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Capturing wheat phenotypes at the genome level
(2022) Hussain, Babar; Akpınar, Bala A.; Alaux, Michael; Algharib, Ahmed M.; Sehgal, Deepmala; Ali, Zulfiqar; Aradottir, Gudbjorg I.; Batley, Jacqueline; Bellec, Arnaud; Bentley, Alison R.; Cagirici, Halise B.; Cattivelli, Luigi; Choulet, Fred; Cockram, James; Desiderio, Francesca; Devaux, Pierre; Dogramaci, Munevver; Dorado, Gabriel; Dreisigacker, Susanne; Edwards, David; El-Hassouni, Khaoula; Eversole, Kellye; Fahima, Tzion; Figueroa, Melania; Gálvez, Sergio; Gill, Kulvinder S.; Govta, Liubov; Gul, Alvina; Hensel, Goetz; Hernandez, Pilar; Crespo-Herrera, Leonardo Abdiel; Ibrahim, Amir; Kilian, Benjamin; Korzun, Viktor; Krugman, Tamar; Li, Yinghui; Liu, Shuyu; Mahmoud, Amer F.; Morgounov, Alexey; Muslu, Tugdem; Naseer, Faiza; Ordon, Frank; Paux, Etienne; Perovic, Dragan; Reddy, Gadi V. P.; Reif, Jochen Christoph; Reynolds, Matthew; Roychowdhury, Rajib; Rudd, Jackie; Sen, Taner Z.; Sukumaran, Sivakumar; Ozdemir, Bahar Sogutmaz; Tiwari, Vijay Kumar; Ullah, Naimat; Unver, Turgay; Yazar, Selami; Appels, Rudi; Budak, Hikmet
Recent technological advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have dramatically reduced the cost of DNA sequencing, allowing species with large and complex genomes to be sequenced. Although bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the world’s most important food crops, efficient exploitation of molecular marker-assisted breeding approaches has lagged behind that achieved in other crop species, due to its large polyploid genome. However, an international public–private effort spanning 9 years reported over 65% draft genome of bread wheat in 2014, and finally, after more than a decade culminated in the release of a gold-standard, fully annotated reference wheat-genome assembly in 2018. Shortly thereafter, in 2020, the genome of assemblies of additional 15 global wheat accessions was released. As a result, wheat has now entered into the pan-genomic era, where basic resources can be efficiently exploited. Wheat genotyping with a few hundred markers has been replaced by genotyping arrays, capable of characterizing hundreds of wheat lines, using thousands of markers, providing fast, relatively inexpensive, and reliable data for exploitation in wheat breeding. These advances have opened up new opportunities for marker-assisted selection (MAS) and genomic selection (GS) in wheat. Herein, we review the advances and perspectives in wheat genetics and genomics, with a focus on key traits, including grain yield, yield-related traits, end-use quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. We also focus on reported candidate genes cloned and linked to traits of interest. Furthermore, we report on the improvement in the aforementioned quantitative traits, through the use of (i) clustered regularly interspaced short-palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9)-mediated gene-editing and (ii) positional cloning methods, and of genomic selection. Finally, we examine the utilization of genomics for the next-generation wheat breeding, providing a practical example of using in silico bioinformatics tools that are based on the wheat reference-genome sequence.
Correction: Miedaner et al. Effective pollen-fertility restoration is the basis of hybrid rye Production and ergot mitigation. Plants 2022, 11, 1115
(2023) Miedaner, Thomas; Korzun, Viktor; Wilde, Peer
Effective pollen-fertility restoration is the basis of hybrid rye production and ergot mitigation
(2022) Miedaner, Thomas; Korzun, Viktor; Wilde, Peer
Hybrid rye breeding leads to considerably higher grain yield and a higher revenue to the farmer. The basis of hybrid seed production is the CMS-inducing Pampa (P) cytoplasm derived from an Argentinean landrace and restorer-to-fertility (Rf) genes. European sources show an oligogenic inheritance, with major and minor Rf genes, and mostly result in low-to-moderate pollen-fertility levels. This results in higher susceptibility to ergot (Claviceps purpurea) because rye pollen and ergot spores are in strong competition for the unfertilized stigma. Rf genes from non-adapted Iranian primitive rye and old Argentinean cultivars proved to be most effective. The major Rf gene in these sources was localized on chromosome 4RL, which is also a hotspot of restoration in other Triticeae. Marker-based introgression into elite rye materials led to a yield penalty and taller progenies. The Rfp1 gene of IRAN IX was fine-mapped, and two linked genes of equal effects were detected. Commercial hybrids with this gene showed a similar low ergot infection when compared with population cultivars. The task of the future is to co-adapt these exotic Rfp genes to European elite gene pools by genomic-assisted breeding.