Abstract
Brassica juncea (AABB), Indian mustard, is a source of disease resistance genes for a wide range of pathogens. The availability of reference genome sequences for B. juncea has made it possible to characterise the genomic structure and distribution of these disease resistance genes. Potentially functional disease resistance genes can be identified by co-localization with genetically mapped disease resistance quantitative trait loci (QTL). Here we identify and characterise disease resistance gene analogs (RGAs), including nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeat (NLR), receptor-like kinase (RLK) and receptor-like protein (RLP) classes, and investigate their association with disease resistance QTL intervals. The molecular genetic marker sequences for four white rust (Albugo candida) disease resistance QTL, six blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) disease resistance QTL and BjCHI1, a gene cloned from B. juncea for hypocotyl rot disease, were extracted from previously published studies and used to compare with candidate RGAs. Our results highlight the complications for the identification of functional resistance genes, including the duplicated appearance of genetic markers for several resistance loci, including Ac2(t), AcB1-A4.1, AcB1-A5.1, Rlm6 and PhR2 in both the A and B genomes, due to the presence of homoeologous regions. Furthermore, the white rust loci, Ac2(t) and AcB1-A4.1, mapped to the same position on chromosome A04 and may be different alleles of the same gene. Despite these challenges, a total of nine candidate genomic regions hosting 14 RLPs, 28 NLRs and 115 RLKs were identified. This study facilitates the mapping and cloning of functional resistance genes for applications in crop improvement programs.
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Introduction
Brassica juncea, commonly known as Indian mustard, is extensively cultivated, with a total of 952,727 hectares producing 728,931 tonnes across 25 countries in 2018 (FAO 2020). However, its production is limited by several diseases, including blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans, L. biglobosa), Sclerotinia stem rot (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), white rust (Albugo candida), Alternaria blight (Alternaria brassicae, A. brassicicola, A. raphani), downy mildew (Hyaloperonospora brassicae), white leaf spot (Pseudocercosporella capsellae) and powdery mildew (Erysiphe cruciferarum) (Oram et al. 1999; Pradhan and Pental 2011; Edwards et al. 2007; Inturrisi et al. 2021). Traditional disease management strategies include fungicide application and seed treatments, crop rotation and the use of resistant cultivars. However, the effectiveness of resistant cultivars can break down over time due to changing pathogen populations and the diversity of avirulence genes (Zhang et al. 2015; Rouxel and Balesdent 2017). For example, the breakdown of blackleg resistance in commercial cultivars of B. napus has been reported in Australia and Canada (Van De Wouw et al. 2016; Rouxel and Balesdent 2017; Van de Wouw et al. 2014; Zhang et al. 2015). Because of the potential to break down resistance, it is important to expand the sources of resistance for introgression into commercial B. napus cultivars. Sources of germplasm for resistance breeding have been identified in several B. juncea genotypes coming from the major producing countries, such as Australia, Canada, China and India, for resistance to L. maculans, S. sclerotium and A. candida (Li et al. 2006, 2007a, b, 2008a, b), and B. juncea has proven to be a valuable source of resistance genes for introgression into other Brassica crops, such as canola (B. napus) (Inturrisi et al. 2021).
Plant resistance gene analogs (RGAs) play an important role in plant resistance response against pathogens (Zhang et al. 2020; Sekhwal et al. 2015). The nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeats (NLR), receptor-like kinases (RLK) and receptor-like proteins (RLP) are the main classes of RGAs (Zipfel 2014, 2008; Kim et al. 2012; Stotz et al. 2014). In a typical NLR gene, the NBS and LRR domains are located in the middle and the C-terminus of the gene respectively (Meyers et al. 1999; Xiao et al. 2001; Shao et al. 2014). The remaining structure of NLR proteins consists of three main domains at the N-terminus; the TIR-NBS-LRR (TNL) class is characterized by a toll/interleukin-1 receptor domain; the CC-NBS-LRR (CNL) class contains the coiled-coil domain; and the RPW8-NBS-LRR (RNL) class contains the resistance to powdery mildew 8 (RPW8) domain. Different types of RLKs include leucine-rich repeat–receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs), the largest gene family of RLKs and are highly conserved, and the less conserved lysin motif–receptor-like kinases (LysM-RLKs) (Gust et al. 2012; Wan et al. 2008; Zeng et al. 2012). In contrast, RLPs have an extracellular domain, a transmembrane domain and a short cytosolic domain without a signalling domain. Some of the main types of RLPs include leucine-rich repeat–receptor-like proteins (LRR-RLPs) (Jones et al. 1994; Jehle et al. 2013) and lysin motif–receptor-like proteins (LysM-RLPs) (Willmann et al. 2011). These genes have been identified and studied across Brassica species and Brassica pangenomes (Inturrisi et al. 2020; Yang et al. 2021; Bayer et al. 2019; Dolatabadian et al. 2020), as well as wild and cultivated species of the Brassicaceae family (Tirnaz et al. 2020).
Genetic mapping in plants has been used extensively to identify genetic regions associated with traits (Rafalski 2002; Tanksley et al. 1989; Mohan et al. 1997; Xu et al. 2017). The availability of plant reference genomes and pangenomes allows for translation of these genetic loci to genomic regions and the identification of candidate gene variations underlying heritable traits (Dolatabadian et al. 2020; Hurgobin and Edwards 2017; Bayer et al. 2019), and the availability of the B. juncea genome (Yang et al. 2016) allows the identification of candidate disease resistance genes underlying previously identified disease resistance quantitative trait loci (QTL) in this species. Here we performed in silico analysis to identify disease resistance QTL from published literature and map genetic locations to B. juncea, based on flanking molecular genetic markers. Candidate genes for disease resistance were identified in the QTL intervals, including several NLR, RLP and RLK genes. These genes provide candidates for further assessment and validation for their role in defence against these important diseases.
Materials and methods
Genomic resources
Molecular genetic markers associated with resistance to infection by L. maculans and A. candida pathogens, and BjCHI1 resistance for hypocotyl rot disease in B. juncea were identified in published literature (Tables S1, S2, S3). The sequence of the markers and genes were downloaded from the literature, the NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) or TAIR (https://www.arabidopsis.org/index.jsp) websites (Tables S1, S2, S3).
The list of RGAs, including NLRs, RLKs and RLPs, was extracted from previous studies (Tirnaz et al. 2020; Yang et al. 2021; Inturrisi et al. 2020). All classes of RGAs were identified based on their domain structure using the RGAugury pipeline (Li et al. 2016b). RLKs were further classified into three types; ‘RLK-LRR’, ‘RLK-LysM’ and ‘RLK-other-receptor’. RLPs were classified into two types; ‘RLP-LRR’ and ‘RLP-LysM’ and NLRs were classified to ‘NL’, ‘TN’, ‘TNL’, ‘CNL’, ‘N’ and ‘other’ subclasses. The graphical representation of NLR, RLK and RLP genes was visualised using Mapchart V2.3 (Voorrips 2002).
Characterisation of published resistance QTL to the physical position on the reference genome
The physical chromosomal positions of the disease-associated molecular genetic markers were determined by comparing the sequences (Tables S1–S3) with the reference B. juncea genome v1.5 (Yang et al. 2016) on the Brassica database (BRAD) website (http://brassicadb.org/brad/blastPage.php). If a marker could not be placed on a pseudomolecule or a contig, it was removed from further analysis.
Previously predicted NLR, RLK and RLP genes (Tirnaz et al. 2020; Yang et al. 2021; Inturrisi et al. 2020) were assigned as candidate resistance genes if positioned within the flanking markers of a QTL interval or, alternatively, positioned 1 Mbp region upstream and downstream of the marker.
Results
Integration of QTL for disease resistance in Brassica juncea
White rust
In silico mapping for disease resistance has been conducted for white rust disease in B. juncea, where four QTL (Table S4) were identified. Marker sequences were available for white rust resistance loci: Ac2(t), Acr, AcB1-A5.1 and AcB1-A4.1 (Table S1). Four white rust resistance QTL had marker sequences available to locate the genomic region of the QTL. Sequences for the primer pair of ILP marker At5g41560 (Panjabi et al. 2008), and RAPD primers OPB06 (OPB061000) and OPN01 (OPN011000) were obtained from (Rajaseger et al. 1997; Ananga et al. 2006; Solmaz et al. 2010). In addition, BjCHI1, a gene cloned from B. juncea for hypocotyl rot resistance, was identified (Table S3).
Genomic sequences for A. thaliana genes At2g34510, At2g36360, At5g41560 and At5g41940 from which markers for white rust resistance loci AcB1-A4.1 and AcB1-A5.1 (Panjabi-Massand et al. 2010) were derived from the TAIR website. The DNA sequence of all four genes was compared with the B. juncea reference to identify their approximate position.
The same white rust QTL represent the genes Acr and Ac21. These genes were identified using the same mapping population from the crossing of susceptible J90-4317 and resistant J90-2733 (Prabhu et al. 1998; Cheung et al. 1998; Somers et al. 1999). In addition, it was suggested that Ac21 and Ac2(t) are two separate loci despite the absence of polymorphism for markers between the two cultivars identified with Ac21 and Ac2(t) (Mukherjee et al. 2001).
There were several markers and QTL that could not be analysed further due to unavailable sequence information, including RFLP markers for Acr; X140a, X42 and X83 (Cheung et al. 1998).
Blackleg
Ten blackleg QTL were identified in B. juncea (Table S5), while the flanking markers were unavailable for several QTL. Marker sequences were available for blackleg resistance loci, Rlm6, LMJR1, LMJR2, rjlm2 and PhR2, as well as a locus without an identifying name (Table S2). Sequences for the primer pair of ILP marker OPG02 (OPG02.800), OPT01 (OPT01.800), OPI01 (OPI01-HaeIII) and OPU9 were sourced from (Kumar et al. 2010; Srivastava et al. 2014; Delourme et al. 1994; Struss et al. 1996). The blackleg QTL, LMJR1 and LMJR2, were flanked by one RFLP and one SSR; however, the SSR sequences (LMJR1, sB31143F; LMJR2, sB1534) were unavailable. The flanking RFLP markers pN199RV and pN120cRI were found on the NCBI website as pN199 (GenBank: CZ692853.1) and pN120 (GenBank: CZ692836.1), respectively, where the RFLP were named differently depending on the linkage map, species and publication. In addition, the SSR markers positioned in the same linkage group to SSRs flanking the LMJR1 and LMJR2 resistance loci were analysed due to the unavailability of sBb31143F and sB1534. Additional literature (Fredua-Agyeman et al. 2014; Nelson et al. 2009; Chen et al. 2013; Navabi et al. 2010, 2011) was investigated for the Brassica B genome linkage groups that were used in Christianson et al. (2006) to determine the SSRs with available marker sequence found in the same Brassica B genome linkage group.
In some instances, multiple blackleg disease QTL were found to represent the same gene, for example Rlm6 and Jlm1 (Chèvre et al. 1997; Balesdent et al. 2002; Brun et al. 2000; Fudal et al. 2007) due to a change in nomenclature. Four RFLP and three AFLP markers were linked to the blackleg resistance gene, PhR2, where an RFLP (RP1513) and AFLP (S7G4) marker were converted to PCR-based STS markers linked to the same resistance gene and mapped to the same position in linkage maps (Plieske and Struss 2001).
Sequence information of three RFLP markers for PhR2 (pRP1457.H, pRP1513.E, pRP1602.H) (Plieske et al. 1998), RFLP markers linked to three resistance loci (Dixelius and Wahlberg 1999) and one unnamed RFLP associated to resistance locus, LmBR1 (Dixelius 1999), were not available and they were excluded from the analysis.
Physical mapping of candidate disease resistance genes in Brassica juncea
White rust
The physical map and distribution of previously predicted RGAs (Yang et al. 2021; Inturrisi et al. 2020; Tirnaz et al. 2020) on B. juncea chromosomes were produced (Figure S1, Fig. 1). An uneven distribution of NLRs, RLPs and RLKs was observed between B. juncea chromosomes (Figure S1). For example, RLP-LysM genes were only found on chromosomes A06 and B03 and the majority of RLKs were located on chromosomes A03, B02, B03, B05, B08 and ‘unknown’.
White rust resistance QTL for AcB1-A4.1, AcB1-A5.1 and Ac2(t) were located on the A genome chromosomes A04, A05 and A04, respectively (Fig. 1). Flanking markers for QTL AcB1-A4.1(B01), AcB1-A5.1(B06) and Ac2(t)(B01) aligned with regions on the B genome chromosomes. There were no significant matches for the decamer primers for RAPD markers WR2 and WR3, which are flanking markers for Acr (= Ac21); hence, no genomic position could be determined.
The sequence of several flanking markers for white rust QTL had multiple matches on different chromosomes (Fig. 1). The sequences of E-ACC and M-CAA, for the marker E-ACC/M-CAA350 for a white rust resistance locus Ac2(t), were found on chromosome B01. However, only M-CAA for marker E-ACC/M-CAA350 was identified on chromosome A04 and the distance between the primers was 3,466,012 bp on chromosome B01, which is more than the estimated size of E-ACC/M-CAA350, 350 bp.
Two genomic locations were found on chromosome A05 for the white rust resistance QTL, AcB1-A5.1. These had QTL interval sizes of 1,098,849 bp and 1,102,681 bp and were positioned 3832 bp apart. The flanking markers for AcB1-A4.1 were placed on chromosomes A04 and B01. The flanking marker At5g41940 for AcB1-A4.1 had top BLAST hits on chromosome A07 and Contig1207, although the other flanking marker At5g41560 failed to have top BLAST hits in these locations. It was also found with other markers for QTL regions that top BLAST hits were found on multiple chromosomes and multiple positions of the same chromosome (Fig. 1).
Candidate resistance genes were mapped within the locus and 1 Mb downstream and upstream from the white rust resistance (Table 1). RLKs were dominant in all QTL. The white rust QTL linked to AcB1-A4.1, B01, has the smallest size (304,083 bp) and lowest number of RGA (3) among all QTL. In total, there were five genomic regions of interest with 2 RLPs, 3 NLRs and 27 RLKs (Table 1).
Blackleg
Markers for blackleg resistance QTL were identified on several chromosomes (Fig. 1). Markers for PhR2 were positioned on chromosomes A03 and B03 with interval sizes of 1,358,032 bp and 1,224,376 bp, respectively. Markers for LMJR1 were positioned on chromosome B03 with loci interval size of 8,176,380 bp based on the set of SSRs utilised in the study (Christianson et al. 2006). PhR2 overlaps with LMJR1 on chromosome B03 at 2,554,162 bp–3,778,538 bp. In addition, the genomic region of interest for LMJR2 was identified using a similar approach to LMJR1 where SSR markers of the same linkage group of the SSR that was linked to LMJR2 were positioned on chromosome B08, with a locus interval of 20,282,056 bp. The markers for Rlm6 were located on several chromosomes: A07, A09 and B01 (Fig. 1). The RAPD and RFLP markers were found to be linked to Rlm6 from a couple of studies (Chèvre et al. 1997; Barret et al. 1998). CAPS and SCAR markers that were linked to Rlm6 were used for screening B. napus and B. juncea interspecific hybrid populations (Rashid et al. 2018). The CAPS markers, BnHz_2 and BjHz_1, did not provide a QTL region, unlike rjlm2, PhR2, LMJR1 and LMJR2 (Christianson et al. 2006; Plieske and Struss 2001; Saal and Struss 2005; Saal et al. 2004), and were found on chromosome A07 and A09. However, the SCAR markers for Rlm6, B5-1520 and B5Rlm6_1, were found on chromosome B01 and they were shown to be located within the rjlm2 locus (Fig. 1). All three SCAR markers linked to rjlm2, B51520, C5-1000 and RGALm, were found on chromosome B01.
Similar to white rust, candidate resistance genes were mapped within the locus and 1 Mb downstream and upstream from the loci for blackleg (Table 1), and all QTL for resistance had the highest proportion of RLKs. Most QTL contained more NLRs than RLPs, expect for LMJR2 on chromosome B08 (2 NLRs and 6 RLPs). Among all QTL, blackleg QTL linked to LMJR2, B08, has the largest size (20,282,056 bp) and highest number of RGA (48). Genomic regions of interest with a larger size interval tended to have a greater number of total RGAs. The SCAR markers, B5-1520 and B5Rlm6_1, were linked to Rlm6; however, there was no linkage map information provided by Rashid et al. (2018) and B5-1520 was the same SCAR marker utilised for rjlm2. Rlm6 was located on chromosome B01 using the SCAR markers, B5-1520 and B5Rlm6_1, with an interval of 1467 bp where BjuB003452 overlapped with the interval of the markers (Rashid et al. 2018). Analysis of the locus interval along with 1 MB upstream and downstream mapped four RLK genes (BjuB003438, LRR-RLK; BjuB003480, LysM-RLK; BjuB005639, Other-receptor-RLK BjuB027118, LRR-RLK). There were two RLPs outside of this region for analysis (BjuB002972, LRR-RLP, B01, 16,299,149–16,300,492; BjuB024332, LRR-RLP, B01, 19,952,790–19,957,271). For blackleg resistance, in total, there were four genomic regions of interest with 12 RLPs, 25 NLRs and 88 RLKs (Table 1).
Hypocotyl rot
BjCHI1 (GenBank accession no. AAF02299), a chitinase gene for hypocotyl rot resistance, was mapped in an unnamed B. juncea genotype using primers derived from an Arabidopsis chitinase gene (Zhao and Chye 1999). The coding sequence for BjCHI1 was available and was BLASTed against the B. juncea reference genome and found to be positioned on chromosome A03, 20,353,574–20,355,565 bp, with a coding sequence length of 1991 bp on the reference genome. An annotated gene from the B. juncea reference genome, BjuA012108, was shown to overlap with the physical position of the coding sequence for BjCHI1 on chromosome A03. The physical position of BjuA012108 was on chromosome A03 at 20,353,662 to 20,355,562 bp with a gene length of 1901 bp and consisting of two exons. BjuA012108 was not previously identified as a RGA in B. juncea; however, it is reported as a member of the glycosyl hydrolases gene family which is also involved in plant defence mechanisms against microbes and herbivores (Mir et al. 2020).
Discussion
In this study, the association of RLKs, RLPs and NLRs, the main classes of RGAs, with B. juncea resistance QTL of white rust, blackleg and hypocotyl rot diseases were investigated. Similar genetic mapping studies were previously performed across various crop species for the identification of functional resistance genes. For instance, Sagi et al. (2017) validated candidate NLR genes for ascochyta blight resistance in chickpea that were co-localised within the QTL interval from previously published studies using qRT-PCR among three cultivars at four different time points. These candidate NLRs were selected for validation after the identification of NLR genes from the chickpea reference genome and physical positioning of the flanking markers for known disease resistance QTL in chickpea. Candidate genes have been identified in Brassica species through genetic analysis for disease resistance against Sclerotinia stem rot in B. napus (Wei et al. 2016; Wu et al. 2016), clubroot disease in B. napus (Li et al. 2016a) and B. rapa (Yu et al. 2017), blackleg disease in B. napus (Cantila et al. 2020; Tollenaere et al. 2012; Raman et al. 2016), yellow wilt disease in B. oleracea (Lv et al. 2014; Shimizu et al. 2015), turnip mosaic virus disease in B. rapa (Lv et al. 2015) and downy mildew in B. rapa (Yu et al. 2016). Wu et al. (2016) performed a comparative analysis for Sclerotinia stem rot resistance in B. napus where QTL identified in the study and previous studies aligned to the B. napus genome based on the physical position of the markers (Wu et al. 2016). There were 41 genes identified for Sclerotinia stem rot resistance among 12 B. napus chromosomes along with three chromosomal regions with multiple QTL (Wu et al. 2016). An integration analysis of QTL for Sclerotinia stem rot in B. napus was conducted by Li et al. (2015) where QTL from previous studies were aligned to the B. napus genome to identify 26 candidate NLRs. In addition, 4 and 7 NLRs were identified on conserved QTL regions located on B. napus chromosome A9 and C6, respectively (Li et al. 2015). An integration analysis for disease resistance in B. juncea was similar to approaches implemented by Wu et al. (2016) to identify candidate resistance genes. Here we mapped over 100 RGAs in B. juncea genome; however, not all of them are necessarily involved in a resistance response. In particular RLK and RLP genes are also involved in various, other biological processes (Sekhwal et al. 2015).
Here, QTL analysis indicates that the positions of the QTL markers did not always have hits on the same chromosomes. For example, for Ac2(t), the forward primer for OPB061000 was aligned to chromosomes A04 (e-value = 0.000297) and B01 (e-value = 0.001) although the reverse primer and the other flanking marker, E-ACC/M-CAA350, were not strongly aligned. This observation could be due to differences in the marker sequences between the lines they were identified in and the reference genome, or it could be problems with genome assemblies. For example, the wrong placement of a contig in the genome assembly or duplication may lead to the forward and reverse primers for a marker, or different markers underlying the QTL being found on different chromosomes. In addition, at the time that markers were developed for these QTL, the reference genome of B. juncea was not available and it was impossible to design primers for exact genomic physical positions.
Some QTL had positions on multiple chromosomes. For example, AcB1-A4.1 had a similar QTL region size of 362,237 bp and 304,083 bp on chromosomes A04 and B01, respectively. There were two QTL regions for AcB1-A5.1 on chromosome A05. In addition, At2g34510 and At2g36360 for AcB1-A5.1 were located on chromosome B06 at an interval size of 929,582 bp. The candidate resistance genes for AcB1-A4.1, AcB1-A5.1 and Ac2(t) were placed on the A genome chromosomes, A04, A05 and A04, respectively. Mapping QTL on more than one chromosome and often different sub-genomes may be caused by homoeologous regions between the A and B genome and result in the identification of orthologous and homogeneous resistance genes. This will highlight the importance of performing a genome-wide analysis and not only focus on the reported regions for a specific gene and marker to ensure all candidate genes have been considered.
In some cases, two different genes were mapped in the same position. For example, the disease locus of AcB1-A4.1 overlapped with Ac2(t) on chromosome A04, which could suggest two disease resistance loci on the same chromosome, or that AcB1-A4.1 and Ac2(t) were actually the same disease resistance locus. AcB1-A4.1 and Ac2(t) being the same disease resistance locus was suggested by Singh et al. (2015). This is a common challenge when different markers or populations are used and it is unclear whether loci are distinct genes, different alleles of the same gene or in fact the same gene.
Although it was found the majority of RGAs underlying the QTL were NLR genes and they play a major role in plant disease resistance (Meyers et al. 1999; McHale et al. 2006), most of the previously cloned resistance genes for white rust and blackleg resistance were reported as RLKs and RLPs. For instance, the resistance genes for blackleg resistance cloned from Brassica species, i.e. Rlm2 and LepR3, were shown to encode extracellular leucine-rich receptor (eLRR) receptor-like proteins (RLPs) on chromosome A10 (Larkan et al. 2013, 2015). LepR3 was annotated as Bra008930 in B. rapa, which was 1890 bp gene length, 851 amino acid length and motif structure predicted by InterProScan analysis to include a single peptide at the N-terminal, eLRR region, transmembrane motif and cytoplasmic C-terminal region at the C-terminal (Larkan et al. 2013). Rlm2 was cloned in B. napus and had a protein motif structure to include a single peptide at the N-terminal, eLRR region, transmembrane motif and cytoplasmic C-terminal region at the C-terminal (Larkan et al. 2015). Rlm2, an LRR-RLP, was shown to interact with AtSOBIR1, a LRR-RLK gene (Larkan et al. 2015), and LepR3 was shown to interact with BnSOBIR1, a B. napus RLK (Ma and Borhan 2015). These highlight the importance of including RLKs and RLPs, in addition to NLRs for the identification of functional resistance genes.
Many of the QTL intervals were shown to contain clustered RGAs. This has been observed in previous studies, which found QTL located in a resistance gene–rich region containing NLR gene clusters that confer resistance to a number of different pathogens (Wang et al. 2010; Jeong et al. 2001). A clustered region of NLR genes has also been found to underly different QTL conferring fungal resistance in soybeans (Kang et al. 2012). This may have implications for disease resistance and be beneficial for resistance gene evolution.
The markers for resistance against the same race of pathogen isolates are possibly useful for further analysis between plant species, especially closely related plant species like diploid B. nigra and allotetraploid B. juncea which both possess the Brassica B genome. B. juncea has been shown to have resistance to multiple races (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9) of Xanthomonas campestris, the causal agent for black rot, where it was postulated that B. juncea have black rot resistance genes, R1, R5 and possibly R4 (Vicente et al. 2001; Jensen et al. 2010; Vicente and Holub 2013). The resistance genes for R1 and R4 were established to be single dominant genes, which correspond to avirulence genes A1 and A4, respectively. It was also postulated that B. juncea cultivar Guangtou possessed resistance gene Rc1, which corresponds to avirulence gene avrXccC (xopAH) (He et al. 2007), and resistance genes Rc1 and Rc3 may be resistance genes R1 and R4.
To conclude, with advances in whole-genome sequencing technologies and availability of crops genome sequence, it is important to perform genome-wide mapping studies of genes and QTL linked to agronomically important traits, such as disease resistance, to facilitate the identification and application of these genes in the breeding programme. Here we mapped nine genomic regions related to disease resistance in B. juncea where the regions carry14 RLPs, 28 NLRs and 115 RLKs. We also indicated and discussed a number of challenges that can affect the accuracy of gene identification, including identifying QTL markers in various locations across the genome, which can be observed as a result of the homologs genomic regions. Altogether, we expected the outcome assists and facilitates the identification of functional genes towards breeding improvements.
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Inturrisi, F., Bayer, P.E., Cantila, A.Y. et al. In silico integration of disease resistance QTL, genes and markers with the Brassica juncea physical map. Mol Breeding 42, 37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-022-01309-5
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