Abstract
This paper shows the results of effective uses of a molecular cytogenetics toolbox and molecular marker to transfer leaf rust resistance genes from Aegilops tauschii × Secale cereale (DDRR, 2n = 4x = 28) amphiploid forms to triticale cv. Bogo (AABBRR, 2n = 6x = 42). The molecular markers of resistance genes and in situ hybridization analysis of mitotic metaphase of root meristems confirmed the stable inheritance of chromosome 3D segments carrying Lr32 from the BC2F2 to the BC2F5 generation of (Ae. tauschii × S. cereale) × triticale hybrids. The chromosome pairing analysis during metaphase I of meiosis of BC2F4 and BC2F5 hybrids showed increasing regular bivalent formation of 3D chromosome pairs and decreasing number of univalents in subsequent generations. The results indicate that using amphiploid forms as a bridge between wild and cultivated forms can be a successful technology to transfer the D-genome chromatin carrying leaf rust resistance genes into triticale.
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Introduction
Triticale (X Triticosecale Witt.) was created using wide crosses to combine the valuable traits of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rye (Secale cereale L.) (Aase 1930; O’Mara 1953; Jenkins 1969; Kiss and Videki 1971). At first, diseases did not appear to be a serious limitation to triticale production, probably because the areas of production of this crop were not conductive to cause serious shifts in pathogen virulence (Singh and Saari 1991). When triticale began to expand into new production areas, new hybrid pathotypes carrying virulence genes appeared (Arseniuk 1996). The most common diseases of triticale are caused by fungal pathogens, such as leaf rust (caused by Puccinia triticina) and powdery mildew (caused by Blumeria graminis) (Singh and Saari 1991 and Troch et al. 2014, respectively). One of the main breeding strategies for triticale improvement was to introduce D-genome chromosomes into 6x triticale (AABBRR). A number of efforts to produce triticale substitution lines were made. The simplest way to obtain D(A) or/and D(B) substitution lines is through octoploid (AABBDDRR) × tetraploid (AARR or BBRR) triticale crosses (Krowlow 1970; Lukaszewski et al. 1984; Apolinarska 1993). Another way to introduce D-chromosomes into triticale is using wild, diploid goatgrasses, which are ancestors carrying the D-genome, to create Aegilops tauschii Coss. (DD, 2n = 2x = 14) × S. cereale (RR, 2n = 2x = 14) hybrids (Fedak 1984; Cabrera et al. 1996). Ae. tauschii has approximately 23,000 protein coding genes and 1,200 NBS-LRR genes, which provides a large number of potential disease resistance loci (Jia et al. 2013). A number of resistance genes were transferred form Ae. tauschii to cultivated wheat. Resistance genes like Lr21 (on chromosome 1DS), Lr22a (2DS), Lr32 (3D), Lr39 (2DS), Lr40 (1DS), Lr42 (1D), and Lr43 (7DS) are the most essential for resistance durability (Rowland and Kerber 1974; Cox et al. 1994; Hussien et al. 1997; Raupp et al. 2001). However, the utilization of interspecific crosses between triticale and related species are arduous and prolonged because of genetic barriers of crossability controlled by Kr genes (Riley and Chapman 1967; Sitch et al. 1985; and Zheng et al. 1992, respectively). Moreover, the suppression of homologue chromosome pairing by the Ph genes may also interfere with the performance of distant crosses (Riley and Chapman 1958; Sears 1976; Lukaszewski and Kopecký 2010).
In this study, we have used the (Aegilops tauschii × S. cereale) × triticale hybrids, which were obtained by hybridization of the Aegilops tauschii × S. cereale amphiploids (DDRR, 2n = 4x = 28 chromosomes) with hexaploid triticale cv. Bogo as a paternal component to obtain the F1 generation of hybrids, which were, therefore, backcrossed with triticale ‘Bogo’ (pollinator) to obtain BC1F1 and BC2F1 hybrids, and further self-crossed to produce following generations (BC2F2 to BC2F5; Fig. 1a). The Aegilops tauschii × S. cereale amphiploids, produced using embryo rescue by Sulinowski and Wojciechowska of the Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland (data unpublished), carried 28 chromosomes having Lr22a and Lr39 (Kwiatek et al. 2012) and Lr32 (data unpublished) markers connected with resistance to leaf rust. The aim of this study was: (1) to characterize the chromosome composition of the hybrids (BC2F2 to BC2F5) of Ae. tauschii × triticale hybrids; (2) to identify the D-genome DNA markers which are linked with leaf rust resistance in the hybrids; and (3) to evaluate the stability of D-genome chromosomes inheritance by the chromosome pairing analysis during MI (metaphase I) of meiosis of pollen mother cells (PMCs) of BC2F4 and BC2F5 hybrids.
The chromosome preparations for FISH/GISH (fluorescence/genomic in situ hybridization) analysis were made according to Hasterok et al. (2006). The MI (first metaphase) of PMCs meiosis preparation of chromosomes for the GISH experiment were made according to Schubert et al. (2001). The identification of particular chromosomes was performed by comparing the signal pattern of 5S rDNA, 25S rDNA, pSc119.2, and pAs1 probes according to a previous study (Kwiatek et al. 2013) and similar cytogenetic analysis (Cuadrado and Jouve 1994; Schneider et al. 2003, 2005; Wiśniewska et al. 2013). Genomic DNA from Ae. tauschii (D-genome), Triticum monococcum (A-genome), and Secale cereale (R-genome) was labeled by nick translation (using the Nick Translation Kit, Roche, Mannheim, Germany) with digoxigenin-11-dUTP (Roche) or tetramethyl-rhodamine-5-dUTP (Roche), depending on the visualization concept. The 5S rDNA probe was generated from the wheat clone pTa794 (Gerlach and Dyer 1980) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and labeled by PCR with tetramethyl-rhodamine-5-dUTP using universal M13 sequencing primers. The 25S rDNA probe was made by nick translation of a 2.3-kb ClaI subclone of the 25S rDNA coding region of Arabidopsis thaliana (Unfried and Gruendler 1990) with digoxigenin-11-dUTP. The latter probe was used for the detection of 35S rDNA loci. The pSc119.2 repetitive DNA sequence was amplified and labeled by PCR with digoxigenin-11-dUTP by using universal M13 primers (Vrána et al. 2000). The probe pAs1 was amplified by PCR from the genomic DNA of Ae. tauschii and labeled with digoxigenin-11-dUTP, according to Nagaki et al. (1995). Digoxigenin was detected using anti-digoxigenin-rhodamine antibody (Roche). Chromosome and probe denaturation, hybridization, and post- hybridization washes were performed as described by Kwiatek et al. (2013). The identification of STS markers for Lr22a (Xgwm296), Lr32 (Xbarc135), and Lr39(Xgdm35) were made according to Hiebert et al. (2007), Thomas et al. (2010), and Pestsova et al. (2000), respectively).
Results and discussion
According to the literature, chromosome 2D of Ae. tauschii carries the Lr22a and Lr39 markers (Hiebert et al. 2007 and Pestsova et al. 2000, respectively) and chromosome 3D possess the Lr32 marker (Kerber 1987; Thomas et al. 2010) for leaf rust inheritance resistance genes. A sole plant exhibiting 46 chromosomes with two additional pairs of 2D and 3D chromosomes was chosen from BC2F2 hybrids for the molecular analysis. The products of Lr22a primers amplification resulted in 135 base pairs (bp) and 167 bp bands, which are characteristic for susceptible genotypes, according Hiebert et al. (2007). The PCR reaction using Lr32 primers resulted in 261 bp and 273 bp products amplification, which indicate resistant genotypes. The Lr39 marker was also identified in this plant using PCR, which resulted in a 185 bp product, appropriate for resistant genotypes. This plant was self-crossed to produce following generations (BC2F3 to BC2F5) (Fig 1a). The chromosome composition of hybrid plants was similar as generations advanced. The analysis of the progeny showed that six plants of the BC2F3 generation with addition of the pairs of 2D and 3D chromosomes also carried the Lr32 and Lr39 markers. Moreover, in four plants with additional 2D chromosome and four other plants with additional 3D chromosome, we have separately observed the amplification products for Lr39 and Lr32, respectively. The BC2F4 plants were obtained from 21” + 1”3D + 1”2D genotypes (Table 1; Fig. 2). Fifteen plants with an additional pair of 3D chromosomes showed amplification products indicating heterozygosity (185 and 280 bp products; Pestsova et al. 2000) for the Lr39 marker, although the FISH experiment presented a lack of 2D chromosomes in these plants. The same situation appeared in all plants with an additional pair of 3D chromosomes (34 plants) and in 12 plants with substitution pair 3D(3B) of the BC2F5 generation obtained from 21” + 1”3D genotypes (Table 1; Fig. 2).
It can be assumed that the high effectiveness of D-chromatin transfer from amphiploid forms (DDRR) into triticale (AABBRR) was caused by R-genome chromosomes pairing during prophase I of meiosis, which ensured the functional daughter cells formation. Moreover, the behavior of D-genome chromosomes studied during MI of meiosis of PMCs by GISH showed that the mean bivalent configurations increased when comparing BC2F4 and BC2F5 hybrids belonging to congruent plant groups divided with regard to the D-genome chromosome configuration (Table 2). The increasing mean number of the bivalents was similar to the study of Orlovskaya et al. (2007), which showed that the bivalent appearance in F4 hybrid plants of triticale × (Aegilops × Triticum aestivum; AABBUU and AABBSshSsh) was substantially higher than in the F1 hybrids. The mean number of D-genome ring bivalents in the hybrids with an additional pair of 3D chromosomes (Table 2) was higher in BC2F5 plants (0.70) compared with BC2F4 plants (0.50). However, the mean number of D-genome rod bivalents decreased from 0.45 (BC2F4) to 0.25 (BC2F5). On the other hand, considering the same groups of plants, the mean number of D-genome univalents decreased from 0.18 to 0.08. According to the other studies concerning the meiotic analysis of Aegilops species with wheat and rye, the distant crosses should result in the intergenomic chromosome formation during meiosis. Molnár and Molnár-Láng (2010) observed the intergenomic rod and ring bivalents and trivalents between 2M, 3M, 3U, and 7M of Ae. biuncialis and wheat (Chinese Spring ph1b) chromosomes. In our study, we did not observe any intergenomic chromosome formation during meiosis. We suppose that triticale has the controlling system of homologue chromosome pairing that hampers the pairing of the chromosomes from different genomes. In wheat, homoeologous chromosome pairing and consequent recombination is suppressed by the function of the Ph1 gene (Riley and Chapman 1958), located on chromosome 5B(5BL), and the Ph2 gene on chromosome 3DS and 3AS (Mello-Sampayo 1971). The Chinese Spring ph1b (CSph1b) mutant genotype (Sears 1977), which lacks the Ph1 locus, has been successfully used for the introgression of alien genetic material into the wheat genome by the induction of homoeologous pairing (Lukaszewski 2000). This is the reason for the intergenomic bivalent and trivalent appearance in the study of Molnár and Molnár-Láng (2010). In this work, the rDNA-FISH analysis and repetitive sequence FISH experiments showed that the pair of chromosomes 5B was present in all hybrids examined (Fig. 1c, d). This consideration led us to suppose that triticale cv. Bogo and the F1 to BC2F5 hybrids of (Ae. tauschii × S. cereale) × triticale cv. Bogo could carry the dominant allele of the Ph1 gene. This assumption explained the appearance of 3D chromosomes in the following generations of hybrids, because only two homologue chromosomes can pair during meiosis and can be inherited from generation to generation.
The stable inheritance of 3D chromosome pairs from the BC2F2 to BC2F5 generations of (Ae. tauschii × S. cereale) × triticale hybrids can be considered as a successful attempt of D-genome introgression into triticale, without using deletion or mutation lines of wheat or triticale with lack of the whole Ph1 locus or Ph1a allele. The presence of the Lr32 marker in the 49 BC2F5 plants carrying 3D chromosomes (Fig. 1 b, c, d, e) and the heterozygous character of the 46 BC2F5 plants considering the Lr39 marker makes them useful components in breeding programs aimed at triticale improvement.
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M.K., H.W., and B.A. initiated the project and designed the study. M.K., M.M., and J.B. performed the research. M.K. wrote the paper. We thank Dr. Marie Kubalakova (Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytometry, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic) for supplying us with pSc119.2 clones and for her valuable suggestions, and Dr. Tomasz Książczyk (Laboratory of Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland) for supplying 5S and 25S rDNA sequences and for his clues. The technical assistance of Mrs. Grażyna Cicha and Mrs. Joanna Maszner is gratefully acknowledged.
This work was financed by the National Science Centre (DEC-2012/05/N/NZ9/01563).
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Kwiatek, M., Majka, M., Wiśniewska, H. et al. Effective transfer of chromosomes carrying leaf rust resistance genes from Aegilops tauschii Coss. into hexaploid triticale (X Triticosecale Witt.) using Ae. tauschii × Secale cereale amphiploid forms. J Appl Genetics 56, 163–168 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13353-014-0264-3
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