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Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues

Since the dawn of agriculture, crop yield has always been impaired through abiotic stresses. In a field trial across five locations worldwide, we tested three abiotic stresses, nitrogen deficiency, drought and salinity, using HEB-YIELD, a selected subset of the wild barley nested association mapping...

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Autores principales: Wiegmann, Mathias, Maurer, Andreas, Pham, Anh, March, Timothy J., Al-Abdallat, Ayed, Thomas, William T. B., Bull, Hazel J., Shahid, Mohammed, Eglinton, Jason, Baum, Michael, Flavell, Andrew J., Tester, Mark, Pillen, Klaus
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42673-1
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author Wiegmann, Mathias
Maurer, Andreas
Pham, Anh
March, Timothy J.
Al-Abdallat, Ayed
Thomas, William T. B.
Bull, Hazel J.
Shahid, Mohammed
Eglinton, Jason
Baum, Michael
Flavell, Andrew J.
Tester, Mark
Pillen, Klaus
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Maurer, Andreas
Pham, Anh
March, Timothy J.
Al-Abdallat, Ayed
Thomas, William T. B.
Bull, Hazel J.
Shahid, Mohammed
Eglinton, Jason
Baum, Michael
Flavell, Andrew J.
Tester, Mark
Pillen, Klaus
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description Since the dawn of agriculture, crop yield has always been impaired through abiotic stresses. In a field trial across five locations worldwide, we tested three abiotic stresses, nitrogen deficiency, drought and salinity, using HEB-YIELD, a selected subset of the wild barley nested association mapping population HEB-25. We show that barley flowering time genes Ppd-H1, Sdw1, Vrn-H1 and Vrn-H3 exert pleiotropic effects on plant development and grain yield. Under field conditions, these effects are strongly influenced by environmental cues like day length and temperature. For example, in Al-Karak, Jordan, the day length-sensitive wild barley allele of Ppd-H1 was associated with an increase of grain yield by up to 30% compared to the insensitive elite barley allele. The observed yield increase is accompanied by pleiotropic effects of Ppd-H1 resulting in shorter life cycle, extended grain filling period and increased grain size. Our study indicates that the adequate timing of plant development is crucial to maximize yield formation under harsh environmental conditions. We provide evidence that wild barley alleles, introgressed into elite barley cultivars, can be utilized to support grain yield formation. The presented knowledge may be transferred to related crop species like wheat and rice securing the rising global food demand for cereals.
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spelling pubmed-64840772019-05-13 Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues Wiegmann, Mathias Maurer, Andreas Pham, Anh March, Timothy J. Al-Abdallat, Ayed Thomas, William T. B. Bull, Hazel J. Shahid, Mohammed Eglinton, Jason Baum, Michael Flavell, Andrew J. Tester, Mark Pillen, Klaus Sci Rep Article Since the dawn of agriculture, crop yield has always been impaired through abiotic stresses. In a field trial across five locations worldwide, we tested three abiotic stresses, nitrogen deficiency, drought and salinity, using HEB-YIELD, a selected subset of the wild barley nested association mapping population HEB-25. We show that barley flowering time genes Ppd-H1, Sdw1, Vrn-H1 and Vrn-H3 exert pleiotropic effects on plant development and grain yield. Under field conditions, these effects are strongly influenced by environmental cues like day length and temperature. For example, in Al-Karak, Jordan, the day length-sensitive wild barley allele of Ppd-H1 was associated with an increase of grain yield by up to 30% compared to the insensitive elite barley allele. The observed yield increase is accompanied by pleiotropic effects of Ppd-H1 resulting in shorter life cycle, extended grain filling period and increased grain size. Our study indicates that the adequate timing of plant development is crucial to maximize yield formation under harsh environmental conditions. We provide evidence that wild barley alleles, introgressed into elite barley cultivars, can be utilized to support grain yield formation. The presented knowledge may be transferred to related crop species like wheat and rice securing the rising global food demand for cereals. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6484077/ /pubmed/31024028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42673-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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March, Timothy J.
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Bull, Hazel J.
Shahid, Mohammed
Eglinton, Jason
Baum, Michael
Flavell, Andrew J.
Tester, Mark
Pillen, Klaus
Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title_full Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title_fullStr Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title_full_unstemmed Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title_short Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
title_sort barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42673-1
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