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Residual Heterozygosity and Epistatic Interactions Underlie the Complex Genetic Architecture of Yield in Diploid Potato.

ABSTRACT: Deconvolution of the genetic architecture underlying yield is critical for understanding bases of genetic gain in species of agronomic importance. To dissect the genetic components of yield in potato, we adopted a reference-based recombination map composed of four segregating alleles from an interspecific pseudotestcross F1 potato population (n = 90). Approximately 1.5 million short nucleotide variants were utilized during map construction, resulting in unprecedented resolution for an F1 population, estimated by a median bin length of 146 kb and 11 genes per bin. Regression models uncovered 14 quantitative trait loci (QTL) underpinning yield, average tuber weight, and tubers produced per plant in a population exhibiting a striking 332% average midparent-value heterosis. Nearly 80% of yield-associated QTL were epistatic, and contained between 0 and 44 annotated genes. We found that approximately one-half of epistatic QTL overlap regions of residual heterozygosity identified in the inbred parental parent (M6). Genomic regions recalcitrant to inbreeding were associated with an increased density of genes, many of which demonstrated signatures of selection and floral tissue specificity. Dissection of the genome-wide additive and dominance values for yield and yield components indicated a widespread prevalence of dominance contributions in this population, enriched at QTL and regions of residual heterozygosity. Finally, the effects of short nucleotide variants and patterns of gene expression were determined for all genes underlying yield-associated QTL, exposing several promising candidate genes for future investigation.

SUBMITTER: Marand AP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6499519 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Residual Heterozygosity and Epistatic Interactions Underlie the Complex Genetic Architecture of Yield in Diploid Potato.

Marand Alexandre P AP Jansky Shelley H SH Gage Joseph L JL Hamernik Andy J AJ de Leon Natalia N Jiang Jiming J

Genetics 20190318 1

Deconvolution of the genetic architecture underlying yield is critical for understanding bases of genetic gain in species of agronomic importance. To dissect the genetic components of yield in potato, we adopted a reference-based recombination map composed of four segregating alleles from an interspecific pseudotestcross F<sub>1</sub> potato population (<i>n</i> = 90). Approximately 1.5 million short nucleotide variants were utilized during map construction, resulting in unprecedented resolution ...[more]

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