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Identification of a new QTL for Fusarium head blight resistance in the wheat genotype “Wang shui-bai”

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Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most devastating wheat diseases, causing both yield loss and quality reduction. To detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for FHB resistance, plants of the F2:3 population derived from a ‘Wangshui-bai’ × ‘Sy95-7’ cross were artificially inoculated. Of 396 simple sequence repeats (SSRs), 125 amplified fragment length polymorphisms were used for FHB resistance QTL analysis. Five QTLs for FHB resistance were detected on chromosomes 3B, 6B, 7A, 1B and 2D. The effect of the QTL located on chromosome 3B on phenotypic variation was 31.69%, while that of the QTL found on 2D was the smallest and only accounted for 4.98% of the variation. The resistance alleles originated from ‘Wangshibai’ and association of the QTLs using these SSR markers may facilitate marker-assisted selection to improve FHB resistance in the wheat breeding programs of southwest China.

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The authors would like to thank the Crop Breeding Program of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Bureau, Young Teacher Foundation of Sichuan Province Education Bureau (No. 07ZB057), the Fok Ying Tung Educations Foundation (No. 111030) and the Specific Foundation of Commonweal Agronomy (No. nyhyzx3-15) for providing financial support. We are grateful to Dr. R.A. McIntosh, University of Sydney, Australia for critical review of a draft of this paper.

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    Min Zhang, Rong Zhang & Jizhi Yang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, 625014, China

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Zhang, M., Zhang, R., Yang, J. et al. Identification of a new QTL for Fusarium head blight resistance in the wheat genotype “Wang shui-bai”. Mol Biol Rep 37, 1031–1035 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-009-9809-7

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