DArT-based evaluation of soybean germplasm from Polish Gene Bank

Elzbieta Czembor, Jerzy H Czembor, Commonwealth (CSIRO), Nathan S Watson-Haigh

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Soybean is an important plant used for food, feed and many industrial purposes. Interest in soybean breeding is growing in Central Europe, including Poland. A very large number of soybean accessions are stored in gene banks, but less than 1% of them have been used for breeding. Here, we present genotypic data as well as phenotypic data on plant and seed performance, including seed chlorophyll fluorescence traits, and on yield components within a collection of soybean accessions that are conserved in the Polish Gene Bank at the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute-National Research Institute.

RESULTS: The materials used consisted of sub-collections: 79 Polish genotypes, including old traditional cultivars, 24 Canadian, 21 American, 21 Swedish and 31 from Central and Eastern European Countries, 9 from France and 6 from Japan. In total, 9602 high quality SNPs were derived from DArTseq, a method utilising GBS technology. GWAS, performed with the BLINK model, revealed that a total of 41 significant SNPs were mapped for days to flowering, flower colour, plant height, days to pod formation, 100 seed weight, pod colour, seeds and hilum colour and steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence under light (Ft_Lss). This is the first report about the diversity of traditional old Polish soybean cultivars.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)343
JournalBMC Research Notes
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished or Issued - 30 Aug 2021

Keywords

  • Canada
  • Genome, Plant
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Plant Breeding
  • Poland
  • Soybeans/genetics
  • United States

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