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A novel major QTL for FHB resistance was mapped to a 6.8 Mb region on chromosome 2D in a Chinese wheat cultivar Ji5265, and diagnostic KASP markers were developed for detecting it in a worldwide wheat collection.
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Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a serious disease in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and causes significant reductions in grain yield and quality worldwide. Breeding for FHB resistance is the most effective strategy to minimize the losses caused by FHB; therefore, identification of major quantitative trait loci (QTLs) conferring FHB resistance and development of diagnostic markers for the QTLs are prerequisites for marker-assisted selection (MAS). Ji5265 is a Chinese wheat cultivar resistant to FHB in multiple environments. An F6 population of 179 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was developed from Ji5265 × Wheaton. The population was genotyped by genoty**-by-sequencing (GBS) and phenotyped for FHB Type II resistance in greenhouses. A major QTL, designated as QFhb-2DL, was mapped in a 6.8 Mb region between the markers GBS10238 and GBS12056 on the long arm of chromosome 2D in Ji5265 and explained ~ 30% of the phenotypic variation for FHB resistance. The effect of QFhb-2DL on FHB resistance was validated using near-isogenic lines (NILs) derived from residual heterozygotes from an F6 RIL of Ji5265 × Wheaton. The two flanking markers were converted into Kompetitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) markers (KASP10238 and KASP12056) and validated to be diagnostic in a collection of 2,065 wheat accessions. These results indicate that QFhb-2DL is a novel major QTL for resistance to FHB spread within a spike (Type II) and the two KASP markers can be used for MAS to improve wheat FHB resistance in wheat breeding programs.
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Bai GH and Su ZQ designed the research; Su ZQ, Li HW, Zhang FP, Zhao JX, and Bernardo A performed the research; Su ZQ, Li HW, Zhang FP, and St. Amand P analyzed the data; Li HW, Zhang FP, Su ZQ, Ni ZF, Sun QX, and Bai GH wrote the paper. All the authors read and approved the manuscript.
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Allele distribution of the parents and the RILs at KASP12056 marker locus showing clear separation among homozygous resistant and susceptible genotypes and heterozygotes. Blue and green dots represent homozygous resistant and homozygous susceptible genotypes, respectively, and cyan dots represent heterozygous genotypes. Black dots and crosses represent H2O controls and QFhb-2DL deletion lines, respectively.
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Li, H., Zhang, F., Zhao, J. et al. Identification of a novel major QTL from Chinese wheat cultivar Ji5265 for Fusarium head blight resistance in greenhouse. Theor Appl Genet 135, 1867–1877 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-022-04080-5
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