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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2016, Vol. 15 Issue (12): 2688-2702    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(16)61427-2
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Genetic dissection of the developmental behavior of plant height in rice under different water supply conditions
WANG Jiang-xu*, SUN Jian*, LI Cheng-xin, LIU Hua-long, WANG Jing-guo, ZHAO Hong-wei, ZOU De-tang
College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, P.R.China
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Abstract      Plant height (PH) is one of the most important agronomic traits of rice, as it directly affects the lodging resistance and the high yield potential. Meanwhile, PH is often constrained by water supply over the entire growth period. In this study, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) derived from Xiaobaijingzi and Kongyu 131 strains grown under drought stress and with normal irrigation over 2 yr (2013 and 2014), respectively (regarded as four environments), was used to dissect the genetic basis of PH by developmental dynamics QTL analysis combined with QTL×environment interactions. QTLs with net effects excluding the accumulated effects were detected to explore the relationship between gene×gene interactions and gene×environment interactions in specific growth period. A total of 26 additive QTLs (A-QTLs) and 37 epistatic QTLs (E-QTLs) associated with PH were detected by unconditional and conditional mapping over seven growth periods. qPH-2-3, qPH-4-3, qPH-6-1, qPH-7-1, and qPH-12-5 could be detected by both unconditional and conditional analyses. qPH-4-3 and qPH-7-5 were detected in four stages (periods) to be sequentially expressed QTLs controlling PH continuous variation. QTLs with additive effects (A-QTLs) were mostly expressed in the period S3|S2 (the time interval from stages 2 to 3), and QTL×environment interactions performed actively in the first three stages (periods) which could be an important developmental period for rice to undergo external morphogenesis during drought stress. Several QTLs showed high adaptability for drought stress and many QTLs were closely related to the environments such as qPH-3-5, qPH-2-2 and qPH-6-1. 72.5% of the QTLs with a and aa effects detected by conditional analysis were under drought stress, and the PVE of QTLs detected by conditional analysis under drought stress were also much higher than that under normal irrigation. We infer that environments would influence the detection results and sequential expression of genes was highly influenced by environments as well. Many QTLs (qPH-1-2, qPH-3-5, qPH-4-1, qPH-2-3) coincident with previously identified drought resistance genes. The result of this study is helpful to elucidating the genetic mechanism and regulatory network underlying the development of PH in rice and providing references to marker assisted selection.
Keywords:  rice        plant height        drought stress        QTL        developmental behavior        environment interactions  
Received: 07 December 2015   Accepted:
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This work was supported by the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2013BAD20B04).

Corresponding Authors:  ZOU De-tang, Tel: +86-451-55190292, E-mail: zoudt@163.com   
About author:  WANG Jiang-xu, Mobile: +86-13946190937, Tel: +86-451-55190292, E-mail: jiangwang39@sina.com; SUN Jian, E-mail: sunjian234@163.com;

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WANG Jiang-xu, SUN Jian, LI Cheng-xin, LIU Hua-long, WANG Jing-guo, ZHAO Hong-wei, ZOU De-tang. 2016. Genetic dissection of the developmental behavior of plant height in rice under different water supply conditions. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 15(12): 2688-2702.

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