Abstract
Cultivated barley is known to have a complex population structure and extensive linkage disequilibrium (LD). To conduct robust association mapping (AM) studies of economically important traits in US barley breeding germplasm, population structure and LD decay were examined in a complete panel of US barley breeding germplasm (3840 lines) genotyped with 3072 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Nine subpopulations (sp1-sp9) were identified by the program STRUCTURE and subsequently confirmed by principle component analysis (PCA). Out of the nine subpopulations, seven were very similar to the respective subpopulations identified by Hamblin et al. (2010) which were based on half of the germplasm and half of the SNP markers, but two subpopulations were found to be new One subpopulation was dominated by six-rowed spring lines from Utah State University (UT) and the other was composed of six-rowed spring lines from multiple breeding programs (USDA-ARS Aberdeen (AB), Busch Agricultural Resources Inc. (BA), UT, and Washington State University (WA)). LD was found to decay across a range from 4.0 to 19.8 cM. This result indicates that the germplasm genotyped with 3072 SNPs would be robust for mapping and possibly identifying the causal polymorphisms contributing to disease resistance and perhaps other traits.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 438-451 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Project supported by the Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (No. USDA-CSREES-2006-55606-16722) of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Lieberman-Okinow Endowment at the University of Minnesota, USA © Zhejiang University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Keywords
- Association mapping (AM)
- Linkage disequilibrium (LD)
- Structure