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GWAS reveals consistent QTL for drought and salt tolerance in a MAGIC population of 550 lines derived from intermating of 11 Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) parents Abdelraheem Abdelraheem1 · Gregory N. Thyssen2 · David D. Fang3 · Johnie N. Jenkins4 · Jack C. McCarty4 · Tom Wedegaertner5 · Jinfa Zhang1 Received: 14 August 2020 / Accepted: 30 September 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Cotton is grown in arid and semi-arid regions where abiotic stresses such as drought and salt are prevalent. There is a lack of studies that simultaneously address the genetic and genomic basis of tolerance to drought and salt stress. In this study, a multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) population of 550 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) together with their 11 Upland cotton parents with a total of 473,516 polymorphic SNP markers was used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought tolerance (DT) and salt tolerance (ST) at the seedling stage based on two replicated greenhouse tests. Transgressive segregation occurred in the MAGIC-RILs, indicating that tolerant and sensitive alleles recombined for tolerance to the abiotic stress during the intermating process for the population development. A total of 20 QTL were detected for DT including 13 and 7 QTL based on plant height (PH) and dry shoot weight (DSW), respectively; and 23 QTL were detected for ST including 12 and 11 QTL for PH and DSW, respectively. There were several chromosomes with QTL clusters for abiotic stress tolerance including four QTL on chromosome A13 and three QTL on A01 for DT, and four QTL on D08 and three QTL on A11 for ST. Nine QTL (21% of the 43 QTL) detected were in common between DT and ST, indicating a common genetic basis for DT and ST. The narrow chromosomal regions for most of the QTL detected in this study allowed identification of 53 candidate genes associated with responses to salt and drought stress and abiotic stimulus. The QTL identified for both DT and ST have significantly augmented the repertoire of QTL for abiotic stress tolerance that can be used for marker-assisted selection to develop cultivars with resilience to drought and/or salt and further genomic studies towards the identification of drought and salt tolerance genes in cotton. Keyword Upland cotton · Drought tolerance · Salt tolerance · MAGIC · SNPs · GWAS
Introduction Communicated by Stefan Hohmann. Abdelraheem Abdelraheem and Gregory N. Thyssen have equal contributions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-020-01733-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Jinfa Zhang [email protected] 1
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Cotton Fiber Bioscience and Cotton Chemistry and Utilization Research Units, USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, LA, USA
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Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutism L.) is the most important fiber crop and one of the
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