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ArticlePloS one2016

Tracing QTLs for Leaf Blast Resistance and Agronomic Performance of Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) Genotypes through Association Mapping and in silico Comparative Genomics Analyses.

M Ramakrishnan, S Antony Ceasar, V Duraipandiyan, K K Vinod, Krishnan Kalpana, N A Al-Dhabi, S Ignacimuthu

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Improvement of millets in the post-genomic era.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2022
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  8. Identification of QTL for resistance to leaf blast in foxtail millet by genome re-sequencing analysis.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2021
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  9. Pharmaco-chemical profiling ofFuture journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2021
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  11. Finger Millet [Frontiers in plant science · 2018
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

M RamakrishnanDivision of Plant Biotechnology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, India.
S Antony CeasarDivision of Plant Biotechnology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, India.
V DuraipandiyanDivision of Plant Biotechnology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, India.
K K VinodRice Breeding and Genetics Research Centre, Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Aduthurai, India.
Krishnan KalpanaRegional Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Paiyur, India.
N A Al-DhabiDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Addiriyah Chair for Environmental Studies, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
S IgnacimuthuDivision of Plant Biotechnology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, India.
King Saud University · SAIndian Agricultural Research Institute · INTamil Nadu Agricultural University · INUniversity of Leeds · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finger millet is one of the small millets with high nutritive value. This crop is vulnerable to blast disease caused by Pyricularia grisea, which occurs annually during rainy and winter seasons. Leaf blast occurs at early crop stage and is highly damaging. Mapping of resistance genes and other quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for agronomic performance can be of great use for improving finger millet genotypes. Evaluation of one hundred and twenty-eight finger millet genotypes in natural field conditions revealed that leaf blast caused severe setback on agronomic performance for susceptible genotypes, most significant traits being plant height and root length. Plant height was reduced under disease severity while root length was increased. Among the genotypes, IE4795 showed superior response in terms of both disease resistance and better agronomic performance. A total of seven unambiguous QTLs were found to be associated with various agronomic traits including leaf blast resistance by association mapping analysis. The markers, UGEP101 and UGEP95, were strongly associated with blast resistance. UGEP98 was associated with tiller number and UGEP9 was associated with root length and seed yield. Cross species validation of markers revealed that 12 candidate genes were associated with 8 QTLs in the genomes of grass species such as rice, foxtail millet, maize, Brachypodium stacei, B. distachyon, Panicum hallii and switchgrass. Several candidate genes were found proximal to orthologous sequences of the identified QTLs such as 1,4-β-glucanase for leaf blast resistance, cytokinin dehydrogenase (CKX) for tiller production, calmodulin (CaM) binding protein for seed yield and pectin methylesterase inhibitor (PMEI) for root growth and development. Most of these QTLs and their putatively associated candidate genes are reported for first time in finger millet. On validation, these novel QTLs may be utilized in future for marker assisted breeding for the development of fungal resistant and high yielding varieties of finger millet.

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Computer SimulationCrop ProductionDisease ResistanceEleusineGenome-Wide Association StudyGenotypePlant DiseasesPlant LeavesPyricularia griseaQuantitative Trait Loci

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