Determining the Efficacy of a Hybridizing Agent in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
| Autor: | Thierry Moittié, Jean-Benoit Sarazin, P. Stephen Baenziger, Vikas Belamkar, Edward Souza, Nicholas Garst, Jackie C. Rudd, Amir M. H. Ibrahim, Walter W. Stroup, Amanda C. Easterly |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Plant genetics Genotype Sterility Science education Biology medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Article 03 medical and health sciences Global population Pollen parasitic diseases medicine Hybrid Vigor Triticum Multidisciplinary Models Statistical Models Genetic business.industry food and beverages Replicate Biotechnology Plant Breeding 030104 developmental biology Seeds Medicine Hybridization Genetic business Algorithms 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Hybrid wheat (Triticum spp.) has the potential to boost yields and enhance production under changing climates to feed the growing global population. Production of hybrid wheat seed relies on male sterility, the blocking of pollen production, to prevent self-pollination. One method of preventing self-pollination in the female plants is to apply a chemical hybridizing agent (CHA). However, some combinations of CHA and genotypes have lower levels of sterility, resulting in decreased hybrid purity. Differences in CHA efficacy are a challenge in producing hybrid wheat lines for commercial and experimental use. Our primary research questions were to estimate the levels of sterility for wheat genotypes treated with a CHA and determine the best way to analyze differences. We applied the CHA sintofen (1-(4-chlorphyl)-1,4-dihydro-5-(2-methoxyethoxy)-4-oxocinnoline-3-carboxylic acid; Croisor 100) to 27 genotypes in replicate. After spraying, we counted seed in bagged female heads to evaluate CHA efficacy and CHA-by-genotype interaction. Using logit and probit models with a threshold of 7 seeds, we found differences among genotypes in 2015. Sterility was higher in 2016 and fewer genotypic differences were found. When CHA-induced sterilization is less uniform as in 2015, zero-inflated and hurdle count models were superior to standard mixed models. These models calculate mean seed number and fit data with limit-bounded scales collected by agronomists and plant breeders to compare genotypic differences. These analyses can assist in selecting parents and identifying where additional optimization of CHA application needs to occur. There is little work in the literature examining the relationship between CHAs and genotypes, making this work fundamental to the future of hybrid wheat breeding. |
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