GWAS for Drought Resilience Traits in Red Clover (Trifolium pratense L.).

ABSTRACT: Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is a well-appreciated grassland crop in temperate climates but suffers from increasingly frequent and severe drought periods. Molecular markers for drought resilience (DR) would benefit breeding initiatives for red clover, as would a better understanding of the genes involved in DR. Two previous studies, as follows, have: (1) identified phenotypic DR traits in a diverse set of red clover accessions; and (2) produced genotypic data using a pooled genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach in the same collection. In the present study, we performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for DR using the available phenotypic and genotypic data. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) calling was performed using GBS data and the following two red clover genom

SUBMITTER: Vleugels T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11507065 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature