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High-resolution genome-wide association study of a large Czech collection of sweet cherry (Prunus aviumL.) on fruit maturity and quality traits
- Source :
- Horticulture Research; January 2023, Vol. 10 Issue: 1
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In sweet cherry (Prunus aviumL.), quantitative trait loci have been identified for fruit maturity, colour, firmness, and size to develop markers for marker-assisted selection. However, resolution is usually too low in those analyses to directly target candidate genes, and some associations are missed. In contrast, genome-wide association studies are performed on broad collections of accessions, and assemblies of reference sequences from Tieton and Satonishiki cultivars enable identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms after whole-genome sequencing, providing high marker density. Two hundred and thirty-five sweet cherry accessions were sequenced and phenotyped for harvest time and fruit colour, firmness, and size. Genome-wide association studies were used to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with each trait, which were verified in breeding material consisting of 64 additional accessions. A total of 1 767 106 single nucleotide polymorphisms were identified. At that density, significant single nucleotide polymorphisms could be linked to co-inherited haplotype blocks (median size ~10 kb). Thus, markers were tightly associated with respective phenotypes, and individual allelic combinations of particular single nucleotide polymorphisms provided links to distinct phenotypes. In addition, yellow-fruit accessions were sequenced, and a ~ 90-kb-deletion on chromosome 3 that included five MYB10 transcription factors was associated with the phenotype. Overall, the study confirmed numerous quantitative trait loci from bi-parental populations using high-diversity accession populations, identified novel associations, and genome-wide association studies reduced the size of trait-associated loci from megabases to kilobases and to a few candidate genes per locus. Thus, a framework is provided to develop molecular markers and evaluate and characterize genes underlying important agronomic traits.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26626810 and 20527276
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Horticulture Research
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs64574196
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhac233