Genetic Dissection of Drought and Heat Tolerance in Chickpea
This dissection was carried out through Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene-Based Association Mapping Approaches
Abstract
To understand the genetic basis of tolerance to drought and heat stresses in chickpea, a comprehensive association mapping approach has been undertaken. Phenotypic data were generated on the reference set (300 accessions, including 211 mini-core collection accessions) for drought tolerance related root traits, heat tolerance, yield and yield component traits from 1–7 seasons and 1–3 locations in India (Patancheru, Kanpur, Bangalore) and three locations in Africa (Nairobi, Egerton in Kenya and Debre Zeit in Ethiopia). Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers equally distributed across chickpea genome were used to determine population structure and three sub-populations were identified using admixture model in STRUCTURE. The pairwise linkage disequilibrium (LD) estimated using the squared-allele frequency correlations (r2; when r2
Citation
Mahendar Thudi; Upadhyaya, H.D.; Rathore, A.; Gaur, P.M.; Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy; Roorkiwal, M.; Nayak, S.N.; Chaturvedi, S.K.; Basu, P.S.; Gangarao, N.V.P.R.; Fikre, A.; Kimurto, P.; Sharma, P.C.; Sheshashayee, M.S.; Tobita, S.; Kashiwagi, J.; Ito, O.; Killian, A.; Varshney, R.K. Genetic Dissection of Drought and Heat Tolerance in Chickpea through Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene-Based Association Mapping Approaches. PLoS ONE (2014) 9 (5) e96758. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096758]