A Genome-Wide Association Study of Senegalese Sorghum Seedlings Responding to Pathotype 5 of Sporisorium reilianum. Academic Article

abstract

• Sporisorium reilianum is a fungal pathogen that causes head smut in sorghum. In addition to pathotypes (P) 1-4, P5 and P6 were identified recently. In this study, seedlings of Senegalese sorghum, comprising 163 accessions, were evaluated for response to Sporisorium reilianum. Teliospores of pathotype P5 of the pathogen in dilute agar were pipetted onto seedling shoots while still in soil, and inoculated seedlings were submerged under water at 4 days post-inoculation. Signs of infection (noticeable spots) on the first leaf were checked daily up to 6 days post submergence. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted using 193,727 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) throughout the genome based on two types of phenotypic data: whether noticeable spots were shown or not and the average time for an observation of the spots across 163 accessions. When mapped back to the reference sorghum genome, most of the top candidate SNP loci were associated with plant defense or plant stress response-related genes. The identified SNP loci were associated with spot appearance in sorghum seedlings under flooding following inoculation with P5 of Sporisorium reilianum.

authors

• Magill, Clint

published proceedings

• Plants (Basel)

author list (cited authors)

• Ahn, E., Fall, C., Prom, L. K., & Magill, C.

complete list of authors

• Ahn, Ezekiel||Fall, Coumba||Prom, Louis K||Magill, Clint

publication date

• November 2022

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Plants  Journal

keywords

• Gwas
• Headsmut
• Pathotype 5
• Seedling
• Senegalese Accessions
• Sorghum
• Sporisorium Reilianum

PubMed Central ID

• 36365456

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/plants11212999

start page

• 2999

end page

• 2999

volume

• 11

issue

• 21

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11212999