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Genetic analysis of maydis leaf blight resistance in subtropical maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm

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Knowledge on the genetics of maydis leaf blight (MLB) is crucial to breed the resistant maize cultivars to combat disease epidemics as a sustainable and cost-effective approach. The present investigation was framed to understand the genetics of MLB resistance in subtropical maize. Two contrasting genotypes CM119 (susceptible) and SC-7-2-1-2-6-1 (resistant) were used to generate six genetic populations, namely P1, P2, F1, F2, BC1P1 and BC1P2, and evaluated in three target environments for MLB resistance under artificial epiphytotic condition. The CM119 and SC-7-2-1-2-6-1 showed susceptible and resistant reactions with mean disease reaction of 3.89–3.98 and 1.88–2.00, respectively. The derived generations, namely F1, F2, BC1P1 and BC1P2 showed mean disease reaction of 2.15–2.28, 2.44–2.51, 2.19–2.24 and 2.22–2.28, respectively in the test locations. The segregating generations (F2: 0.35–0.37; BC1P1: 0.24–0.29 and BC1P2: 0.17–0.20) showed variation for MLB disease resistance over the parental and first filial generations (P1: 0.11–0.17; P2: 0.08–0.13 and F1: 0.12–0.14). The genetic analysis of MLB resistance revealed the nonallelic interactions of duplicate epistasis type across the test locations. Among the gene interactions, dominance × dominance [l] effect was predominant over additive × additive [i] and additive × dominance [j] effects. The segregation analysis and the prediction of the number of major loci revealed at least two major genes associated with MLB tolerance in subtropical maize. Our investigation paved the foundation for the improvement of subtropical maize germplasm of MLB resistance.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi and Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi for their financial support. The authors graciously thank Dr S. N. Rai, CTO for his assistance in field experiments.

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  1. JB, RG, MC, RH, DR and MGM have conducted the experiments. JB, RG, and MGM developed the generations. JB and RG recorded the data. MGM and DS analysed the data. MGM, JB, RG and KKM drafted the manuscript. RG and MGM designed the experiment.

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  1. Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110 012, India

    B. Jeevan, Robin Gogoi, C. Manjunatha, H. Rajashekara & Dama Ram

  2. ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, 263 601, India

    B. Jeevan, Devender Sharma, H. Rajashekara & K. K. Mishra

  3. Regional Station, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wellington (Nilgiris), 643 231, India

    C. Manjunatha

  4. College of Agriculture, Agriculture University, Jodhpur, 342 304, India

    Dama Ram

  5. Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110 012, India

    M. G. Mallikarjuna

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Jeevan, B., Gogoi, R., Sharma, D. et al. Genetic analysis of maydis leaf blight resistance in subtropical maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm. J Genet 99, 89 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-020-01245-3

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