Genome-wide association studies and prediction of traits related to phenology, biomass and cell wall composition in Miscanthus sinensis.

Gancho Trifonu Slavov, Rick Nipper, Paul Russell Robson, Kerrie Farrar, Gordon Graham Allison, Maurice Bosch, John Cedric Clifton-Brown, Iain Simon Donnison, Elaine Fiona Jensen

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Increasing demands for food and energy require a step change in the effectiveness, speed and flexibility of crop breeding. The aim of this study was therefore to assess the potential of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and genomic selection (i.e., phenotype prediction from a genome-wide set of markers) to guide fundamental plant science and accelerate breeding in the energy grass Miscanthus. We generated over 100,000 single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) by sequencing restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) tags in 138 M. sinensis genotypes and related SNVs to phenotypic data for 17 traits measured in a field trial. Confounding by population structure and relatedness was severe in naïve GWAS analyses, but mixed-linear models robustly controlled for these effects and allowed us to detect multiple associations that reached genome-wide significance after Bonferroni corrections. Genome-wide prediction accuracies tended to be moderate to high (average = 0.57) but varied dramatically across traits (range = 0.05-0.95). As expected, predictive abilities (1) were correlated with broad-sense heritabilities (r > 0.57, P < 0.018); (2) increased linearly with the size of the mapping population, but reached a plateau when the number of markers used for prediction exceeded 10,000-20,000; and (3) tended to decline, but remain significant, when cross-validations were performed across subpopulations. Our results suggest that the immediate implementation of genomic selection in Miscanthus breeding programs may be feasible.
Iaith wreiddiolSaesneg
TudalennauW422
StatwsCyhoeddwyd - 11 Ion 2014
DigwyddiadPlant & Animal Genome XXII Conference - San Diego, Unol Daleithiau America
Hyd: 10 Ion 201415 Ion 2014

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CynhadleddPlant & Animal Genome XXII Conference
Gwlad/TiriogaethUnol Daleithiau America
DinasSan Diego
Cyfnod10 Ion 201415 Ion 2014

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