TY - JA AU - Xia Yang AU - Yubo Pan AU - Pawan Kumar Singh AU - Xinyao He AU - Yan Ren AU - Lei Zhao AU - Ning Zhang AU - Cheng Shun-He AU - Feng Chen TI - Investigation and genome-wide association study for Fusarium crown rot resistance in Chinese common wheat SN - 1471-2229 PY - 2019/// CY - London (United Kingdom) PB - BioMed Central KW - Soft wheat KW - AGROVOC KW - Fusarium KW - Disease resistance KW - Genomes KW - Quantitative Trait Loci N1 - Peer review; Open Access N2 - Background: Fusarium crown rot (FCR) is a severe and chronic disease in common wheat and is able to cause serious yield loss and health problems to human and livestock. Results: Here, 234 Chinese wheat cultivars were evaluated in four greenhouse experiments for FCR resistance and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were performed using the wheat 660K genotyping assay. The results indicated that most cultivars evaluated showed FCR disease index (DI) of 40-60, while some cultivars showed stably good FCR resistance (DI<30). GWAS identified 286 SNPs to be significantly associated with FCR resistance, of which 266, 6 and 8 were distributed on chromosomes 6A, 6B and 6D, respectively. The significant SNPs on 6A were located in a 7.0-Mb region containing 51 annotated genes. On the other hand, QTL mapping using a bi-parental population derived from UC1110 and PI610750 detected three QTLs on chromosomes 6A (explaining 7.77-10.17% of phenotypic variation), 2D (7.15-9.29%) and 2A (5.24-6.92%). The 6A QTL in the UC1110/PI610750 population falls into the same chromosomal region as those detected from GWAS, demonstrating its importance in Chinese materials for FCR resistance. Conclusion: This study could provide useful information for utilization of FCR-resistant wheat germplasm and further understanding of molecular and genetics basis of FCR resistance in common wheat UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/20147 T2 - BMC Plant Biology DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1758-2 ER -