1. Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement
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H. Randy Kutcher, Richard Horsnell, James Simmonds, Pierre Hucl, Ahmed Fawzy Elkot, Thomas Lux, Catherine Chinoy, Long Mao, Parveen Chhuneja, Guotai Yu, Vijay K. Tiwari, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, G. S. Brar, Shuyu Liu, Jan Dvorak, Kumar Gaurav, Brian J. Steffenson, Macarena Forner-Martínez, Sanu Arora, Raz Avni, Jitender Cheema, Beat Keller, Martin Mascher, Barbara Steiner, Oadi Matny, Mark A. Smedley, Catherine Gardener, Paula Silva, Dengcai Liu, Victoria Widrig, Ksenia V. Krasileva, Ngonidzashe Kangara, David M. Gilbert, Simon M. Tyrrell, W. John Raupp, Burkhard Steuernagel, Hermann Buerstmayr, Rizky Pasthika Kirana, Javier Sánchez-Martín, Evans Lagudah, Firuza Nasyrova, Xingdong Bian, Susanne Artmeier, Cristobal Uauy, Suzannah Pearce, Joshua Waites, Jackie C. Rudd, Ali A. Mehrabi, Aili Li, Shuangye Wu, Noam Chayut, Attilio Pascucci, Sadiye Hayta, Narinder Singh, Alison R. Bentley, Martin Simonsen, Ming-Cheng Luo, Steven S. Xu, Scott A. Boden, Sreya Ghosh, Brande B. H. Wulff, Paul Nicholson, Amber N. Hafeez, Tom O’Hara, Amir Sharon, Justin D. Faris, Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Wendy Harwood, Liangliang Gao, Leif Schauser, Sandip Kale, M. Patpour, Robert P. Davey, Nitika Sandhu, Jesse Poland, Jiaqian Liu, and Gina Brown-Guedira
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0106 biological sciences ,Aegilops ,Population ,Biomedical Engineering ,Population genetics ,Bioengineering ,01 natural sciences ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Genome ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genetics ,Aegilops tauschii ,education ,Association mapping ,Triticum ,030304 developmental biology ,2. Zero hunger ,0303 health sciences ,Genetic diversity ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,Human Genome ,food and beverages ,Bread ,Genomics ,biology.organism_classification ,ddc ,Plant Breeding ,Molecular Medicine ,Metagenomics ,Ploidy ,Plant immunity ,Genome-wide association studies ,Plant domestication ,Genome informatics ,Plant breeding ,010606 plant biology & botany ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Aegilops tauschii, the diploid wild progenitor of the D subgenome of bread wheat, is a reservoir of genetic diversity for improving bread wheat performance and environmental resilience. Here we sequenced 242 Ae. tauschii accessions and compared them to the wheat D subgenome to characterize genomic diversity. We found that a rare lineage of Ae. tauschii geographically restricted to present-day Georgia contributed to the wheat D subgenome in the independent hybridizations that gave rise to modern bread wheat. Through k-mer-based association mapping, we identified discrete genomic regions with candidate genes for disease and pest resistance and demonstrated their functional transfer into wheat by transgenesis and wide crossing, including the generation of a library of hexaploids incorporating diverse Ae. tauschii genomes. Exploiting the genomic diversity of the Ae. tauschii ancestral diploid genome permits rapid trait discovery and functional genetic validation in a hexaploid background amenable to breeding.
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- 2022