Screening and analysis of candidate genes conferring alkalinity tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) at the bud burst stage based on QTL-seq and RNA-seq.

Jiangxu Wang; Jingyang Bian; Linshuai Liu; Shiwei Gao; Qing Liu; Yanjiang Feng; Lili Shan; Junxiang Guo; Guiling Wang; Shichen Sun; Hui Jiang; Lei Chen; Lei Lei; Kai Liu

Background: Soil salinization is one of the key factors restricting the production of cropland. Once rice is subjected to alkali stress at the bud burst stage, the yield will suffer irreparable serious loss. Compared with salt tolerance, studies on QTL mapping and candidate gene analysis of rice alkali tolerance are limited. Results: In this study, we used the F2:3 population derived from the alkali-tolerant cultivar LD21 and the alkali-sensitive cultivar WL138 to construct an alkali-tolerant DNA mixing pool, and the BSA (Bulked Segregation Analysis) method was used for re-sequencing. The main QTL qRSLB9 controlling the relative shoot length of rice under alkali stress was mapped by QTL-seq. The candidate interval was narrowed to 346.5 kb by regional linkage mapping, which containing 6 DEGs screened through transcriptome sequencing. The qRT-PCR and candidate gene sequencing showed that LOC_Os09g24260 was most likely to control relative shoot length (RSL) in rice as a major gene who encodes the WD domain, G-beta repeat domain-containing protein. Conclusions: Based on these results, LOC_Os09g24260 was the candidate gene of qRSLB9 conferring alkalinity tolerance to rice at the bud burst stage. Our study provides valuable genetic information and materials for breeding new rice varieties with alkalinity tolerance

SOIL salinization; GENE mapping; RICE breeding; FACTORS of production; ALKALINITY; RICE

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 2024, Vol 71, p63

0717-3458

Academic Journal

10.1016/j.ejbt.2024.07.002