Abstract
Soybean is one of the most valuable agricultural crops in the world. Besides, this legume is constantly attacked by a wide range of pathogens (fungi, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes) compromising yield and increasing production costs. One of the major disease management strategies is the genetic resistance provided by single genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL). Identifying the genomic regions underlying the resistance against these pathogens on soybean is one of the first steps performed by molecular breeders. In the past, genetic mapping studies have been widely used to discover these genomic regions. However, over the last decade, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and their subsequent cost decreasing led to the development of cost-effective approaches to high-throughput genotyping. Thus, genome-wide association studies applying thousands of SNPs in large sets composed of diverse soybean accessions have been successfully done. In this chapter, a comprehensive review of the majority of GWAS for soybean diseases published since this approach was developed is provided. Important diseases caused by Heterodera glycines, Phytophthora sojae, and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum have been the focus of the several GWAS. However, other bacterial and fungi diseases also have been targets of GWAS. As such, this GWAS summary can serve as a guide for future studies of these diseases. The protocol begins by describing several considerations about the pathogens and bringing different procedures of molecular characterization of them. Advice to choose the best isolate/race to maximize the discovery of multiple R genes or to directly map an effective R gene is provided. A summary of protocols, methods, and tools to phenotyping the soybean panel is given to several diseases. We also give details of options of DNA extraction protocols and genotyping methods, and we describe parameters of SNP quality to soybean data. Websites and their online tools to obtain genotypic and phenotypic data for thousands of soybean accessions are highlighted. Finally, we report several tricks and tips in Subheading 4, especially related to composing the soybean panel as well as generating and analyzing the phenotype data. We hope this protocol will be helpful to achieve GWAS success in identifying resistance genes on soybean.
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Ferreira, E.G.C., Marcelino-Guimarães, F.C. (2022). Mapping Major Disease Resistance Genes in Soybean by Genome-Wide Association Studies. In: Torkamaneh, D., Belzile, F. (eds) Genome-Wide Association Studies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2481. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2237-7_18
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