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Assessing genetic variation for Fusarium wilt race 4 resistance in tetraploid cotton by screening over three thousand germplasm lines under greenhouse or controlled conditions

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Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most widely-grown natural fiber crop used by the textile industry. Fusarium wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (FOV) comprised of eight nominal pathogenic races, is one of the most destructive diseases in cotton. FOV race 4 (FOV4) is an emerging threat to cotton production in the US. In this study, a total of 3258 lines including 3080 Upland (G. hirsutum) and 178 Pima (G. barbadense) germplasm lines were evaluated in 21 tests under greenhouse or temperature-controlled conditions for resistance to FOV4. A total of 2224 lines from 13 tests were screened in a commercial potting soil in the greenhouse under higher temperature (HT) conditions (24–32 °C), while 1204 lines from 8 tests were screened in a naturally FOV4-infected farm soil at a lower temperature (LT) setting (20–21 °C), both with artificial inoculations. The 170 Pima lines were evaluated in both temperature regimes. The results showed that, at 30 days post inoculation, both temperature regimes produced similar disease incidence (81.2% for HT vs. 86.8% for LT), but LT caused significantly higher disease severity ratings (DSR, 3.86 vs. 1.94) and plant mortality (81.7% vs. 7.5%) than did HT. DSR and morality rate were highly significantly correlated (r = 0.849–0.941) at LT. Significant genotypic variations in DSR were detected in all studies except two, and the broad-sense heritability estimates for DSR were 0.59–0.83 with an average of 0.70 at HT and 0.61–0.72 with an average of 0.69 at LT, indicating that 70% the phenotypic variation in FOV4 resistance was determined by genetic variation. Using the naturally FOV4-infected farm soil and LT to screen 1034 Upland and 170 Pima germplasm lines (with 20–40 plants for each line) with artificial inoculations, 48% showed 100% mortality; 22% had a mortality rate between 70 and 99%; 5% had mortality below 30%; and 0.5% (6 lines) did not display any apparent FOV4 symptoms. The results indicated that many existing available germplasm lines may be heterogeneous for FOV4 resistance and pedigree selection within germplasm may increase frequencies of resistant plants. This study represents one of the first publicly reported large-scale screenings of cotton for FOV4 resistance in the US and provides useful information for breeding cotton with resistance to FOV4.

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  1. Jinfa Zhang, Abdelraheem Abdelraheem, and Yi Zhu have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA

    Jinfa Zhang, Abdelraheem Abdelraheem & Yi Zhu

  2. Texas A&M AgriLife Research, 1102 E. Drew Street, Lubbock, TX, 79403, USA

    Terry A. Wheeler & Jane K. Dever

  3. Crop Germplasm Research, USDA-ARS, 2881 F&B Road, College Station, TX, 77845, USA

    James Frelichowski & Janna Love

  4. Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Research, 3810 4th Street, Lubbock, TX, 79415, USA

    Mauricio Ulloa

  5. Crop Science Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Starkville, MS, USA

    Johnie N. Jenkins & Jack C. McCarty Jr.

  6. Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC, USA

    Robert Nichols & Tom Wedegaertner

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Zhang, J., Abdelraheem, A., Zhu, Y. et al. Assessing genetic variation for Fusarium wilt race 4 resistance in tetraploid cotton by screening over three thousand germplasm lines under greenhouse or controlled conditions. Euphytica 216, 108 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-020-02646-2

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