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Genome-wide association analysis of salinity responsive traits in Medicago truncatula.


ABSTRACT: Salinity stress is an important cause of crop yield loss in many parts of the world. Here, we performed genome-wide association studies of salinity-stress responsive traits in 132 HapMap genotypes of the model legume Medicago truncatula. Plants grown in soil were subjected to a step-wise increase in NaCl concentration, from 0 through 0.5% and 1.0% to 1.5%, and the following traits were measured: vigor, shoot biomass, shoot water content, leaf chlorophyll content, leaf size, and leaf and root concentrations of proline and major ions (Na+ , Cl- , K+ , Ca2+ , etc.). Genome-wide association studies were carried out using 2.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms, and 12 genomic regions associated with at least four traits each were identified. Transcript-level analysis of the top eight candidate genes in five extreme genotypes revealed association between salinity tolerance and transcript-level changes for seven of the genes, encoding a vacuolar H+ -ATPase, two transcription factors, two proteins involved in vesicle trafficking, one peroxidase, and a protein of unknown function. Earlier functional studies on putative orthologues of two of the top eight genes (a vacuolar H+ -ATPase and a peroxidase) demonstrated their involvement in plant salinity tolerance.

SUBMITTER: Kang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850670 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide association analysis of salinity responsive traits in Medicago truncatula.

Kang Yun Y   Torres-Jerez Ivone I   An Zewei Z   Greve Veronica V   Huhman David D   Krom Nicholas N   Cui Yuehua Y   Udvardi Michael M  

Plant, cell & environment 20190227 5


Salinity stress is an important cause of crop yield loss in many parts of the world. Here, we performed genome-wide association studies of salinity-stress responsive traits in 132 HapMap genotypes of the model legume Medicago truncatula. Plants grown in soil were subjected to a step-wise increase in NaCl concentration, from 0 through 0.5% and 1.0% to 1.5%, and the following traits were measured: vigor, shoot biomass, shoot water content, leaf chlorophyll content, leaf size, and leaf and root con  ...[more]

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