Affiliation:
1. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‐Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Patancheru Telangana India
2. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology Anand Agricultural University Anand Gujarat India
3. Corteva Agriscience Hyderabad India
Abstract
AbstractBlast disease causes serious economic yield losses in pearl millet. Identification and introgression of genomic regions associated with blast resistance can help to develop resistant cultivars to minimize yield losses incurred from blast outbreaks. In this study, 384 advanced pearl millet genotypes were screened against six blast pathotype‐isolates (major pearl millet growing agro‐ecologies of India), namely, Pg 45, Pg 118, Pg 138, Pg 186, Pg 204 and Pg 232. Analysis of variance showed significant (P < .001) variation among genotypes for blast reaction (susceptible to resistance). ICMR 08111 and ICMR 10888 genotypes showed resistance to all six blast pathotypes. A genome‐wide association study performed with 264,241 single nucleotide polymorphic markers could successfully identify 15 SNPs (P = 1.26 × 10−7 to 9.22 × 10−12) underlying the genomic regions governing blast‐resistance across five different chromosomes. The SNPs reported had a significant association in at least two of the three models tested (GLM, MLM and Farm CPU). These SNPs can be used in pearl millet‐resistant breeding programmes after their function has been validated across different genetic backgrounds.
Subject
Plant Science,Genetics,Agronomy and Crop Science
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