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- Title
Genome-Wide Association Study for Non-Photochemical Quenching Traits in Oryza sativa L.
- Authors
Wei, Youbo; Liu, Sicheng; Xiong, Dongliang; Xiong, Zhuang; Zhang, Zuolin; Wang, Fei; Huang, Jianliang
- Abstract
Manipulating the photoprotective mechanism has been demonstrated to be an effective way to enhance the photosynthetic productivity of crop plants. NPQ(T) is a chlorophyll fluorescence parameter for rapid estimation and imaging of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of excitons in the photoprotective mechanism. However, the variation and genetic basis of NPQ(T) are rarely reported in the Oryza sativa L. In this study, we collected 173 rice cultivars and investigated the NPQ(T) value. We found that the NPQ(T) has a wide variation, although it had not been under-selected in the different subspecies. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) utilizing 1,566,981 high-quality SNPs identified three significant associated signals on chromosomes 02, 05, and 07. Furthermore, one likely candidate gene Os02g0184100, underlying the associated signal on chromosome 02, was uncovered by identifying the expression pattern in flag leaves and testing the correlation between functional polymorphisms and phenotypic variation. The significant SNPs and candidate genes identified in this study provide us a comprehensive understanding of the genetic architecture of NPQ(T) and could be used for genetic improvement of rice photoprotection.
- Subjects
GENOME-wide association studies; GENE expression; GENETIC variation; CHLOROPHYLL spectra; CROPS
- Publication
Agronomy, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 12, p3216
- ISSN
2073-4395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/agronomy12123216