Affiliation:
1. ICAR‐National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources New Delhi India
2. Department of Botany Baba Mastnath University Rohtak India
3. Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR‐Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi India
Abstract
AbstractDrought is a major constraint for barley production as it is normally cultivated in rainfed and marginal areas lacking optimum productivity. The domestication bottleneck and further selection pressure have resulted in reduced genetic diversity in barley. Genebank germplasm holds a huge potential for identifying new alleles for stress tolerance. In the present study, a diverse set of 214 accessions from Indian National Genebank were screened for drought tolerance in hydroponics and field conditions. Analysis of variance revealed a significant effect of drought on root architecture, relative water content, membrane stability index, chlorophyll content, plant height, and yield attributes. Cumulative stress response in terms of better root phenotype, physiological and agronomic traits showed accessions IC113045, EC578521, IC582699, EC492318, EC578711, EC667420, IC393980 and IC594943 as most promising donors for breeding programmes in drought‐prone areas. Further allelic variation of candidate gene, Hordeum vulgare aleurone 1 (HVA1), and its promoter sequence was studied in a subset of drought‐tolerant and ‐susceptible accessions. The HVA1 gene showed six SNPs and one indel in the genic regions whereas three SNPs and one indel in promoter. Two alleles of HVA1 gene, one in exotic and other in indigenous accession, were found to be associated with drought tolerance. These results were confirmed by qRT‐PCR analysis exhibiting significant increase in transcript abundance of HVA1 in drought‐tolerant accessions in comparison with susceptible accessions, thereby highlighting its possible role in imparting drought tolerance. The study helped identify genetic resources for drought tolerance in barley and unravelled new alleles of HVA1.
Subject
Plant Science,Agronomy and Crop Science
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