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QTL alleles for improved fiber quality from a wild Hawaiian cotton, Gossypium tomentosum

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Seventeen backcross-self families from crosses between two Gossypium hirsutum recurrent parent lines (CA3084, CA3093) and G. tomentosum were used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling fiber quality traits. A total of 28 QTLs for fiber quality traits were identified (P < 0.001), including four for fiber elongation, eight for fiber fineness, four for fiber length, four for fiber strength, six for fiber uniformity, one for boll weight, and one for boll number. Three statistically significant marker–trait associations for lint yield were found in a single environment, but need further validation. Two-way analysis of variance revealed one locus with significant genotype × family interaction (P < 0.001) for fiber strength and a second locus with significant genotype × environment interaction (P < 0.001) in the CA3084 background, and two loci with significant genotype × background interaction (P < 0.001) for the 28 common markers segregating in both of the two recurrent backgrounds. Co-location of many QTLs for fiber quality traits partially explained correlations among these traits. Some G. tomentosum alleles were associated with multiple favorable effects, offering the possibility of rapid genetic gain by introgression. Many G. tomentosum alleles were recalcitrant to homozygosity, suggesting that they might be most effectively deployed in hybrid cottons. DNA markers linked to G. tomentosum QTLs identified in the present study promise to assist breeders in transferring and maintaining valuable traits from this exotic source during Upland cotton cultivar development. This study also adds further evidence to prior studies indicating that the majority of genetic variation associated with fiber quality in tetraploid cotton traces to the D-subgenome from a diploid ancestor that does not produce spinnable fiber.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the members of the Paterson laboratory for many valuable contributions, and the US Department of Agriculture (02-01412), US National Science Foundation (IIP-0917856), and Cotton, Inc. for financial support.

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  1. Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    Zhengsheng Zhang, Junkang Rong, Vijay N. Waghmare & Andrew H. Paterson

  2. Key Laboratory of Biotechnology and Crop Quality Improvement of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, People’s Republic of China

    Zhengsheng Zhang

  3. College of Agricultural and Food Science, Zhejiang Forestry University, Hangzhou, 311300, People’s Republic of China

    Junkang Rong

  4. Division of Crop Improvement, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, 440010, India

    Vijay N. Waghmare

  5. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, 31794, USA

    Peng W. Chee & O. Lloyd May

  6. Texas AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX, 79403, USA

    Robert J. Wright & John R. Gannaway

  7. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA

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Zhang, Z., Rong, J., Waghmare, V.N. et al. QTL alleles for improved fiber quality from a wild Hawaiian cotton, Gossypium tomentosum . Theor Appl Genet 123, 1075–1088 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-011-1649-x

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