Genome-wide identification of R genes and exploitation of candidate RGA markers in rice

By scanning the whole genomic sequence of japonica rice using 45 known plant disease resistance (R) genes, we identified 2119 resistance gene homologs or analogs (RGAs) and verified that RGAs are not randomly distributed but tend to cluster in the rice genome. The RGAs were classified into 21 families according to their functional domain based on Hidden Markov model (HMM). By comparing the RGAs of japonica rice with the whole genomlc sequence of indica rice, we found 702 RGAs allelic between the two subspecies and revealed that 671 (95.6%) of them have length difference (InDels) in their genomic sequences (including coding and non-coding regions) between the two subspecies, suggesting that RGAs are highly polymorphic between the two subspecies in rice. We also exploited 402 PCR-based and co-dominant candidate RGA markers by designing primer pairs on the regions flanking the lnDels and validating them via e-PCR. The length differences of the candidate RGA markers between the two subspecies are from 1 to 742 hp, with an average of 10.26 hp. All related information of the RGAs is available from our web site(http://ibi.zju.edu.cn/RGAs/index.html).     

Advances on methods for mapping QTL in plant

Advances on methods for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) are firstly summarized. Then, some new methods, including mapping multiple QTL, fine mapping of QTL, and mapping QTL for dynamic traits, are mainly described. Finally, some future prospects are proposed, including how to dig novel genes in the germplasm resource, map expression QTL (eQTL) by the use of all markers, phenotypes and micro-array data, identify QTL using genetic mating designs and detect viability loci. The purpose is to direct plant geneticists to choose a suitable method in the inheritance analysis of quantitative trait and in search of novel genes in germplasm resource so that more potential genetic information can be uncovered.     

A new statistical method for mapping QTLs underlying endosperm traits

Genetic expression for an endosperm trait in seeds of cereal crops may be controlled simultaneously by the triploid endosperm genotypes and the diploid maternal genotypes. However, current statistical methods for mapping quantitative trait loci （QTLs） underlying endosperm traits have not been effective in dealing with the putative maternal genetic effects. Combining the quantitative genetic model for diploid maternal traits with triploid endosperm traits, here we propose a new statistical method for mapping QTLs controlling endosperm traits with maternal genetic effects. This method applies the data set of both DNA molecular marker genotypes of each plant in segregation population and the quantitative observations of single endosperms in each plant to map QTL. The maximum likelihood method implemented via the expectation-maximization algorithm was used to the estimate parameters of a putative QTL. Since this method involves the maternal effect that may contribute to endosperm traits, it might be more congruent with the genetics of endosperm traits and more helpful to increasing the precision of QTL mapping. The simulation results show the proposed method provides accurate estimates of the QTL effects and locations with high statistical power.     

南京椴群体遗传多样性和遗传结构分析

【目的】 南京椴(Tilia miqueliana)为江苏省重要的乡土树种,野外资源稀缺。南京椴野外群体遗传多样性和遗传结构的探索,可为资源保护、品种选育及遗传改良提供依据。【方法】 以南京椴5个天然群体[江苏宝华山(P1)、牛首山(P2)、安徽皇藏峪(P3)、安徽蜀山(P4)和浙江天台山(P5)]93个体为实验材料,选用15对多态性EST-SSR引物,进行遗传多样性及群体遗传结构分析。【结果】 ①用15对引物共检测等位基因数(A)总和为96,平均值为6.4,四倍体基因型(G)和四倍体特异基因型(G_i)总和分别为441和251,特异基因型比率(R₁)和种质鉴别率(R₂)均值分别为45.73%和17.99%。②在5个群体中,每个位点等位基因数(A_loc)和四倍体基因型丰富度均值(G_loc)分别为5.50±2.43和9.41±4.29;平均观测杂合度(H_o)和平均期望杂合度(H_e)为0.61±1.43和0.62±0.14。参考各群体G_loc和H_e值,确定遗传多样性较高的群体为P1和P3。③群体间遗传分化较小,遗传分化系数(G_st)仅为0.030;AMOVA分子变异分析显示,群体多样性水平变异来自于群体内(96%)。④聚类和遗传结构Structure分析显示,5个群体可划分为2组(组1包括P1、P2和P5;组2包括P3和P4)。Mental检验结果表明遗传距离与地理距离之间无显著相关。【结论】 南京椴群体均具有丰富的遗传多样性,其中宝华山群体和皇藏峪群体多样性较高,群体扩张可能是以这两个种群为中心,经人类活动迁移至其他区域。但南京椴群体间未形成明显分化,主要是由于植株寿命长,群体缺乏自然更新,加之群体间存在人为种子传播。因此,本研究提出通过建立隔离区,明确优先保护群体、加大植株异交,并采用人工繁育及种质回迁的方式保护南京椴野外群体。     

A genome scan for quantitative trait loci affecting grain yield and its components of maize both in single-and two-locus levels

Maize is one of the most important cereal crops in the world. The hybrid yield advantage is responsible for about 10 percent of the total global maize production of 550 Mt[1]. It is exigent to study the yield traits so as to improve the hybrids per se in …     

基于表型性状的菠菜核心种质构建

以483份菠菜种质为材料,基于20个表型性状数据,根据2种遗传距离、3种取样方法、8种系统聚类方法、3种取样比例构建了144份菠菜核心种质.应用均值差异百分率、方差差异百分率、极差符合率和变异系数变化率4个参数来检验各取样策略的优劣.通过比较核心种质和原始种质的变异系数、方差、多样性指数、符合率和主成分,对构建的核心种...     

基于荧光SSR标记的紫薇遗传多样性分析

【目的】以收集的239份紫薇属(Lagerstroemia)种质和1份黄薇属(Heimia)种质为材料,开展种质种间特征分析和紫薇种内资源的遗传多样性分析,为进一步优化紫薇种质资源收集保存及合理利用提供科学依据。【方法】基于16对荧光引物鉴定样品基因型,利用GeneMarker软件进行基因型数据的读取;对239份紫薇属种质和1份黄薇属种质进行特征位点分析;并利用Popgene、Cervus、NTSYS和GenAlEx软件对227份紫薇种质进行遗传多样性参数估算、聚类分析和主成分分析。【结果】紫薇(L.indica)种内的特征位点信息最为丰富,其中15个引物所体现出的特征位点信息中,紫薇都有其独特的位点区别于其他6个种,而在福建紫薇(L.limii)、川黔紫薇(L.excelsa)和尾叶紫薇(L.caudata)中也有部分特异的特征位点是紫薇中没有的;16对紫薇SSR荧光引物共检测出143个等位基因,平均每个位点有8.938个等位基因,平均有效等位基因数(N_e)为3.600,Shannon’s信息指数(I)均值为1.459,观测杂合度(H_o)均...     

Statistical approaches in QTL mapping and molecular breeding for complex traits

Most of the important agronomic traits in crops,such as yield and quality,are complex traits affected by multiple genes with gene × gene interaction as well as gene × environment interaction.Understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits is a long-term task for quantitative geneticists and plant breeders who wish to design efficient breeding programs.Conventionally,the genetic properties of traits can be revealed by partitioning the total variation into variation components caused by specific genetic effects.With recent advances in molecular genotyping and high-throughput technology,the unraveling of the genetic architecture of complex traits by analyzing quantitative trait locus (QTL) has become possible.The improvement of complex traits has also been achieved by pyramiding individual QTL.In this review,we describe some statistical methods for QTL mapping that can be used to analyze QTL × QTL interaction and QTL × environment interaction,and discuss their applications in crop breeding for complex traits.     

基于互联网的工业现场温度数据动态采集系统开发

目前,互联网技术的成熟促进了工业现场控制领域的深刻变革．针对多数工业现场冷热交加、工作条件苛刻的实际情况,提出了基于互联网的现场温度数据采集系统的解决方案．在给出数据采集系统通信原理的基础上,通过面向组件的Java编程语言(JSP／Servlets)和Visual C 6．0编程技术,实现了数据采集系统的信息通信．根据用户需求,实现了基于国际互联网的数据采集系统信息显示的动态刷新、浏览、查询和数据分析、备份以及数据采集控制等功能．该系统在大连理工大学计算机控制研究所S319．dlut．edu．cn服务器上试验,通过并联15个DUT3000模块对现场温度数据的21万条采集试验,验证了该系统的实效性和便捷性．     

Genetic diversity and construction of core collection in Chinese wheat genetic resources

Genetic diversity among 5029 accessions representing a proposed Chinese wheat core collection was analyzed using 78 pairs of fluorescent microsatellite （SSR） primers mapped to 21 chromosomes. A stepwise hierarchical sampling strategy with priority based on 4×10^5 SSR data-points was used to construct a core collection from the 23090 initial collections. The core collection consisted of 1160 accessions, including 762 landraces, 348 modern varieties and 50 introduced varieties. The core accounts for 23.1% of the 5029 candidate core accessions and 5% of the 23090 initial collections, but retains 94.9% of alleles from the candidate collections and captures 91.5% of the genetic variation in the initial collections. These data indicate that it is possible to maintain genetic diversity in a core collection while retaining fewer accessions than the accepted standard, i.e., 10% of the initial collections captured more than 70% of their genetic diversity. Estimated genetic representation of the core constructed by preferred sampling （91.5%） is much higher than that by random sampling （79.8%）. Both mean genetic richness and genetic diversity indices of the landraces were higher than those of the modern varieties in the core. Structure and principal coordinate analysis revealed that the landraces and the modern varieties were two relatively independent subpopulaUons. Strong genetic differentiation associated with ecological environments has occurred in the landraces, but was relatively weak in the modern culUvars. In addition, a mini-core collection was constructed, which consisted of 231 accessions with an estimated 70% representation of the genetic variation from the initial collections. The mini-core has been distributed to various research and breeding institutes for detailed phenotyping and breeding of genetic introgression lines.     

基于Internet的高等化学网络试题库的设计与实现

本文介绍基于Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ的高等化学网络试题库的设计和实现。并在贵州大学化学的ＩｎｔｅｒｎｅｔＷｅｂ服务器上建立了ＡＣＥＱＬＮ的ＷＷＷ服务。     

"蝗虫研究"网站中图文资料的处理方法

采用典型性、专业型、大众化、前瞻性和时效性的选材原则和全面、综合、分析归纳的选材方法 ,对适合专业网站——“蝗虫研究”(http:/ / life.sxu.edu.cn)建设需要的图文资料进行了处理 ,达到了网站的要求     

复合性状的QTL定位模型构建

【目的】传统复合性状的QTL(quantitative trait locus)定位方法仅仅利用两个或几个构成性状的计算值作为表型值,未考虑复合性状的生物学内涵,从而影响定位的准确性。因此,发展适合于复合性状的QTL定位模型,对于深入解析控制复合性状的遗传结构,进而提高基因定位准确性显得越来越重要。【方法】针对全基因组重测序数据,构建了一个复合性状QTL定位模型(composite traits mapping model, CTM),利用CTM对复合性状进行分解,把分解后的组分以二元或多元正态分布形式整合到QTL作图的框架内。【结果】应用CTM分析杨树材积生长数据,可成功定位到大量与杨树材积生长相关的基因,并与传统方法进行了比较,定位出较多的显著位点,表现出较好的性能。计算机模拟试验表明,所构建的CTM模型在定位复合性状QTL中具有较高的效力,在达到一定的样本数量和遗传力条件下,CTM模型具有较强的效力,样本量和遗传力的增加都能够增加参数估计的精度。【结论】CTM模型有助于复合性状遗传结构的解析,促进林木分子标记辅助育种的开展。     

Genome-wide mapping of QTL associated with heterosis in the RIL-based NCIII design

Heterosis represents one of the most revolutionary advancements in crop improvement.In the genetic dissection of heterosis,NCIII design is one of the most powerful and widely used mating schemes.However,the methodologies for quantitative trait loci (QTL) detection in the design were mostly based on composite interval mapping.Therefore,in this study,our purpose was to develop a statistical method for mapping epistatic QTL associated with heterosis in the RIL-based NCIII design.First,we derivated the expectations of two classical linear transformations,Z 1 and Z 2,while a quantitative trait was controlled by two QTL with digenic epistasis and arbitrary linkage under the F ∞ and F 2 metric models.Then,we constructed an epistatic genetic model that includes all markers on the whole genome simultaneously,and estimated all the parameters in the model by the empirical Bayes approach.Finally,a series of Monte Carlo simulation experiments was carried out to confirm the proposed approach.The results show that:(1) all the augmented genetic parameters for main-effect QTL could be rightly identified with satisfactory statistical power and precision;(2) the statistical powers in the detection of augmented epistatic effects were substantively affected by the signs of pure epistatic effects;(3) it is more difficult to detect epistatic QTL than to detect main-effect QTL;(4) statistical power is higher in the RIL-based NCIII design than in the F 2-based NCIII design,especially in the detection of the augmented epistatic effect that consists of two pure epistatic effects in opposite directions.     

Molecular dissection of plant height QTLs using recombinant inbred lines from hybrids between common wheat （Triticum aestivum L.） and spelt wheat （Triticum spelta L.）

In wheat, plant height is an important agronomic trait, and a number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling plant height have been located. In this study, using the conditional and unconditional QTL mapping methods, combined with data from five different growth stages over two years of field trials, the developmental behavior for plant height in wheat was dissected. Nine unconditional QTLs and 8 conditional QTLs were identified, of which 6 were detected by both methods. None of the 11 QTLs was detected at all of the 5 investigated developmental stages, but 7 QTLs were detected at certain stages in both years. Further analysis identified 9 unconditional QTLs at different stages, which could explain the phenotypic variation from 4.81% to 17.35%. It was noteworthy that one major QTL designated QHt-4B-2, which was located on chromosome 4B, was detected on May 18 and 25 in both years, and its genetic contributions to plant height ranged from 13.42% to 16.13%. Moreover, of the 8 conditional QTLs identified, six were detected in both years, in the order of QHt-3B→QHt-4B-1→QHt-4B-2→QHt-4D→QHt-5A and QHt-2B expressed at the same developmental stage. The results indicate that QTL expression during plant height development is selective and in a temporal order.     

林木多元性状数据QTL区间作图统计分析及其在杨树上的应用

【目的】传统的数量性状基因座(QTL)定位统计分析方法是针对自交系产生实验群体而建立的,不能直接应用到林木这种杂合度较高生长周期较长的异交物种中。针对林木多元性状数据,将传统的QTL区间作图方法应用到林木杂交F₁代作图群体中。【方法】考虑分子标记各种可能的分离比以及连锁相信息,建立林木多元性状数据QTL定位统计分析模型,并用R语言编写了相应的计算软件包mvqtlmap。在美洲黑杨和小叶杨杂交F₁代群体中,对2014年5月29日至9月24日期间调查的6个时间点树高数据进行了QTL定位分析。【结果】有4个QTL定位在母本美洲黑杨的遗传连锁图谱上,有6个QTL分布在父本小叶杨的遗传连锁图谱上,这些QTL分别位于第1、5、7、9、11和19号染色体上,平均解释0.8%～6.7%的表型方差。【结论】研究结果可为在林木上利用多个性状或多个时间点性状数据进行QTL定位提供统计分析方法及计算工具。所建立的程序包可在网站http://www.bioseqdata.com/mvqtlmap/mvqtlmap.htm上自由下载。     

水稻遗传多样性及其农艺性状与SSR标记的关联分析

分析水稻材料的遗传多样性,寻找与农艺性状相关联的分子标记,为水稻杂交组合的配置及分子标记辅助育种提供依据.利用60对分布于水稻12条染色体组的SSR标记对190份水稻材料进行遗传多样性分析与群体遗传结构分析,并采用Tassel3.0的GLM和MLM进行标记与农艺性状的关联分析.结果显示,190份水稻材料的遗传相似系数(GS)变异范围为0.62～0.97,平均值为0.86.按群体遗传结构可将供试材料分为3个亚群.以GLM分析,发现8个与穗长、一次枝梗数、一次枝梗穗粒数、二次枝梗数、二次枝梗穗粒数、总穗粒数和饱满穗粒数相关联的标记,各标记对表型变异的解释率为0.0648;以MLM分析显示,8个标记对表型变异的解释率在0.0378～0.0648.本研究获得的这8个农艺性状相关的分子标记可以作为辅助育种培育高产水稻品种的分子标记.     

Assessment of different genetic distances in constructing cotton core subset by genotypic values

One hundred and sixty-eight genotypes of cotton from the same growing region were used as a germplasm group to study the validity of different genetic distances in constructing cotton core subset. Mixed linear model approach was employed to unbiasedly predict genotypic values of 20 traits for eliminating the environmental effect. Six commonly used genetic distances （Euclidean, standardized Euclidean, Mahalanobis, city block, cosine and correlation distances） combining four commonly used hierarchical cluster methods （single distance, complete distance, unweighted pair-group average and Ward＇s methods） were used in the least distance stepwise sampling （LDSS） method for constructing different core subsets. The analyses of variance （ANOVA） of different evaluating parameters showed that the validities of cosine and correlation distances were inferior to those of Euclidean, standardized Euclidean, Mahalanobis and city block distances. Standardized Euclidean distance was slightly more effective than Euclidean, Mahalanobis and city block distances. The principal analysis validated standardized Euclidean distance in the course of constructing practical core subsets. The covariance matrix of accessions might be ill-conditioned when Mahalanobis distance was used to calculate genetic distance at low sampling percentages, which led to bias in small-sized core subset construction. The standardized Euclidean distance is recommended in core subset construction with LDSS method.     

Estimation of statistical power and false discovery rate of QTL mapping methods through computer simulation

Many QTL mapping methods have been developed in the past two decades.Statistically,the best method should have a high detection power but a low false discovery rate (FDR).Power and FDR cannot be derived theoretically for most QTL mapping methods,but they can be properly evaluated using computer simulations.In this paper,we used four genetic models (two for independent loci and two for linked loci) to illustrate power and FDR estimation for interval mapping (IM) and inclusive composite interval mapping (ICIM).For each model,we simulated 1000 populations each of 200 doubled haploids.A support interval (SI) was first defined to indicate to which predefined QTL the significant QTL belonged.Power was calculated by counting the number of simulation runs with significant peaks higher than the logarithm of odds (LOD) threshold in the SI.Quantitative trait loci not identified in any SIs were viewed as false positives.The FDR is the rate at which QTLs are identified as significant when they are actually non-significant.Simulation results allowed us to estimate power and FDR of IM and ICIM for two independent and two linkage genetic models.Our estimates allowed us to readily compare the efficiencies of different statistical methods for QTL mapping,including the ability to separate linkage,under a wide range of genetic models.We used IM and ICIM as examples of how to estimate power and FDR,but the principles shown in this paper can be used for power analysis and comparison of any other QTL mapping methods,especially those based on interval tests.