Discovery of stripe rust resistance with incomplete dominance in wild emmer wheat using bulked segregant analysis sequencing

Valentyna Klymiuk, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Krystalee Wiebe, Jennifer Ens, Andrii Fatiukha, Liubov Govta, Tzion Fahima, Curtis J. Pozniak

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Abstract

Durable crop disease resistance is an essential component of global food security. Continuous pathogen evolution leads to a breakdown of resistance and there is a pressing need to characterize new resistance genes for use in plant breeding. Here we identified an accession of wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), PI 487260, that is highly resistant to multiple stripe rust isolates. Genetic analysis revealed resistance was conferred by a single, incompletely dominant gene designated as Yr84. Through bulked segregant analysis sequencing (BSA-Seq) we identified a 52.7 Mb resistance-associated interval on chromosome 1BS. Detected variants were used to design genetic markers for recombinant screening, further refining the interval of Yr84 to a 2.3–3.3 Mb in tetraploid wheat genomes. This interval contains 34 candidate genes encoding for protein domains involved in disease resistance responses. Furthermore, KASP markers closely-linked to Yr84 were developed to facilitate marker-assisted selection for rust resistance breeding.

Original languageEnglish
Article number826
JournalCommunications Biology
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2022

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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