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- Title
Evidence for the Accumulation of Nonsynonymous Mutations and Favorable Pleiotropic Alleles During Wheat Breeding.
- Authors
Raherison, Elie; Majidi, Mohammad Mahdi; Goessen, Roos; Hughes, Nia; Cuthbert, Richard; Knox, Ron; Lukens, Lewis
- Abstract
Plant breeding leads to the genetic improvement of target traits by selecting a small number of genotypes from among typically large numbers of candidate genotypes after careful evaluation. In this study, we first investigated how mutations at conserved nucleotide sites normally viewed as deleterious, such as nonsynonymous sites, accumulated in a wheat, Triticum aestivum, breeding lineage. By comparing a 150 year old ancestral and modern cultivar, we found recent nucleotide polymorphisms altered amino acids and occurred within conserved genes at frequencies expected in the absence of purifying selection. Mutations that are deleterious in other contexts likely had very small or no effects on target traits within the breeding lineage. Second, we investigated if breeders selected alleles with favorable effects on some traits and unfavorable effects on others and used different alleles to compensate for the latter. An analysis of a segregating population derived from the ancestral and modern parents provided one example of this phenomenon. The recent cultivar contains the Rht-B1b green revolution semi-dwarfing allele and compensatory alleles that reduce its negative effects. However, improvements in traits other than plant height were due to pleiotropic loci with favorable effects on traits and to favorable loci with no detectable pleiotropic effects. Wheat breeding appears to tolerate mutations at conserved nucleotide sites and to only select for alleles with both favorable and unfavorable effects on traits in exceptional situations.
- Subjects
PLANT breeding; WHEAT breeding; WHEAT; GREEN Revolution; GENE frequency; AMINO acids; ALLELES
- Publication
G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 11, p4001
- ISSN
2160-1836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/g3.120.401269