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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 61(2)

QTLs and their interaction determining different heading dates of barley in Australia and China

Xifeng Ren A , Chengdao Li B D , W. J. R. Boyd C , Sharon Westcott B , C. R. Grime C , Dongfa Sun A D and Reg Lance B
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A College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.

B Department of Agriculture & Food/Agricultural Research Western Australia, 3 Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA 6155, Australia.

C Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.

D Corresponding authors. Email: chengdao.li@agric.wa.gov.au; sundongfa@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Crop and Pasture Science 61(2) 145-152 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP09187
Submitted: 29 June 2009  Accepted: 4 December 2009   Published: 8 February 2010

Abstract

Heading date is a major determinant of the regional and seasonal adaptation of barley varieties. The dogma is that introduced germplasm is more likely to be adapted if it is derived from a similar latitude. However, barley germplasm introduced from similar latitudes of South-East Asia is extremely early heading in the Australian environments and vice versa. A doubled-haploid population from a cross of an Australian barley Galleon and a Japanese barley Haruna Nijo was evaluated for heading date in Australia (Perth, 31°56′S) and China (Wuhan, 30°33′N) under normal autumn sowing, late sowing in the field, and extended-light glasshouse conditions. One major QTL was identified on chromosome 5H under the three conditions in China. The single QTL accounted for up to 50% of phenotypic variation for heading date. The Australian variety contributed to late heading date. Two QTLs on chromosomes 4H and 5H were detected for controlling heading date in Australia. The QTL/QTL interaction contributed up to 35.8% of phenotypic variation for heading date in Australia, which is the major reason for the extremely early heading date of the Japanese variety in the Australian environment. The chromosome 5H QTL was detected at the same chromosomal location when the population was grown in either China or Australia. In both environments the Australian variety contributed to the late heading date. Selection against the Japanese alleles of chromosomes 4H and 5H QTLs could eliminate the extremely early genotype in Australia and selection against the Australian allele of chromosome 5H QTL could eliminate the extremely late genotype in China when Australian and Japanese germplasms are used in the breeding programs.

Additional keywords: quantitative trait loci, QTL/QTL interaction, heading date, MAS, Hordeum vulgare.


Acknowledgments

This project is partially supported by the Grain Research & Development Corporation of Australia, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30630047), and the China 863 project (2006AA10Z1C3).


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