Genome Wide Association Study Pinpoints Key Agronomic QTLs in African Rice Oryza glaberrima.

ABSTRACT:

Background

African rice, Oryza glaberrima, is an invaluable resource for rice cultivation and for the improvement of biotic and abiotic resistance properties. Since its domestication in the inner Niger delta ca. 2500 years BP, African rice has colonized a variety of ecologically and climatically diverse regions. However, little is known about the genetic basis of quantitative traits and adaptive variation of agricultural interest for this species.

Results

Using a reference set of 163 fully re-sequenced accessions, we report the results of a Genome Wide Association Study carried out for African rice. We investigated a diverse panel of traits, including flowering date, panicle architecture and resistance to Rice yellow mottle virus. For this, we devised a pipeline using comple

SUBMITTER: Cubry P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494698 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature