Capturing Genetic Variability and Identification of Promising Drought-Tolerant Lines in Exotic Landrace Derived Population Under Reproductive Drought Stress in Rice

    Venkateshwarlu, Ch and Kole, P C and Paul, P J and Singh, A K and Singh, V K and Kumar, A (2022) Capturing Genetic Variability and Identification of Promising Drought-Tolerant Lines in Exotic Landrace Derived Population Under Reproductive Drought Stress in Rice. Frontiers in Plant Science (TSI), 13. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1664-462X

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    Abstract

    Drought is one of the most predominant abiotic stresses in this century, leading to a drastic reduction in the yield of rainfed rice ecosystems. Breeding of drought-resilient rice varieties is very much in demand for sustainable rice production in drought-prone rainfed ecology. An experiment was designed under irrigated non-stress and drought-stress situations involving an exotic drought-tolerant landrace (Chao Khaw) and a high-yielding aromatic rice cultivar (Kasturi), and an F2:4 derived population of 156 breeding lines was developed at IRRI South Asia Hub, Hyderabad. The objective of the study was to assess the genetic variability, drought tolerance behavior, and identify promising breeding lines for different rice ecologies and drought breeding programs. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) analysis using the mixed model approach revealed a considerable genetic variation in the population for yield and yield contributing traits in non-stress and drought-stress conditions. We observed very high heritability for all the selected traits under stress 2015 WS (73.8% to 85.3%) and 2016 WS (72.4% to 93.5%) and non-stress 2015 WS (68.2% To 92.9%) and 2016 WS (61.4% to 92.6%) environments, indicating possible selection for grain yield under drought stress and non-stress with the same precision level. None of the secondary traits except harvest index and biomass included in our study showed a positive association with grain yield, indicating indirect selection’s ineffectiveness in improving yield under drought. A total of 48 promising breeding lines were found to have a better yield than donor Chao Khaw (up to 38% advantage) and popular drought-tolerant cultivars Shabhagidhan (up to 48% advantage) in stress conditions and recommended for rainfed upland ecology, 34 breeding lines under the well-watered condition suited for rainfed lowland ecology. Overall, the study found 21 common breeding lines that showed their superiority in non-stress and under drought stress situations, fitting best in rainfed lowland ecology with occasional drought occurrence. The large genetic variation found in this population can be exploited further to develop a few forward breeding high-yielding lines with better drought tolerance ability and used as drought donors in drought breeding programs.

    Item Type: Article
    Divisions: Others
    CRP: UNSPECIFIED
    Uncontrolled Keywords: drought-tolerant, abiotic stress, Chao Khaw, Kasturi, rainfed ecology, genetic variability
    Subjects: Others > Abiotic Stress
    Others > Drought Tolerance
    Others > Rice
    Depositing User: Mr Nagaraju T
    Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2024 06:40
    Last Modified: 03 Apr 2024 06:40
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12608
    Official URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science...
    Projects: Development of superior haplotype-based near-isogenic lines (Haplo-NILs) for enhanced genetic gain in rice
    Funders: Government of India - Department of Biotechnology
    Acknowledgement: We would like to acknowledge K. Anil and Satya Babu for their help in the experimental field establishment. We express sincere thanks to the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, for financial support under the project “Development of superior haplotype-based near-isogenic lines (Haplo-NILs) for enhanced genetic gain in rice” (grant BT/PR32853/AGill/103/1159/2019). This work has been undertaken under the ICAR-IRRI collaborative research project. IRRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium.
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