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Donde, R.

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Identification of QTLs for high grain yield and component traits in New Plant Types of rice

A panel of 60 genotypes consisting of New Plant Types (NPTs) along with indica, tropical and temperate japonica genotypes were phenotypically evaluated for four seasons in irrigated situation for grain yield per se and component traits. Twenty NPT genotypes were found to be promising with an average grain yield of 5.45 to 8.8 t/ha. A total of 85 SSR markers were used in the study to identify QTLs associated with grain yield per se and related traits. Sixty-six (77.65%) markers were found to be polymorphic. The PIC values varied from 0.516 to 0.92 with an average of 0.704. A moderate level of genetic diversity (0.39) was detected among genotypes. Variation to the tune of 8% within genotypes, 68% among the genotypes within the population and 24% among the populations were observed (AMOVA). The association analysis using GLM and MLM models led to the identification of 30 and 10 SSR markers were associated with 70 and 16 QTLs, respectively. Thirty novel QTLs linked with 16 SSRs were identified to be associated with eleven traits, namely, tiller number (qTL-6.1, qTL-11.1, qTL-4.1), panicle length (qPL-1.1, qPL-5.1, qPL-7.1, qPL-8.1), flag leaf length (qFLL-8.1, qFLL-9.1), flag leaf width (qFLW-6.2, qFLW-5.1, qFLW-8.1, qFLW-7.1), total no. of grains (qTG-2.2, qTG-a7.1), thousand-grain weight (qTGW-a1.1, qTGW-a9.2, qTGW-5.1, qTGW-8.1), fertile grains (qFG-7.1), seed length-breadth ratio (qSlb-3.1), plant height (qPHT-6.1, qPHT-9.1), days to 50% flowering (qFD-1.1) and grain yield per se (qYLD-5.1, qYLD-6.1a, qYLD-11.1). This information could be useful for identification of highly potential parents for development of transgressive segregants. Moreover, super rice genotypes could be developed through pyramiding of these QTLS for important yield traits for prospective increment in yield potentiality and breaking yield ceiling.

plant biology

De novo assembly and characterization of transcriptome towards understanding molecular mechanism associated with MYMIV-resistance in Vigna mungo - A computational study

The fast climate change affects yield in Vigna mungo via enhancing both biotic and abiotic stresses. Out of all factors, the yellow mosaic disease has the most damaging effect. However, due to lack of reference genome of Vigna mungo, the complete mechanism associated with MYMIV (Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Indian Virus) resistance in Vigna mungo remain elusive to date. Considering this, the authors made an attempt to release new transcriptome and its annotation by employing computational approaches. Quality assessment of the generated transcriptomes reveals that it successfully aligned with 99.03% of the raw reads and hence can be employed for future research. Functional annotation of the transcriptome reveals that 31% and [~]14% of the total transcripts encode lncRNAs and protein-coding sequences, respectively. Further, analysis reveals that, out of total transcripts, only 4536 and 78808 are significantly down and up-regulated during MYMIV infection in Vigna mungo, respectively. These significant transcripts are mainly associated with ribosome, spliceosome, glycolysis /gluconeogenesis, RNA transport, oxidative phosphorylation, protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum, MAPK signaling pathway - plant, methionine and cysteine metabolism, purine metabolism and RNA degradation. Unlike the previous study, this is for the first time, the present study identified these pathways may play key role in MYMIV resistance in Vigna mungo. Thus, information and transcriptomes data available in the present study make a significant contribution to understanding the genomic structure of Vigna mungo, enabling future analyses as well as downstream applications of gene expression, sequence evolution, and genome annotation.

bioinformatics