Genome-wide association study of seedling stage salinity tolerance in temperate japonica rice germplasm.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Salinity has a significant impact on rice production in coastal, arid and semi-arid areas in many countries, including countries growing temperate rice, such as Kazakhstan. Recently, the complete genomes of 3000 rice accessions were sequenced through the 3 K rice genome project, and this set included 203 temperate japonica rice accessions. To identify salinity-tolerant germplasm and related genes for developing new salinity-tolerant breeding lines for the temperate japonica rice growing regions, we evaluated the seedling stage salinity tolerance of these sequenced temperate japonica rice accessions, and conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for a series of salinity tolerance related traits. RESULTS:There were 27 accessions performed well (SES?

SUBMITTER: Batayeva D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5753436 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature