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ABSTRACT: Background
The exploitation of novel alleles from wild rice that were lost during rice cultivation could be very important for rice breeding and evolutionary studies. Plant height (PH) was a target of artificial selection during rice domestication and is still a target of modern breeding. The "green revolution" gene semi-dwarf 1 (SD1) were well documented and used in the past decades, allele from wild rice could provide new insights into the functions and evolution of this gene.Results
We identified a PH-related quantitative trait locus, qCL1.2,from wild riceusing a set of chromosome segment substitution lines. qCL1.2encodesa novel allele of SD1 gene. The wild allele of SD1 is a dominant locus that can significantly promote rice internode length by regulating the expression levels of genes involved in gibberellin biosynthesis and signal transduction. Nucleotide diversity and haplotype network analyses of the SD1 gene were performed using 2822 rice landraces. Two previously reported functional nucleotide polymorphisms clearly differentiated japonica and indica rice; however, they were not associated with PH selection. Other new functional nucleotide polymorphisms in the coding, but not promoter, regions were involved in PH selection during rice domestication. Our study increasesunderstanding of the rice SD1 gene and provides additional evidence of this gene's selection during rice domestication.Conclusions
Our findings provide evidence thatSD1 gene from wild rice enhances plant height and new functional nucleotide polymorphisms of this gene were artificially selected during cultivated rice differentiation.
SUBMITTER: Zhang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Lizhen L Huang Jingfen J Wang Yanyan Y Xu Rui R Yang Ziyi Z Zhao Zhigang Z Liu Shijia S Tian Yunlu Y Zheng Xiaoming X Li Fei F Wang Junrui J Song Yue Y Li Jiaqi J Cui Yongxia Y Zhang Li-Fang LF Cheng Yunlian Y Lan Jinhao J Qiao Weihua W Yang Qingwen Q
BMC genetics 20200611 1
<h4>Background</h4>The exploitation of novel alleles from wild rice that were lost during rice cultivation could be very important for rice breeding and evolutionary studies. Plant height (PH) was a target of artificial selection during rice domestication and is still a target of modern breeding. The "green revolution" gene semi-dwarf 1 (SD1) were well documented and used in the past decades, allele from wild rice could provide new insights into the functions and evolution of this gene.<h4>Resul ...[more]