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0000-0003-4856-3147
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Jimma University
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Publisher: MDPI
Date: 09-04-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-12-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S00122-020-03727-5
Abstract: A large collection of Ethiopian sorghum landraces, characterized by agro-ecology and racial-group, was found to contain high levels of ersity and admixture, with significant SNP associations identified for environmental adaptation. Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench)] is a major staple food crop in Ethiopia, exhibiting extensive genetic ersity with adaptations to erse agroecologies. The environmental and climatic drivers, as well as the genomic basis of adaptation, are poorly understood in Ethiopian sorghum and are critical elements for the development of climate-resilient crops. Exploration of the genome-environment association (GEA) is important for identifying adaptive loci and predicting phenotypic variation. The current study aimed to better understand the GEA of a large collection of Ethiopian sorghum landraces (n = 940), characterized with genome-wide SNP markers, to investigate key traits related to adaptation to temperature, precipitation and altitude. The Ethiopian sorghum landrace collection was found to consist of 12 subpopulations with high levels of admixture (47%), representing all the major racial groups of cultivated sorghum with the exception of kafir. Redundancy analysis indicated that agroecology explained up to 10% of the total SNP variation, and geographical location up to 6%. GEA identified 18 significant SNP markers for environmental variables. These SNPs were found to be significantly enriched (P < 0.05) for a priori QTL for drought and cold adaptation. The findings from this study improve our understanding of the genetic control of adaptive traits in Ethiopian sorghum. Further, the Ethiopian sorghum germplasm collection provides sources of adaptation to harsh environments (cold and/or drought) that could be deployed in breeding programs globally for abiotic stress adaptation.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-09-2023
Location: Ethiopia
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