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Quantitative trait loci associated with salinity tolerance in field grown bread wheat

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The differential response to field salinity of the parents of the ITMI wheat mapping population (cv. Opata 85 and the synthetic hexaploid W7984) was exploited to perform a QTL analysis of the response to salinity stress of a set of agronomic traits over two seasons. The material was irrigated either with potable water (EC of 1.0 dS m−1) or with diluted seawater (12.0 dS m−1). Grain yield was positively correlated with tiller number, plant height, percentage survival, ear weight, ear length, grain number per ear, grain weight and thousand grain weight, and negatively with time to booting, anthesis and physiological maturity, under both the control and salinity stress treatments. In all, 22 QTL were detected under control conditions, and 36 under salinity stress. Of the latter, 13 were major loci (LOD > 3.0) and eight were reproducible across both seasons. Chromosome 2D harboured 15 salinity stress associated QTL and chromosome 4A six such QTL. The remaining loci were located on chromosomes 2A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 1B, 4B, 3B, 6B, 7B and 6D.

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We thank Matthew Reynolds (CIMMYT) for providing seed materials, Annette Heber at IPK for technical assistance and Ira Fogel at CIBNOR for editorial advice. This research was supported by CONACYT of Mexico (36608-B), the bilateral interchange program CONACYT-BMBF of Germany and PROMEP grants to J. L. Díaz De León.

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  1. Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    José Luis Díaz De León, Ricardo Escoppinichi & Nadia Geraldo

  2. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Thelma Castellanos

  3. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), El Batán, Texcoco, Mexico

    Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi

  4. Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

    Marion S. Röder

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Díaz De León, J.L., Escoppinichi, R., Geraldo, N. et al. Quantitative trait loci associated with salinity tolerance in field grown bread wheat. Euphytica 181, 371–383 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-011-0463-5

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