Abstract
Sinapis alba L. (white mustard) is recognized for carrying host resistance against several biotic stresses including, Alternaria brassicae, which is responsible for blight disease in cultivated Brassica. However, another cultivated Brassica has a dearth for genetic resistance for these stresses due to its narrow genetic base. Therefore, we performed introgression of the genomic regions of S. alba into backcross progenies of B. juncea + S. alba somatic hybrids. These advanced generations with S. alba chromosomal segments are named B. juncea-S. alba introgression lines (ILs). In the present study, we developed the S. alba genome-specific microsatellites from the draft genome to track the S. alba genome introgressions and responsible regions for resistance to A. brassicae. For developing these SSR markers, the unique contigs of S. alba draft genome were identified through BLASTN with B. juncea, B. rapa, B. nigra, and B. oleracea reference genome assemblies, including mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes, and further used for marker development. Out of 403,423 contigs, we have identified 65,343 non-hit contigs of S. alba that yielded a total of 1231 genome-specific microsatellites, out of which 1107 were expected to produce a single allele upon amplification. Out of the total SSRs, 234 primer pairs were randomly picked from whole-genome and validated between B. juncea and S. alba genomes for their specificity. In the validation experiment, these markers gave a single amplicon into S. alba, while they did not amplify in B. juncea genome. Of these, 59 microsatellites were used to track S. alba introgressions in 80 BC2F3 lines. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that these two genetic resources are developed in the form of B. juncea-S. alba ILs and S. alba-specific markers. Therefore, both the resources unlock a new avenue of Brassica breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses along with quality traits.
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Research was carried out with financial assistance received from the Science Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) New Delhi, India received by Dr. Preetesh Kumari with three consecutive grants under the Young Scientist Scheme (YSS/2015/001849) followed by Women Scientist Scheme (WOS-A) (File No. SR/WOS-A/LS-373/2018); KPS acknowledges fellowship support received from CSIR, under EMR-I grant (file no. 09/1247(0001)/2019-EMR-I). We are also acknowledged to the Director IARI, New Delhi for providing field facility and Dr. Rajkumar (Ex-head) IARI, regional station Katrain, (Kullu valley) for providing Field facilities for generation advancement and phenotyping.
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1. Preetesh Kumari: (File No. YSS/2015/001849), Science and Engineering Research Board, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India for funding the research work; (file no. SR/WOS-A/LS-373/2018), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Govt. of India, India for fellowship; 2. Kaushal Pratap Singh, received Research Associateship (file no. 09/1247(0001)/2019-EMR-I) from HRDG-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi.
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KPS: Developed species-specific SSRs primers, run the software and analyzed data, disease screening for Alternaria blight disease, draft, edited, and finalized manuscript; PK: Conception and design of work, recorded morphological data, harvesting, developed plant material, validated markers, genotyping, raised funds of the study, editing, and finalization of the manuscript; RKR: Did genotyping of all 80 ILs with few markers; PKR: Provided resources to develop markers used in the present study, edited and finalized manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript for submission.
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Singh, K.P., Kumari, P., Raipuria, R.K. et al. Development of genome-specific SSR markers for the identification of introgressed segments of Sinapis alba in the Brassica juncea background. 3 Biotech 12, 332 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-022-03402-0
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