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Marker Assisted Breeding

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Recent advances in understanding molecular and physiological mechanisms of abiotic stress responses, along with breakthroughs in molecular marker technologies, have enabled the dissection of the complex traits underlying stress tolerance in crop plants. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling different abiotic stress traits form the basis for a precise marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) strategy to rapidly transfer tolerance loci into high-yielding, but stress-sensitive varieties. Case studies are presented to demonstrate the progress and potential for MABC programs to develop rice varieties with increased tolerance to flooding, salinity, phosphorus deficiency and drought, amongst others. Future opportunities exist for employing association genetics for more efficient allele mining for abiotic stress tolerance from germplasm collections, as well as leveraging the power of bioinformatics and genomics data for more efficient trait dissection and use in breeding. Plant breeders now have a wealth of information and tools available to tackle these serious constraints posed by abiotic stresses, with the promise of delivering stable, high yielding varieties, able to thrive in the increasingly degrading soils and the ominously changing environment.

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Abbreviations

AGI:

Arabidopsis Genome Initiative

BAC:

bacterial artificial chromosome

CSSLs:

chromosomal segment substitution lines

EPSO:

European Plant Science Organization

ERF:

ethylene responsive factors

FNP:

functional nucleotide polymorphism

HKT:

transporters high-affinity K+ transporter

IRGSP:

International Rice Genome Sequencing Project

IRIS:

International Rice Information System

LD:

linkage disequlibrium

LOD:

scores logarithm of the odds ratio

MABC:

marker-assisted backcrossing

MAS:

marker-assisted selection

NILs:

near-isogenic lines

OsHKT8:

Oryza sativa cation transporter HKT8

PUP1:

phosphorus uptake 1

QTLs:

quantitative trait loci

RFLPs:

restriction fragment length polymorphism

RILs:

recombinant inbred lines

ROS:

reactive oxygen species

SOS:

salt overly sensitive

SSR:

simple sequence repeat

SNP:

single nucleotide polymorphism

SKC1:

shoot potassium content 1

SUB1:

submergence 1

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We gratefully thank E. Septiningsih and A. Kumar for sharing unpublished data. Research activities summarized here were supported in part, by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the CGIAR Generation Challenge Program, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the International Rice Research Institute.

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    Michael J. Thomson, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Susan R. McCouch & David J. Mackill

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Thomson, M.J., Ismail, A.M., McCouch, S.R., Mackill, D.J. (2009). Marker Assisted Breeding. In: Pareek, A., Sopory, S., Bohnert, H. (eds) Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3112-9_20

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