Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-9pm4c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T10:01:58.910Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Exploring the breeding potential of Iranian emmer wheats to increase durum wheat tolerance to drought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2021

Majid Mohammadi ,
Aghafakhr Mirlohi Open the ORCID record for Aghafakhr Mirlohi [Opens in a new window] ,
Mohammad Mahdi Majidi  and
Ali Rabbani
Majid Mohammadi
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan84156-83111, Iran
Aghafakhr Mirlohi*
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan84156-83111, Iran
Mohammad Mahdi Majidi
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan84156-83111, Iran
Ali Rabbani
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan84156-83111, Iran
*
Author for correspondence: Aghafakhr Mirlohi, E-mail: mirlohi@iut.ac.ir
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccum) is one of the most promising gene sources for drought tolerance improvement of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum). Achieving desired results requires a conscious choice of crossing parents based on general and specific combining ability (GCA and SCA) and also understanding the genes action involved in controlling the desired traits. In this study a 12 × 12 full diallel cross was performed using four emmer and eight durum wheats. The 132 hybrid progenies along with their parental lines were field evaluated under water-stressed and non-stressed conditions. Based on the Griffing diallel analysis both GCA and SCA effects were highly significant for all measured traits under both water treatments indicating possibility of improvement for drought tolerance. In this respect, the amount of additive effect was higher than the non-additive suggesting the chance for genetic advancement through selection. Based on Hayman's graphical analyses under the two water conditions it was revealed that several grain yield component traits were under the control of partial dominance. In contrary, grain yield and most morphological traits showed either dominance or over-dominance gene action. Grain yield had a significant positive correlation with the number of kernels per spike, kernel diameter, grain weight per spike and harvest index. These traits also had greater share of additive effects, relatively high narrow-sense heritability and high Baker ratio suggesting effective indirect selection for grain yield. Most durum × emmer hybrids had grain yield and drought tolerance indices better than the parents indicating that Iranian emmer wheats have a great genetic potential for drought tolerance improvement of durum wheat.

Keywords

Combining abilitydrought tolerancegene actiongenetic bottleneckTriticum turgidum ssp. dicoccum
Type
Research Article
Information
Plant Genetic Resources , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , August 2021 , pp. 363 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of NIAB

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allen, RG, Pereira, LS, Raes, D and Smith, M (1998) Crop evapotranspiration – Guidelines for computing crop water requirements – FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56. Fao, Rome 300, D05109.Google Scholar
Baker, RJ (1978) Issues in diallel analysis. Crop Science 18, 533–536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ceccarelli, S (2015) Efficiency of plant breeding. Crop Science 55, 87–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Christie, BR and Shattuck, VI (1992) The diallel cross: design, analysis, and use for plant breeders. Plant Breeding Reviews 9, 9–36.Google Scholar
Ebrahimiyan, M, Majidi, MM, Mirlohi, A and Gheysari, M (2012) Drought-tolerance indices in a tall fescue population and its polycross progenies. Crop Pasture Science 63, 360–369.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ferreira, LU, Melo, PGS, Vieira, RF, Junior, ML, Pereira, HS and De souza, TLPO (2018) Combining ability as a strategy for selecting common bean parents and populations resistant to white mold. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 18, 276–283.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fischer, RA and Rebetzke, GJ (2018) Indirect selection for potential yield in early-generation, spaced plantings of wheat and other small-grain cereals: a review. Crop and Pasture Science 69, 439–459.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Flexas, J, Galmes, J, Galle, A, Gulias, J, Pou, A, Ribas-Carbo, M, Tomas, M and Medrano, H (2010) Improving water use efficiency in grapevines: potential physiological targets for biotechnological improvement. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 16, 106–121.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fu, YB and Somers, DJ (2009) Genome-wide reduction of genetic diversity in wheat breeding. Crop Science 49, 161–168.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gowda, M, Kling, C, Würschum, T, Liu, W, Maurer, HP, Hahn, V and Reif, JC (2010) Hybrid breeding in durum wheat: heterosis and combining ability. Crop Science 50, 2224–2230.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Griffing, B (1956) Concept of general and specific combining ability in relation to diallel crossing systems. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 9, 463–493.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hayman, BI (1954) The analysis of variance of diallel tables. Biometrics 10, 235–244.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kozak, M and Piepho, HP (2018) What's normal anyway? Residual plots are more telling than significance tests when checking ANOVA assumptions. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 204, 86–98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lopes, MS, El-Basyoni, I, Baenziger, PS, Singh, S, Royo, C, Ozbek, K, Aktas, H, Ozer, E, Ozdemir, F, Manickavelu, A, Ban, T and Vikram, P (2015) Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change. Journal of Experimental Botany 66, 3477–3486.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lucas, SJ, Salantur, A, Yazar, S and Budak, H (2017) High-throughput SNP genotyping of modern and wild emmer wheat for yield and root morphology using a combined association and linkage analysis. Functional & Integrative Genomics 17, 667–685.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Makumbi, D, Alvarado, G, Crossa, J and Burgueño, J (2018) Sashaydiall: A SAS program for Hayman's diallel analysis. Crop Science 58, 1605–1615.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Malchikov, PN and Myasnikova, MG (2016) Formation of gene associations that code for general homeostasis and performance components of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.). Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research 6, 357–366.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malik, WA and Piepho, HP (2018) Biplots: Do not stretch them! Crop Science 58, 1061–1069.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mather, K and Jinks, JL (1982) Introduction to Biometrical Genetics, 3rd Edn, London: Chapman and Hall Ltd.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Millet, E, Levy, AA, Avivi, L, Zamir, R and Feldman, M (1984) Evidence for maternal effect in the inheritance of grain protein in crosses between cultivated and wild tetraploid wheats. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 67, 521–524.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mohammadi, R (2016) Efficiency of yield-based drought tolerance indices to identify tolerant genotypes in durum wheat. Euphytica 211, 71–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mondal, S, Rutkoski, JE, Velu, G, Singh, PK, Crespo-Herrera, LA, Guzman, C, Bhavani, S, Lan, C, He, X and Singh, RP (2016) Harnessing diversity in wheat to enhance grain yield, climate resilience, disease and insect pest resistance and nutrition through conventional and modern breeding approaches. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 991.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mwadzingeni, L, Shimelis, H and Tsilo, TJ (2018) Combining ability and gene action controlling yield and yield components in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under drought-stressed and nonstressed conditions. Plant Breeding 137, 502–513.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mwadzingeni, L, Shimelis, H, Dube, E, Laing, MD and Tsilo, TJ (2016) Breeding wheat for drought tolerance: progress and technologies. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 15, 935–943.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peleg, Z, Fahima, T, Krugman, T, Abbo, S, Yakir, D, Korol, AB and Saranga, Y (2009) Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population. Plant, Cell and Environment 32, 758–779.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Peng, JH, Sun, D and Nevo, E (2011) Domestication evolution, genetics and genomics in wheat. Molecular Breeding 28, 281–301.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reif, JC, Gumpert, FM, Fischer, S and Melchinger, AE (2007) Impact of interpopulation divergence on additive and dominance variance in hybrid populations. Genetics 176, 1931–1934.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ryan, BF, Joiner, BL and Cryer, JD (2012) MINITAB Handbook: Update for Release 16 (6th Ed.). Boston, MA: Brooks/Cole.Google Scholar
SAS Institute (2014) SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System: User's Guide. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.Google Scholar
Sharma, S, Upadhyaya, HD, Varshney, RK and Gowda, CLL (2013) Pre-breeding for diversification of primary gene pool and genetic enhancement of grain legumes. Frontiers in Plant Science 4, 309.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sheibanirad, A, Mirlohi, A, Mohammadi, R, Ehsanzadeh, P and Sayed-Tabatabaei, BE (2014) Cytogenetic and crossability studies in hulled wheat collected from central Zagros in Iran. Plant Systematics and Evolution 300, 1895–1901.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sobhaninan, N, Heidari, B, Tahmasebi, S, Dadkhodaie, A and McIntyre, CL (2019) Response of quantitative and physiological traits to drought stress in the SeriM82/Babax wheat population. Euphytica 215, 32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Solomon, KF and Labuschagne, MT (2004) Inheritance of evapotranspiration and transpiration efficiencies in diallel F1 hybrids of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum). Euphytica 136, 69–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Subira, J, Álvaro, F, García del Moral, LF and Royo, C (2015) Breeding effects on the cultivar×environment interaction of durum wheat yield. European Journal of Agronomy 68, 78–88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Topal, A, Aydin, C, Akgün, N and Babaoglu, M (2004) Diallel cross analysis in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.): identification of best parents for some kernel physical features. Field Crops Research 87, 1–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vaghar, M and Ehsanzadeh, P (2018) Comparative photosynthetic attributes of emmer and modern wheats in response to water and nitrogen supply. Photosynthetica 56, 1224–1234.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zadoks, JC, Chang, TT and Konzak, CF (1974) A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals. Weed Research 14, 415–421.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zaharieva, M, Ayana, NG, Hakimi, AA, Misra, SC and Monneveux, P (2010) Cultivated emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank), an old crop with promising future: a review. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 57, 937–962.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhang, Y, Kang, MS and Lamkey, KR (2005) DIALLEL-SAS05: A Comprehensive Program for Griffing's and Gardner-Eberhart Analyses. Agronomy Journal 97, 1097–1106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Supplementary material: File

Mohammadi et al. supplementary material

Tables S1-S6 and Figures S1-S5

Download Mohammadi et al. supplementary material(File)
File 4.3 MB