Rqtl is an extensible, interactive environment for the mapping of quantitative trait loci qtl in experimental crosses. Utilization of molecular markers for pgrfa characterization and prebreeding for climate changes aug. Quantitative traits can have varying phenotypic concentration. Ml and outfire05 were both major qtl and explained, respectively, 14. Mapping quantitative trait loci in plant breeding populations core.
Qtl analysis is predicated on looking for associations between the quantitative trait and the marker alleles segregating in the population. Plants are used as model organisms for the study of quantitative traits because they are particularly amenable to highresolution mapping and positional cloning. Qtl mapping for each location was conducted by compositeinterval mapping cim in windows qtl cartographer version 2. Trait codes, their performance and broad sense heritability are presented in table 1. Nelsona,c,2 adepartment of plant breeding and genetics, cornell university, ithaca, ny 14853. Ancient and modern perspectives article pdf available. Employing multipleline cross qtl mapping we identified 15 qtl for ph1, 18 for ph2 and 8 for ph3 table 2, figure 2. Aarts1 1laboratory 2 of genetics, wageningen university, droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 pb wageningen, the netherlands. The parental lines contrasted for most of the traits at both sites table 1. Genetic resistance is the most costeffective and environmentally appropriate approach to disease management in crop plants. One plant from the f 2 plants was selected for producing a nearisogenic line nil that was designated sl218 f 2 a. It has enabled detailed understanding of the genetic component of many major traits in plant breeding.
Flavonoids are important components that confer upon tea plants a unique flavour and health functions. The phenotypes and the frequencies of the progeny from the test crosses are. The primary requirement is for two parental strains that have differences between them in the alleles that affect. Two strategies have been widely applied to genetic mapping in plants. Recent advances in qtl mapping and quantitative disease. Here, a brief overview of the principle of qtl mapping, salient requirements. Sotocerda 1,2 and sylvie cloutier 1 1cereal research center, agriculture and agrifood canada 2agriaquaculture nutritional genomic center, cgna r10c1001 genomics and bioinformatics unit 1canada 2chile 1. Over the past two decades, linkage mapping has been commonly used in various plant species, and many qtl have been cloned or tagged 1. Genetic resistance is the most costeffective and environmentally appropriate approach to disease management in. Currently, most ld mapping studies in plants use r2 for ld quantification because it also provides information about the correlation between markers and qtl of interest flintgarcia et al. Quantitative trait locus qtl 1 mapping with a highdensity genetic linkage map, including 2,496 recombinant bins, was used to uncover the genetic basis of these complex agronomic traits, and 988 qtl 1s have been identified for all investigated traits, including three qtl 1 hotspots. Compared to 673 plants, 305e40 plants set longer, narrower and lighter fruits, which developed on a longer peduncle and formed fewer seed locules and a green ring in the.
Seed size is also a vital fitness trait in flowering plants and plays a. Four outfir qtl were detected in ml, mapping to e02 outfire02ab, e03 and e05. With qtl mapping, the roles of specific resistance loci can be described, racespecificity of partial resistance genes can be assessed, and interactions between resistance genes. Highthroughput phenotyping and qtl mapping reveals the. Employing triticale as model species for small grain cereals, busemeyer et al. Quantitative trait locus, linkage map, molecular marker. Introduction to qtl mapping in plants annals of plant. Two different plants plant 1 and plant 2 that were heterozygous for each trait were test crossed to plants that were homozygous for th e recessive alleles. Analysis of the genetic basis of plant heightrelated traits. R qtl is an extensible, interactive environment for the mapping of quantitative trait loci qtl in experimental crosses. With the advent of codominant dna markers, it became possible to construct saturated genetic maps and to locate qtl for numerous phenotypes in plants, animals and humans. This paper will be a key reference for the beginners and research scholars who are involved in qtl mapping in crop plants. Genomewide nested association mapping of quantitative. Status and prospects of association mapping in plants.
The line is least heterozygous within a region between two dna markers, c11635 and p3b2, on chromosome 6. Genomewide nested association mapping of quantitative resistance to northern leaf blight in maize jesse a. Interestingly, we observed three qtl for plant height that were identified at all three time points, some that were identified for two time points but also qtl that were specific for either ph1, ph2 or ph3 figure 3. Qtl mapping and candidate gene mining for soybean seed weight. Qtls are mapped by identifying which molecular markers such as snps or aflps correlate with an observed trait.
Quantitative trait locus qtl mapping has been applied to detect the genetic basis of salt tolerance in many plants 8, which provides valuable information for further. For cim, model 6 of zmaoqtl module was applied for detecting qtl and their effects. Linkage loci that are close enough together on the same chromosome to deviate from independent assortment are said to display genetic linkage 4. Qtl analysis using multienvironment phenotyping data from f. The desired bc 1f 1 plants are then selfpollinated to produce bc 1f 1.
Buckler, and jianming yu abstract there is tremendous interest in using association mapping to identify genes responsible for quantitative variation of complex traits with agricultural and evolutionary importance. Pdf crop modeling, qtl mapping, and their complementary. Aarts1 1laboratory 2 of genetics, wageningen university, droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 pb wageningen, the netherlands department 3. Qtl mapping in polyploid genomes summary single marker analysis sma involves ttest, anova, or linear regression approach interval mapping is based on joint segregation of a pair of adjacent markers cim is a combination of im and multiple regression and is desirable among the three qtl mapping in autopolyploids require different. Genotype environment interaction qtl mapping in plants. Review of statistical methods for qtl mapping in experimental crosses karl w. Qtl mapping in both plants and animals involves just a few basic steps 11. The progeny of 234 f2 plants and the two parents were planted in.
The objective of genetic mapping is to identify qtl responsible for natural phenotypic variation. Mapping of a major qtl for salt tolerance of mature field. Gent nahla bassil paul matthews emily buck ron beatson received. Qtl effects and dna marker polymorphisms are maximized by crossing diverse phenotypes, which often belong to different species or subspecies, and by constructing large experimental. Collect genotypic information on parents and offspring in the form of molecular markers scores. The genome was scanned every 1 cm between markers and putative qtls with a. Nils can serve as a valuable genetic mapping resource for maize breeders and geneticists. Qtl mapping according to the suttons chromosomal theory of inheritance, genes markers or loci segregate via chromosome recombination during meiosis i. The genome was scanned every 1 cm between markers and putative qtls with a window size of 10 cm.
The process of constructing linkage maps and conducting qtl analysis to identify genomic regions associated with traitsis known as qtl mapping 3 4. Progeny of plant 1 progeny of plant 2 coloured kernels, green plants 12 45. For example,if all the tall plants among 500 individual corn plants of varying height have a particular allele of a genetic marker,then there is a very high probability that a qtl for plant. Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci in crops. Qtl mapping for plant height in rice at multiple time points revealed many loci that were specific for one or a few of the time points. Qtl mapping studies have been reported in most crop plants for diverse. Oct 17, 2016 qtl mapping in polyploid genomes summary single marker analysis sma involves ttest, anova, or linear regression approach interval mapping is based on joint segregation of a pair of adjacent markers cim is a combination of im and multiple regression and is desirable among the three qtl mapping in autopolyploids require different. With qtl mapping, the roles of specific resistance loci can be described, racespecificity of partial resistance genes can be assessed, and interactions between resistance genes, plant development, and the environment can be analyzed.
Genetic mapping and qtl analysis for disease resistance. It will be a useful reference for conventional plant breeders, physiologists, pathologists and other plant scientists. It is implemented as an addon package for the freely available and widely used statistical languagesoftware r r development core team, 2010. Qtl mapping in eggplant reveals clusters of yieldrelated.
Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci in crops sciencedirect. Qtl mapping and its applications in crop plants 4 wheat and maize. Qtl mapping and its applications in crop plants 2 qtl mapping studies have been reported in most crop plants for diverse traits including yield, quality, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and environmental adaptation. Detect quantitative trait loci testing for association between a phenotypic trait and. By considering these qtl interactions in the qtl mapping model of.
The aim of qtl mapping is to identify regions of the. Highdensity snp linkage map construction and qtl mapping. Abstract quantitative trait locus qtl mapping is a highly effective approach for studying genetically complex forms of plant disease resistance. Pdf on apr 1, 2015, rukam singh tomar and others published introduction to qtl mapping in plants find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Genetic analysis of agronomic traits associated with plant. Qtgseq accelerates qtl fine mapping through qtl partitioning. With qtl mapping, the roles of specific resistance loci can be described, racespecificity of partial resistance genes can be assessed and interactions. A clear goal of highthroughput phenotyping is to bridge the gap between genomics and phenomics. Conceptually, a qtl can be a single gene, or it may be a group of linked genes that affect the trait. Each position in the genome, one at a time, is posited as the putative qtl.
Traditional qtl approach uses standard biparental mapping populations o f2 or ri these have a limited number of recombination events o result is that the qtl covers many cm additional steps required to narrow qtl or clone gene difficult to discover closely linked markers or the causative gene. Chapter 5 basics of linkage and gene mapping 45 chapter 5. Highdensity genetic map construction associated with quantitative trait locus qtl mapping provides an effective way to facilitate trait. Pdf introduction to qtl mapping in plants researchgate. The joint segregating patterns of markers, in conjunction with phenotypic and pedigree information, provides additional information about the genetic basis of quantitative traits, including the number and chromosomal locations of qtl, the mode of gene action, and sizes effects of individual qtl.
In this study, we quantified 106 traits from a maize zea mays recombinant inbred line population n. Locations of markers goals identify the or at least one genomic region, called quantitative trait locus qtl, that contributes to variation in the trait. For qtl mapping, common statistical tools and techniques employed in project management of complex and embedded systems pdf qtl analysis. A qtl is defined as a region of the genome or locus of gene that is associated with an effect on a quantitative trait. However, the traditional breeding method for selecting a cultivar with a high or unique flavonoid content is time consuming and labour intensive. Status and prospects of association mapping in plants chengsong zhu, michael gore, edward s. In crops like maize, a broad ruleofthethumb is to cover each of the chromosomal bin locations with at least one or two polymorphic molecular markers. A quantitative trait locus qtl is a locus section of dna that correlates with variation of a quantitative trait in the phenotype of a population of organisms. Currently, most ld mapping studies in plants use r2 for ld quantification because it also provides information about the correlation between markers and qtl of. Traditional qtl approach uses standard biparental mapping populations o f2 or ri these have a limited number of recombination events o result is that the qtl covers many cm additional steps required to narrow qtl or clone gene.
Mapping qtl for agronomic traits in breeding populations. With this new qtl mapping strategy, and jansen, 2001. This is often an early step in identifying and sequencing the actual genes that cause the trait variation. Marker assisted selection or marker aided selection mas is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker morphological, biochemical or dnarna variation linked to a trait of interest e. Additionally, the same type of segregating population derived from different parental lines likely provide different qtl identification results, including different location, number, and. Backcross bc, f 2, doubled haploid, testcross progenies, halfsib and fullsib families, f 2 derived lines, recombinant inbred lines. Analysis of the genetic basis of plant heightrelated. Quantitative trait locus qtl mapping with a highdensity genetic linkage map, including 2,496 recombinant bins, was used to uncover the genetic basis of these. Qtl mapping of powdery mildew susceptibility in hop humulus lupulus l. Buckler, and jianming yu abstract there is tremendous interest in using association mapping to identify genes responsible for quantitative variation of complex traits with. With increasing demand for novel traits in crop breeding, the plant research community faces the challenge of quantitatively analyzing the structure and function of large numbers of plants.
Review of statistical methods for qtl mapping in experimental. Introduction one of the many goals of plant geneticists and breeders pertains to the explanation of. Quantitative trait locus qtl mapping is a highly effective approach for studying genetically complex forms of plant disease resistance. Introduction many population structures have been used for qtl detection and mapping in plants. Introduction to quantitative trait locus qtl mapping. Mapping dynamic qtl for plant height in triticale bmc.