quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) were simultaneously detected among them by three and two multi-locus methods, respectively. One QTN on chromosome 5 was found to be associated simultaneously with CP, NDF, and ADF. Furthermore, 3, 2, 2, 5, and 2 candidate genes were identified to be responsible for CP, NDF, ADF, HC, and CL contents, respectively. These results provided insightful information of the forage quality-related traits and would facilitate the genetic improvement of sorghum forage quality in the future.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Sorghum, GWAS, forage quality-related traits, mrMLM, QTNs
Author Affiliation: College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Fengyang, China
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Divisions: Sorghum
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 24 Sep 2018 04:49
Last Modified: 24 Sep 2018 04:49
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15625

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