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Molecular mapping of resistance and aggressiveness in the cereal/Fusarium head blight pathosystem
(2016) Kalih, Rasha; Miedaner, Thomas
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most destructive fungal diseases in small-grain cereals worldwide causing significant yield losses and contamination of grain with mycotoxins e.g., deoxynivalenol (DON). This renders the grain unsuitable for human consumption and animal feeding. Exploring the genetic mechanism of FHB resistance is considered the key tool for modern cereal breeding activities. Triticale, the intergeneric hybrid between wheat and rye, is an important cereal crop in Poland and Germany. Resistance breeding using genetic mapping to identify quantitative-trait loci (QTL) associated with FHB resistance represents the best strategy for controlling the disease. In parallel, understanding the mechanism of aggressiveness and DON production of F. graminearum will be a significant contribution to improve FHB management. The objectives of the present work were (1) identification of QTL related to FHB resistance in triticale, together with the analysis of the correlation of FHB severity with other related traits such as plant height and heading stage, (2) correlation between DON production and FHB severity, (3) mapping of dwarfing gene Ddw1 in triticale and studying its effect on FHB resistance, plant height and heading stage, (4) detection of SNPs in candidate genes associated with aggressiveness and DON production of a large Fusarium graminearum population in bread wheat. To study the genetic architecture of FHB resistance in triticale, five doubled-haploid (DH) triticale populations with 120 to 200 progenies were successfully tested under field conditions by inoculation with Fusarium culmorum (FC46) in multiple environments. All genotypes were evaluated for FHB resistance, plant height and heading stage. DArT markers were used to genotype triticale populations. Significant genotypic variances (P<0.001) were observed for FHB severity in all populations combined with high heritability. Twenty-two QTLs for FHB resistance in triticale were reported with two to five QTL per population, thus confirming the quantitative inheritance of FHB resistance in triticale. The most prominent (R2 ≥ 35%) QTLs were located on chromosomes 6A, 3B, 4R, and 5R. QTLs for plant height and heading stage were also detected in our work, some of them were overlapping with QTLs for FHB resistance. Correlation between FHB severity, DON content and Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK) in triticale was studied in the population Lasko x Alamo. Significant genotypic variance was detected for all traits. However, low correlation between FHB severity and DON content (r=0.31) was found. Interestingly, correlation between FHB severity and FDK rating was considerably higher (r=0.57). For FHB severity, two QTLs were detected in this population. A QTL located on chromosome 2A with minor effect for FHB severity was also a common QTL for DON content and FDK rating and explained ≥34% of genotypic variance for these two traits. A second QTL on chromosome 5R was a major QTL but it has no effect on DON content or FDK rating. For analyzing the rye dwarfing gene Ddw1 derived from the father Pigmej, 199 (DH) progenies were genotyped with DArT markers and in addition with conserved ortholog set (COS) markers linked to the Ddw1 locus in rye. QTL analyses detected three, four, and six QTLs for FHB severity, plant height and heading stage, respectively. Two specific markers tightly linked with Ddw1 on rye chromosome 5R explained 48, 77, and 71 % of genotypic variation for FHB severity, plant height, and heading stage, respectively. This is strong evidence, that we indeed detected the rye gene Ddw1 in this triticale population. Another objective was to highlight the association between quantitative variation of aggressiveness and DON production of 152 F. graminearum isolates with single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers in seven candidate genes. One to three significant SNPs (P < 0.01 using cross-validation) were associated to FHB severity in four genes (i.e., Gmpk1, Mgv1, TRI6, and Erf2). For DON content, just one significant SNP was detected in the gene Mgv1 explaining 6.5% of the total genotypic variance. In conclusion, wide genetic variation in FHB resistance in triticale has been observed in five populations. QTL mapping analyses revealed twenty-two QTLs for FHB resistance derived from wheat and rye genomes. QTLs located on the rye genome were reported here for the first time and they are a new source for FHB resistance in triticale. In parallel, analysis of the diversity of four pathogenicity genes in F. graminearum is an important first step in inferring the genetic network of pathogenicity in this fungal pathogen.
Prospects of genomic selection for disease resistances in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
(2019) Grote, Cathérine Pauline; Miedaner, Thomas
Die Ziele dieser Arbeit waren (i) die erstmalige Evaluierung des Effekts des Zwerggens Rht24 auf FHB- und STB-Resistenzen, Wuchshöhe und Ährenschieben im Vergleich zum weit genutzten Locus Rht-D1, (ii) die Untersuchung des Potenzials der nichtadaptierten QTL Fhb1 und Fhb5 für die Entwicklung von Kurzstrohweizen, (iii) die Analyse der Vorhersagegenauigkeit von GS innerhalb und zwischen Familien durch die Anwendung der beiden Modelle RR-BLUP (ridge-regression best linear unbiased prediction) und wRR-BLUP (weighted RR-BLUP) und (iv) die Berechnung des Selektionsgewinns bzw. die Bestimmung der korrekt selektierten Top-10 %-Genotypen für FHB- und STB-Resistenzen durch GS. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie zeigten, dass das gibberellinsäuresensitive Zwerggen Rht24 auf Chromosom 6 die Wuchshöhe um durchschnittlich 8,96 cm senkte, ohne dabei die FHB- und STB-Resistenzen oder den Zeitpunkt des Ährenschiebens ungünstig zu beeinflussen. Demgegenüber senkte das weitläufig verwendete Allel Rht-D1b die FHB-Resistenz um durchschnittlich 10,05 Prozentpunkte in einer Winterweizenpopulation bestehend aus acht biparentalen Familien, die für diese Resistenzloci segregierten. Diese Arbeit hat zusätzlich aufgezeigt, dass die Resistenzallele von Fhb1 und Fhb5 die FHB-Anfälligkeit um 6,54 bzw. 11,33 Prozentpunkte reduzierten und somit bereits allein das nicht-adaptierte Allel Fhb5b in der Lage ist, den negativen Effekt von Rht-D1b auf die FHB-Resistenz im untersuchten Material auszugleichen. Das verdeutlicht, dass die Wahl der Zwerg- und Resistenzgene in Zuchtprogrammen, in denen FHB-Resistenz ein Selektionsmerkmal ist, von entscheidender Bedeutung ist. In dieser Studie wurde des Weiteren das Potenzial der GS innerhalb und zwischen Familien untersucht. Die Vorhersagegenauigkeiten innerhalb einer Familie waren für alle Zielmerkmale höher als die zwischen Familien und unterschieden sich zwischen den einzelnen Familien und Vorhersagekonstellationen. Die stärkere Gewichtung von signifikanten Markern durch das wRR-BLUP-Modell führte zu einer Verbesserung der Vorhersagegenauigkeit im Vergleich zum weit genutzten RR-BLUP-Modell, wenn einzelne Gene, wie Rht-D1, oder Major-QTL, wie Fhb5, vorhanden waren. In dieser Studie wurden die genomisch geschätzten Zuchtwerte (GEBVs) von 2.500 ungeprüften Genotypen bestimmt, basierend auf einer partiell verwandten Trainingspopulation von 1.120 Genotypen. Die 10 % FHB- und STB-resistentesten Linien und eine zufällige Stichprobe wurden unter Berücksichtigung der Wuchshöhe genomisch selektiert und phänotypisch in einem vierortigen Feldversuch evaluiert. Für die FHB-Resistenz wurde ein Selektionserfolg von 10,62 Prozentpunkten relativ zur zufällig selektierten Populationsstichprobe ermittelt. Die GS erhöhte die STB-Resistenz allerdings nur um 2,14 Prozentpunkte. Auch die Selektion von neuen Kreuzungseltern auf der Basis von GS erscheint nicht ausreichend zuverlässig, da nur 19 % der Top-10 %-Individuen korrekt selektiert wurden. Zusammenfassend stellt die GS ein wertvolles Werkzeug dar, um den Zuchtfortschritt für die komplex vererbte FHB-Resistenz über kürzere Zyklen und größere Populationen zu unterstützen. In Kombination mit der Nutzung geeigneter Zwerggene und des nicht adaptierten QTL Fhb5 kann dadurch eine Steigerung der FHB-Resistenz im Winterweizen erzielt werden.
Successful silencing of the mycotoxin synthesis gene TRI5 in fusarium culmorum and observation of reduced virulence in VIGS and SIGS experiments
(2022) Tretiakova, Polina; Voegele, Ralf Thomas; Soloviev, Alexander; Link, Tobias Immanuel
Crops constantly experience various biotic stresses during their life cycle, and Fusarium spp. remain one of the most serious groups of pathogens affecting plants. The ability to manipulate the expression of certain microorganism genes via RNAi creates the opportunity for new-generation dsRNA-based preparations to control a large number of diseases. In this study, we applied virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS), and spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) to silence the trichothecene-producing gene TRI5 in F. culmorum as a means to reduce its aggressiveness on spring wheat. Treatment of the fungus with dsTRI5RNA in vitro reduced deoxynivalenol (DON) and 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3-A-DON) accumulations by 53–85% and 61–87%, respectively, and reduced TRI5 expression by 84–97%. VIGS decreased the proportion of infected wheat spikelets by 73%, but upregulation was observed for TRI5. SIGS on wheat leaves and ears using certain dsTRI5RNA amounts negatively impacted F. culmorum growth. However, when performing in vivo analyses of TRI5 mRNA levels, the upregulation of the gene was determined in the variants where fungal colonization was restricted, suggesting a compensatory reaction of the pathogen to RNAi.