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Genomic diversity in pearl millet inbred lines derived from landraces and improved varieties

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-06796-4
doi:10.1186/s12864-020-06796-4
 
Title Genomic diversity in pearl millet inbred lines derived from landraces and improved varieties
 
Creator Kanfany, G
Serba, D D
Rhodes, D
St. Amand, P
Bernardo, A
Gangashetty, P I
Kane, N A
Bai, G
 
Subject Plant Breeding
Pearl Millet
Genetics and Genomics
 
Description Background: Genetic improvement of pearl millet is lagging behind most of the major crops. Development of
genomic resources is expected to expedite breeding for improved agronomic traits, stress tolerance, yield, and
nutritional quality. Genotyping a breeding population with high throughput markers enables exploration of genetic
diversity, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium (LD) which are important preludes for marker-trait
association studies and application of genomic-assisted breeding.
Results: Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) libraries of 309 inbred lines derived from landraces and improved
varieties from Africa and India generated 54,770 high quality single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. On
average one SNP per 29 Kb was mapped in the reference genome, with the telomeric regions more densely
mapped than the pericentromeric regions of the chromosomes. Population structure analysis using 30,208 SNPs
evenly distributed in the genome divided 309 accessions into five subpopulations with different levels of admixture.
Pairwise genetic distance (GD) between accessions varied from 0.09 to 0.33 with the average distance of 0.28. Rapid
LD decay implied low tendency of markers inherited together. Genetic differentiation estimates were the highest
between subgroups 4 and 5, and the lowest between subgroups 1 and 2.
Conclusions: Population genomic analysis of pearl millet inbred lines derived from diverse geographic and
agroecological features identified five subgroups mostly following pedigree differences with different levels of
admixture. It also revealed the prevalence of high genetic diversity in pearl millet, which is very useful in defining
heterotic groups for hybrid breeding, trait mapping, and holds promise for improving pearl millet for yield and
nutritional quality. The short LD decay observed suggests an absence of persistent haplotype blocks in pearl millet. The
diverse genetic background of these lines and their low LD make this set of germplasm useful for traits mapping.
 
Publisher BMC
 
Date 2020-07
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11764/1/s12864-020-06796-4.pdf
Kanfany, G and Serba, D D and Rhodes, D and St. Amand, P and Bernardo, A and Gangashetty, P I and Kane, N A and Bai, G (2020) Genomic diversity in pearl millet inbred lines derived from landraces and improved varieties. BMC Genomics (TSI), 21 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1471-2164