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Comparative QTL analysis of salinity tolerance in terms of fruit yield using two solanum populations of F7 lines

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Salt tolerance has been analysed in two populations of F7 lines developed from a salt sensitive genotype of Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme, as female parent, and two salt tolerant lines, as male parents, from S. pimpinellifolium, the P population (142 lines), and S. cheesmaniae, the C population (116 lines). Salinity effects on 19 quantitative traits including fruit yield were investigated by correlation, principal component analysis, ANOVA and QTL analysis. A total of 153 and 124 markers were genotyped in the P and C populations, respectively. Some flowering time and salt tolerance candidate genes were included. Since most traits deviated from a normal distribution, results based on the Kruskal–Wallis non-parametric test were preferred. Interval mapping methodology and ANOVA were also used for QTL detection. Eight out of 15 QTLs at each population were detected for the target traits under both control and high salinity conditions, and among them, only average fruit weight (FW) and fruit number (FN) QTLs (fw1.1, fw2.1 and fn1.2) were detected in both populations. The individual contribution of QTLs were, in general, low. After leaf chloride concentration, flowering time is the trait most affected by salinity because different QTLs are detected and some of their QTL×E interactions have been found significant. Also reinforcing the interest on information provided by QTL analysis, it has been found that non-correlated traits may present QTL(s) that are associated with the same marker. A few salinity specific QTLs for fruit yield, not associated with detrimental effects, might be used to increase tomato salt tolerance. The beneficial allele at two of them, fw8.1 (in C) and tw8.1 (for total fruit weight in P) corresponds to the salt sensitive parent, suggesting that the effect of the genetic background is crucial to breed for wide adaptation using wild germplasm.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by grants from IVIA (IV), and INIA (RTA01-113-C2 and RTA04-075-C2). Authors thank Drs. Jimenez-Diaz and Martinez-Zapater for the information on the flowering time gene candidates, and I. Pereira, J. Pérez-Panadés, P. Cirujeda and J. Puchades for technical assistance.

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Villalta, I., Bernet, G.P., Carbonell, E.A. et al. Comparative QTL analysis of salinity tolerance in terms of fruit yield using two solanum populations of F7 lines. Theor Appl Genet 114, 1001–1017 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-006-0494-9

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