eprintid: 6797 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 128 dir: disk0/00/00/67/97 datestamp: 2013-05-13 06:23:25 lastmod: 2016-10-19 04:56:46 status_changed: 2013-05-13 06:23:25 type: article metadata_visibility: show contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG creators_name: Upadhyaya, H D creators_name: Wang, Y H creators_name: Gowda, C L L creators_name: Sharma, S icrisatcreators_name: Upadhyaya, H D icrisatcreators_name: Gowda, C L L icrisatcreators_name: Sharma, S affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru) affiliation: University of Louisiana(Lafayette) country: India country: USA title: Association mapping of maturity and plant height using SNP markers with the sorghum mini core collection ispublished: pub subjects: s1.4 subjects: s2.13 divisions: D3 crps: crp1.4 full_text_status: restricted keywords: SNP markers, Sorghum, Mini core collection, Plant materials note: We thank Patricia E. Klein, Robert R. Klein, and A. Millie Burrell for reviewing and the two reviewers for their suggestions to improve the manuscript. The study was supported in part by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. abstract: Plant height and maturity are two critical traits in sorghum breeding. To develop molecular tools and to identify genes underlying the traits for molecular breeding, we developed 14,739 SNP markers used to genotype the complete sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] mini core collection. The collection was evaluated in four rainy and three post-rainy season environments for plant height and maturity. Association analysis identified six marker loci linked to height and ten to maturity in at least two environments with at least two SNPs in each locus. Of these, 14 were in close proximity to previously mapped height/maturity QTL in sorghum. Candidate genes for maturity or plant height close to the marker loci include a sugar transporter (SbSUC9), an auxin response factor (SbARF3), an FLC and FT regulator (SbMED12), and a photoperiod response gene (SbPPR1) for maturity and peroxidase 53, and an auxin transporter (SbLAX4) for plant height. Linkage disequilibrium analysis showed that SbPPR1 and SbARF3 were in regions with reduced sequence variation among early-maturing accessions, suggestive of past purifying selection. We also found a linkage disequilibrium block that existed only among the accessions with short plant height in rainy season environments. The block contains a gene homologous to the Arabidopsis flowering time gene, LUMINIDEPENDENS (LD). Functional LD promotes early maturity while mutation delays maturity, affecting plant height. Previous studies also found reduced sequence variations within this gene. These newly-mapped SNP markers will facilitate further efforts to identify plant height or maturity genes in sorghum date: 2013 date_type: published publication: TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics volume: 126 number: 8 publisher: Springer Verlag pagerange: 2003-2015 id_number: 10.1007/s00122-013-2113-x refereed: TRUE issn: 1432-2242 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-013-2113-x related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=%22Association+mapping+of+maturity+and+plant+height+using+SNP+markers+with+the+sorghum+mini+core+collection%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2 related_url_type: pub citation: Upadhyaya, H D and Wang, Y H and Gowda, C L L and Sharma, S (2013) Association mapping of maturity and plant height using SNP markers with the sorghum mini core collection. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 126 (8). pp. 2003-2015. ISSN 1432-2242 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/6797/1/TAG_126_8_2003-2015%20_2013.pdf