Genome-wide DArT and SNP scan for QTL associated with resistance to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in elite ICARDA wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1277-1295

  Jighly, Abdulqader ^a,b,c   Oyiga, Benedict C ^d,e   Makdis, Farid ^a,f   Nazari, Kumarse ^a   Youssef, Omran ^g   Tadesse, Wuletaw ^a   Abdalla, Osman ^a   Ogbonnaya, Francis C ^a,h  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALEPPO   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^g General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR) Agricultural Research Centre of Al Qamishly   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^h Australian Government Grains Research and Development Corporation   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; GENES;

ADULT PLANT RESISTANCES; EPISTATIC INTERACTIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; PUCCINIA STRIIFORMIS F. SP. TRITICI; RECOMBINANT INBRED LINES; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PUCCINIA STRIIFORMIS F. SP. TRITICI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

GENETIC MARKER;

BASIDIOMYCETES; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHEAT;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRITICUM;

EID: 84930869182     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2504-2     Document Type: Article

References (108)

1. Andreescu C, Avendano S, Brown SR, Hassen A, Lamont SJ, Dekkers JCM (2007) Linkage disequilibrium in related breeding lines of chickens. Genetics 177:2161–2169
2. Bansal UK, Hayden MJ, Keller B, Wellings CR, Park RF, Bariana HS (2009) Relationship between wheat rust resistance genes Yr1 and Sr48 and a microsatellite marker. Plant Pathol 58:1039–1043
3. Bariana HS, Willey NJ, Venkata BP, Lehmensiek A, Standen GE, Lu M (2004) Breeding methodology to achieve durability for rust resistance in wheat. In: Black CK, Panozzo JF, Rebetzke GJ (eds) Proceedings of the 54th Australian cereal chemistry conference and 11th wheat breeders assembly, Canberra, pp 8–12
4. Bariana HS, Bansal UK, Schmidt A, Lehmensiek A, Kaur J, Miah H, Howes N, McIntyre CL (2010) Molecular mapping of adult plant stripe rust resistance in wheat and identification of pyramided QTL genotypes. Euphytica 176:251–260
5. Börner A, Röder MS, Unger O, Meinel A (2000) The detection and molecular mapping of a major resistance gene for non-specific adult-plant disease resistance against stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) in wheat. Theor Apppl Genet 100:1095–1099
6. Börner A, Schumann E, Fürste A, Cöster H, Leithold B, Röder M, Weber W (2002) Mapping of quantitative trait loci determining agronomic important characters in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor Appl Genet 105(6–7):921–936
7. Boshoff WHP, Pretorius ZA, Niekerk BDV (2002) Establishment, distribution, and pathologenicity of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in South Africa. Plant Dis 86:485–492
8. Boukhatem N, Baret PV, Mingeot D, Jacquemin JM (2002) Quantitative trait loci for resistance against yellow rust in two wheat derive recombinant inbred line populations. Theor Appl Genet 104:111–118
9. Brachi B, Morris GP, Borevitz JO (2011) Genome-wide association studies in plants: the missing heritability is in the field. Genome Biol 12:232
10. Bradbury JC, Zhang Z, Kroon DE, Casstevens TM, Ramdoss Y, Buckler ES (2007) TASSEL: software for association mapping of complex traits in diverse samples. Bioinformatics 23:2633–2635
11. Breseghello F, Sorrells MS (2006) Association mapping of kernel size and milling quality in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars. Genetics 172:1165–1177
12. Cavanagh CR, Chao S, Wang S, Huang BE, Stephen S et al (2013) Genome-wide comparative diversity uncovers multiple targets of selection for improvement in hexaploid wheat landraces and cultivars. PNAS 110(20):8057–8062
13. Chao S, ZhangW Dubcovsky J, Sorrells M (2007) Evaluation of genetic diversity and genome-wide linkage disequilibrium among US wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm representing different market classes. Crop Sci 47:1018–1030
14. Chen XM (2007) Challenges and solutions for stripe rust control in the United States. Aust J Agric Res 58:648–655
15. Chen XM (2013) Review article: high-temperature adult-plant resistance, key for sustainable control of stripe rust. Am J Plant Sci 4:608–627
16. Cheng P, Xu LS, Wang MN, See DR, Chen XM (2014) Molecular mapping of genes Yr64 and Yr65 for stripe rust resistance in hexaploid derivatives of durum wheat accessions PI 331260 and PI 480016. Theor Appl Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-014-2378-8
17. Comstock RR, Robinson HF (1952) Genetic parameters, their estimation and significance. In: Proceedings of the 6th international Grassland congress, vol 1, pp 277–283
18. Crossa J, Burgueno J, Dreisigacker S, Vargas M, Herrera-Foessel SA, Lillemo M, Singh RP, Trethowan R, Warburton M, Franco J, Reynolds M, Crouch JH, Ortiz R (2007) Association analysis of historical bread wheat germplasm using additive genetic covariance of relatives and population structure. Genetics 177:1889–1913
19. Dedryver F, Paillard S, Mallard S, Robert O, Trottet M, Nègre S, Verplancke G, Jahier J (2009) Characterization of genetic components involved in durable resistance to stripe rust in the bread wheat ‘Renan’. Phytopathology 99:968–973
20. Detering F, Hunter E, Uszynski G, Wenzl P, Andrzej K (2010) A consensus genetic map of wheat: ordering 5,000 wheat DArT markers. In: 20th ITMI and 2nd WGC workshop, Beijing, 1–5 September 2010
21. Distelfeld A, Uauy C, Olmos S, Schlatter AR, Dubcovsky J, Fahima T (2004) Microcolinearity between a 2-cM region encompassing the grain protein content locus Gpc-6B1 on wheat chromosome 6B and a 350-kb region on rice chromosome 2. Funct Integr Genomics 4:59–66
22. Dreisigacker S, Arief V, DeLacy I, Davenport G, Manes Y, Reynolds M, Ravi S, Dieters M, Crossa J (2008) Patterns of linkage disequilibrium in multiple populations. In: Appels R, Eastwood R, Lagudah E, Langridge P, Mackay M, McIntyre L, Sharp P (eds) Proceedings of 11th international wheat genet symposium. Sydney University Press, Brisbane, pp 1–5
23. Emebiri LC, Ogbonnaya FC (2015) Exploring the synthetic hexaploid wheat for novel sources of tolerance to excess boron. Mol Breed 35:68 doi:10.1007/s11032-015-0273-x
24. Evanno G, Regnaut S, Goudet J (2005) Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software STRUCTURE: a simulation study. Mol Ecol 14:2611–2620
25. Flint-Garcia SA, Thornsberry JM, Buckler ES (2003) Structure of linkage disequilibrium in plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 54:357–374
26. Gill BS, Sharma HC, Raupp WJ, Browder LE, Hatchett JH, Harvey TL, Moseman GJ, Waines JG (1985) Evaluation of Aegilops species for resistance to wheat powdery mildew, wheat leaf rust, Hessian fly and green bug. Plant Dis 69:314–316
27. Hao Y, Cambron SE, Chen Z, Wang Y, Bland DE, Buntin GD, Johnson JW (2013) Characterization of new loci for Hessian fly resistance in common wheat. Theor Appl Genet 126(4):1067–1076
28. Hedrick PW (1987) Gametic disequilibrium measures: proceed with caution. Genetics 198(117):331–374
29. Johanson HW, Robinson F, Comstock RE (1955) Estimate of genetic and environmental variability in soybeans. Agron J 47:314–318
30. Johnson R (1992) Past, present and future opportunities in breeding for disease resistance, with examples from wheat. Euphytica 63:3–22
31. Johnson R, Stubbs RW, Fuchs E, Chamberlain NH (1972) Nomenclature for physiologic races of Puccinia striiformis infecting wheat. Trans Br Mycol Soc 58:475–480
32. Joukhadar R, El-Bouhssini M, Jighly A, Ogbonnaya FC (2013) Genome-wide association mapping for five major pest resistances in wheat. Mol Breed. doi:10.1007/s11032-013-9924-y
33. Kang HM, Zaitlen NA, Wade CM, Kirby A, Heckerman D et al (2008) Efficient control of population structure in model organism association mapping. Genetics 178:1709–1723
34. Kollers S, Rodemann B, Ling J, Korzun V, Ebmeyer E et al (2013) Genetic architecture of resistance to Septoria tritici blotch (Mycosphaerella graminicola) in European winter wheat. Mol Breed 32(2):411–423
35. Kolmer JA, Singh RP, Garvin DF, Viccars L, William HM, Huerta-Espino J, Ogbonnaya FC, Raman H, Orford S, Bariana HS, Lagudah ES (2008) Analysis of the Lr34/Yr18 rust resistance region in wheat germplasm. Crop Sci 48:1841–1852
36. Krattinger SG, Lagudah ES, Spielmeyer W, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, McFadden H, Bossolini E, Selter LL, Keller B (2009) A putative ABC transporter confers durable resistance to multiple fungal pathogens in wheat. Science 323:1360–1363
37. Krzywinski M et al (2009) Circos: an information aesthetic for comparative genomics. Genome Res 19:1639–1645
38. Lagudah ES, McFadden H, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, Bariana HS, Spielmeyer W (2006) Molecular genetic characterization of the Lr34/Yr18 slow rusting resistance gene region in wheat. Theor Appl Genet 114:21–30
39. Lagudah ES, Krattinger SG, Herrera-Foessel S, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, Spielmeyer W, Brown-Guedira G, Selter LL, Keller B (2009) Gene-specific markers for the wheat gene Lr34/Yr18/Pm38 which confers resistance to multiple fungal pathogens. Theor Appl Genet 119:889–898
40. Larsson H, Källman T, Gyllenstrand N, Lascoux M (2013) Distribution of long-range linkage disequilibrium and Tajima’s D values in Scandinavian populations of Norway spruce (Picea abies). G3 3(5):795–806
41. Letta T, Olivera P, Maccaferri M, Jin Y, Ammar K, Badebo A, Salvi S, Noli E, Crossa J, Tuberosa R (2014) Association mapping reveals novel stem rust resistance loci in Durum wheat at the seedling stage. Plant Genome. doi:10.3835/plantgenome2013.08.0026
42. Lillemo M, Asalf B, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, Chen XM, He ZH, Bjornstad A (2008) The adult plant rust resistance loci Lr34/Yr18 and Lr46/Yr29 are important determinants of partial resistance to powdery mildew in bread wheat line Saar. Theor Appl Genet 116:1155–1166
43. Lin F, Chen XM (2008) Molecular mapping of genes for race-specific overall resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar Express. Theor Appl Genet 116:797–806
44. Lin F, Chen XM (2009) Quantitative trait loci for non-race-specific, high-temperature adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar Express. Theor Appl Genet 118:631–642
45. Lowe I, Jankuloski L, Chao S et al (2011) Mapping and validation of QTL which confer partial resistance to broadly virulent post-2000 North American races of stripe rust in hexaploid wheat. Theor Appl Genet 123:143–157
46. Lu YM, Lan CX, Linag SS, Zhou XC, Liu D, Zhou G, Lu QL, Jing JX, Wang MN, Xia XC, He ZH (2009) QTL mapping for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in Italian common wheat cultivars Libellula and Strampelli. Theor Appl Genet 119:1349–1359
47. Lynch M, Ritland K (1999) Estimation of related with molecular markers. Genetics 152:1088–1753
48. Ma H, Singh RP (1996) Contribution of adult plant resistance gene Yr18 in protecting wheat from yellow rust. Plant Dis 80:66–69
49. Maccaferri M, Sanguineti MC, Demontis A, El-Ahmed A, del Moral LG, Maalouf F, Nachit M, Nserallah N, Ouabbou H, Rhouma S, Royo C, Villegas D, Tuberosa R (2011) Association mapping in durum wheat grown across a broad range of water regimes. J Exp Bot 62:409–438
50. Maccaferri M, Zhang J, Bulli P, Abate Z, Shiaoman C, Cantu D, Bossolini E, Chen X, Pumphrey M, Dubcovsky J (2015) A genome-wide association study of resistance to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in a worldwide collection of hexaploid spring wheat (Triticumaestivvum L.). Genes Genomes Genet (G3) 5:449–465
51. Mackay I, Powell W (2006) Methods for linkage disequilibrium mapping in crops. Trends Plant Sci 12:57–63
52. Marais GF, McCallum B, Marais AS (2006) Leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes derived from Aegilops sharonensis. Euphytica 149(3):373–380
53. Marais GF, Marais AS, McCallum B, Pretorius Z (2009) Transfer of leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes Lr62 and Yr42 from Aegilops neglecta Req. ex Bertol. to common wheat. Crop Sci 49:871–879
54. Massman J, Cooper B, Horsley R, Neate S, Dill-Macky Chao S, Dong Y, Schwarz P, Muehlbauer GJ, Smith KP (2011) Genome-wide association mapping of fusarium head blight resistance in contemporary barley breeding germplasm. Mol Breed 27:439–454
55. McIntosh RA, Wellings CR, Park RF (1995) Wheat rusts: an atlas of resistance genes. CSIRO Publications, Victoria
56. McIntosh RA, Yamazaki Y, Dubcovsky J, Rogers WJ, Morris CF, Appels R, Xia XC (2013) Catalogue of gene symbols for wheat. In: 12th international wheat genetic symposium, 8–13 September 2013, Yokohama
57. Miedaner T, Wurschum T, Maurer HP, Korzun V, Ebmeyer E, Reif JC (2011) Association mapping for Fusarium head blight resistance in European soft winter wheat. Mol Breed 28:647–655
58. Milus EA, Soyran E, McNew R (2006) Aggressive of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in eastern United States. Plant Dis 90:847–852
59. Mulki MA, Jighly A, Ye G, Emebiri LC, Moody D, Ansari O, Ogbonnaya FC (2013) Association mapping for soilborne pathogen resistance in synthetic hexaploid wheat. Mol Breed 3:299–311
60. Mumtaz S, Khan IA, Ali S, Zeb B, Iqbal A, Shah Z, Swati ZA (2009) Development of RAPD based markers for wheat rust resistance gene cluster (Lr37–Sr38–Yr17) derived from Triticum ventricosum L. Afr J Biotechnol 8(7):1188–1192
61. Neumann K, Kobiljski B, Denčić S, Varshney RK, Börner A (2011) Genome-wide association mapping: a case study in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Mol Breed 1:37–58
62. Ogbonnaya FC, Seah S, Delibes A, Jahier J, Lopez-Brana I, Eastwood RF, Lagudah ES (2001) Molecular-genetic characterisation of a new nematode resistance gene in wheat. Theor Appl Genet 102:623–629
63. Pardey PG, Beddow JM, Kriticos DJ, Hurley TM, Park RF, Duveiller E, Sutherst RW, Burdon JJ, Hodson D (2013) Right-sizing stem-rust research. Science 340(6129):147–148
64. Pathan AK, Park RF (2006) Evaluation of seedling and adult plant resistance to leaf rust in European wheat cultivars. Euphytica 149:327–342
65. Patterson N, Price A, Reich D (2006) Population structure and eigenanalysis. PLoS Genet 2:e190
66. Peng JH, Fahima T, Roeder MS, Huang QY, Dahan A, Li YC, Grama A, Nevo E (2000) High-density molecular map of chromosome region harboring stripe-rust resistance genes YrH52 and Yr15 derived from wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. Genetica 109(3):199–210
67. Price A, Patternson N, Plenge R, Weinblatt M, Shadick N et al (2006) Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies. Nat Genet 38:904–909
68. Price AL, Zaitlen NA, Reich D, Patterson N (2010) New approaches to population stratification in genome-wide association studies. Nat Rev Genet 11(7):459–463
69. Pritchard JK, Stephen M, Donnely P (2000) Inference on population structure using multi-locus genotype data. Genetics 155:945–959
70. Ramburan VP, Pretorius ZA, Louw JH, Boyd LA, Smith PH, Boshoff WHP, Prins R (2004) A genetic analysis of adult plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar Kariega. Theor Appl Genet 108:1426–1433
71. Rasheed A, Xia X, Ogbonnaya F, Mahmood T, Zhang Z, Mujeeb-Kazi A, He Z (2014) Genome-wide association for grain morphology in synthetic hexaploid wheats using digital imaging analysis. BMC Plant Biol 14:128
72. Ren Y, He ZH, Li J, Lillemo M, Wu L, Bai B, Lu QX, Zhu HZ, Zhou G, Du JY, Lu QL, Xia XC (2012) QTL mapping of adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in a population derived from common wheat cultivars Naxos and Shanghai 3/Catbird. Theor Appl Genet 125:1211–1221
73. Rincent R, Moreau L, Monod H, Kuhn E, Melchinger AE, Malvar RA, Moreno-Gonzalez J, Nicolas S, Madur D, Combes V, Dumas F, Altmann T, Brunel D, Ouzunova M, Flament P, Dubreuil P, Charcosset A, Mary-Huard T (2014) Recovering power in association mapping panels with variable levels of linkage disequilibrium. Genetics 197:375–387
74. Rosewarne GM, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, Herrera-Foessel SA, Forrest KL, Hayden MJ, Rebetzke GJ (2012) Analysis of leaf and stripe rust severities reveals pathotype changes and multiple minor QTL associated with resistance in an Avocet × Pastor wheat population. Theor Appl Genet 124:1283–1294
75. Rosewarne GM, HerreraFoessel SA, Singh RP, HuertaEspino J, Lan CX, He ZH (2013) Quantitative trait loci of stripe rust resistance in wheat. Theor Appl Genet 126(10):2427–2449
76. Rostoks N, Ramsay L, MacKenzie K, Cardle L, Bhat PR, Roose ML (2006) Recent history of artificial outcrossing facilitates whole-genome association mapping in elite inbred crop varieties. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:18656–18661. doi:10.1073/pnas.0606133103
77. Roy JK, Smith KP, Muelbauer GJ, Chao S, Close TJ, Steffenson BJ (2010) Association mapping of spot blotch resistance in wild barley. Mol Breed 26:243–256
78. Saari EE, Prescott JM (1985) World distribution in relation to economic losses. In: Roelfs AP, Bushnell WR (eds) The cereal rusts. vol II. Diseases, distribution, epidemiology and control, pp.259–298. Academic Press, Orlanda
79. Schnurbusch T, Paillard S, Schori A, Messmer M, Schachermayr G, Winzeler M, Keller B (2004a) Dissection of quantitative and durable leaf rust resistance in Swiss winter wheat reveals a major resistance QTL in the Lr34 chromosomal region. Theor Appl Genet 108:477–484
80. Schnurbusch T, Bossolini E, Messmer M, Keller B (2004b) Tagging and validation of a major quantitative trait locus for leaf rust resistance and leaf tip necrosis in winter wheat cultivar Forno. Phytopathology 94:1036–1041
81. Sela H, Ezrati S, Ben-Yehuda P, Manisterski J, Akhunov E, Dvorak J, Breiman A, Korol A (2014) Linkage disequilibrium and association analysis of stripe rust resistance in wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) population in Israel. Theor Appl Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-014-2389-5
82. Singh RP, Nelson JC, Sorrells ME (2000) Mapping Yr28 and other genes for resistance to stripe rust in wheat. Crop Sci 40:1148–1155
83. Singh D, Park RF, McIntosh RA, Bariana HS (2008) Characterisation of stem rust and stripe rust seedling resistance genes in selected wheat cultivars from the United Kingdom. J Plant Pathol 90(3):553–562
84. Solh M, Nazari K, Tadesse W, Wellings CR (2012) The growing threat of stripe rust worldwide Borlaug global rust initiative (BGRI) conference, Beijing
85. Spielmeyer W, McIntosh RA, Kolmer J, Lagudah ES (2005) Powdery mildew resistance and Lr34/Yr18 genes for durable resistance to leaf and stripe rust cosegregate at a locus on the short arm of chromosome 7D of wheat. Theor Appl Genet 111:731–735
86. Stam P (1993) Construction of integrated genetic linkage maps by means of a new computer package: JoinMap. Plant J 3:739–744
87. Stich B, Melchinger AE (2009) Comparison of mixed-model approaches for association mapping in rapeseed, potato, sugar beet, maize, and Arabidopsis. BMC Genomics 10:9
88. Storey JD, Tibshirani R (2003) Statistical significance for genome wide studies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:9440–9445
89. Suenaga K, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, William HM (2003) Microsatellite markers for genes Lr34/Yr18 and other quantitative trait loci for leaf rust and stripe rust resistance in bread wheat. Phytopathology 93:881–890
90. Tadesse W, Ogbonnaya FC, Jighly A, Nazari K, Rajaram S, Baum M (2014) Association mapping of quantitative resistance to stripe rust (Pucinia tritici) in winter wheat cultivars and elite genotypes targeted to the CWANA region. Crop Sci 54(2):607–616
91. Thornsberry JM, Goodman MM, Doebley J, Kresovich S, Nielsen D, Buckler ES (2001) Dwarf8 polymorphisms associate with variation in flowering time. Nat Genet 28:286–289
92. Tondelli A, Xu X, Moragues M, Sharma R, Schnaithmann F, Ingvardsen C, Manninen O, Comadran J, Russell J, Waugh R, Schulman AH, Pillen K, Rasmussen SK, Kilian B, Cattivelli L, Thomas WTB, Flavell AJ (2013) Structural and temporal variation in genetic diversity of European spring two-row barley cultivars and association mapping of quantitative traits. Plant Genome 6:1–14. doi:10.3835/plantgenome2013.03.0007
93. Van Ooijen JW (2006) JoinMap 4, software for the calculation of genetic linkage maps in experimental populations. In: Kyazma BV (ed), Wageningen
94. Van Ooijen JW (2009) MapQTL 6, software for the mapping of quantitative trait loci in experimental populations of diploid species. In: Kyazma BV (ed), Wageningen
95. Vazquez MD, Peterson CJ, Riera-Lizarazu O, Chen X, Heesacker A, Ammar K, Crossa J, Mundt CC (2012) Genetic analysis of adult plant, quantitative resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar ‘Stephens’ in multi-environment trials. Theor Appl Genet 124:1–11
96. Vinod KK (2011) Association mapping in crop plants. In: Advanced faculty training on “impact of genomics in crop improvement: perceived and achieved”, 20 January 2011–9 February 2011. Centre for Advanced Faculty Training in Genetics and Plant Breeding, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
97. Wang H, Smith KP, Combs E, Blake T, Horsley RD, Muehlbaue GJ (2012) Effect of population size and unbalanced data sets on QTL detection using genome-wide association mapping in barley breeding germplasm. Theor Appl Genet 124(1):111–124
98. Weir BS (1996) Genetic data analysis II: methods for discrete populations genetic data. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland
99. Wellings CR, Wright DG, Keiper F, Loughman R (2003) First detection of wheat stripe rust in Western Australia: evidence for a foreign incursion. Australas Plant Pathol 32:321–322
100. William HM, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, Palacios G, Suenaga K (2006) Characterization of genetic loci conferring adult plant resistance to leaf rust and stripe rust in spring wheat. Genome 49:977–990
101. Yang WY, Yu Y, Zhang Y, Hu XR, Wang Y, Zhou YC, Lu BR (2003) Inheritance and expression of stripe rust resistance in common wheat (Triticum aestivum) transferred from Aegilops tauschii and its utilization. Hereditas 139:49–55
102. Yang EN, Rosewarne GM, Herrera-Foessel SA, Huerta-Espino J, Tang ZX, Sun CF, Ren ZL, Singh RP (2013) QTL analysis of the spring wheat “Chapio” identifies stable stripe rust resistance despite inter-continental genotype × environment interactions. Theor Appl Genet 126(7):1721–1732
103. Yu J, Pressoir G, Briggs WH, Vroh I, Yamasaki M, Doebley JF, McMullen MD, Gaut BS, Nielsen DM, Holland JB, Kresovich S, Buckler ES (2006) A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness. Nat Genet 38:203–208
104. Yu LX, Lorenz A, Rutkoski J, Singh RP, Bhavani S, Huerta-Espino J, Sorrells ME (2011) Association mapping and gene–gene interaction for stem rust resistance in CIMMYT spring whear germplasm. Theor Appl Genet 123:1257–1268
105. Yu LX, Morgounov A, Wanyera R, Keser M, Singh SK, Sorrells ME (2012) Identification of Ug99 stem rust resistance loci in winter wheat germplasm using genome-wide association analysis. Theor Appl Genet 125(4):749–758
106. Zegeye H, Rasheed A, Makdis F, Badebo A, Ogbonnaya FC (2014) Genome-wide association mapping for seedling and adult plant resistance to stripe rust in synthetic hexaploid wheat. PLoS One 9(8):e105593
107. Zhao K, Aranzana MJ, Kim S, Lister C, Shindo C et al (2007) An Arabidopsis example of association mapping in structured samples. PLoS Genet 3:e4
108. Zhou XL, Han DJ, Chen XM, Gou HL, Guo SJ, Rong L, Wang QL, Huang LL, Kang ZS (2014) Characterization and molecular mapping of stripe rust resistance gene Yr61 in winter wheat cultivar Pindong 34. Theor Appl Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-014-2381-0