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The detection of QTLs controlling bacterial wilt resistance in tobacco (N. tabacum L.)

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The bacterial tobacco wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most destructive soil-borne diseases worldwide. One strategy to improve the resistance to bacterial wilt is to make use of plant varieties expressing wilt resistance genes. To characterize the genetics of wilt resistance and to identify relevant molecular markers for use in plant breeding, quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting tobacco bacterial wilt resistance were mapped in the F2:3 and F2:4 progeny produced from two crosses between the wilt-resistant breeding lines Enshu and Yanyan97 and the susceptible cultivar TI448A. A linkage map containing 118 loci in 24 linkage groups was constructed for 236 lines from the Enshu×TI448A cross, and a linkage map containing 96 loci in 24 linkage groups was constructed for 264 lines from the Yanyan97×TI448A cross. The wilt resistance of the progeny was examined in field trials conducted in Xuancheng, China, in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The disease severity was assessed on stems using separate rating scales. Mapmaker/EXP 3.0 and Mapmaker/QTL 1.1 were used to identify the qBWR-3a, qBWR-3b, qBWR-5a and qBWR-5b QTLs in linkage group 3 and 5; these four loci were strongly associated with resistance and explain 9.00, 19.70, 17.30, and 17.40 % of the variance in resistance, respectively. The close linkage of the markers PT20275 and PT30229 was detected in both the TI448A×Enshu and TI448A×Yanyan97 crosses, and this linkage group could be used to select individual resistant plants. These findings suggest that one strategy to combat bacterial wilt could be to exploit the resistance genes of the Enshu and Yanyan97 strains.

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Abbreviations

RLH:

Ratio of lesion length to plant height

BWR:

Bacterial wilt resistance

MPV:

Mid-parent value

QTL:

Quantitative trait locus

IM:

Interval mapping

SSR:

Simple sequence repeats

BSA:

Bulk segregation analysis

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the Anhui Provincial Corporation of the Chinese National Tobacco Corporation for the financial support of the Tobacco High-Quality-and-Resistance Pyramid Breeding and Bacterial-Wilt-Resistance Genes Analysis project (Grant No. 20100551003).

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  1. Agricultural College of Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

    Yi-liang Qian & Da-nian Yao

  2. Tobacco Research Institute of Anhui Academy of Agricultural Science, Hefei, 230031, China

    Yi-liang Qian, Chao-long Zu, Zheng-liang Gao & Xue-yong Sun

  3. Anhui Provincial Corporation of China National Tobacco Corporation, Hefei, 230022, China

    Xin-sheng Wang, Da-zhou Wang & Li-na Zhang

  4. Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

    Hong-jun Zhang

  5. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    Zhi-yong Wang

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Y. Qian and X. Wang contributed equally to this work.

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Qian, Yl., Wang, Xs., Wang, Dz. et al. The detection of QTLs controlling bacterial wilt resistance in tobacco (N. tabacum L.). Euphytica 192, 259–266 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-012-0846-2

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