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Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding
In the North Eastern Himalayan region (NEHR) of India, maize is an important food crop. The local people cultivate the maize landraces and consume them as food. However, these landraces are deficient in β-carotene content. Thus, we aimed to incorporate the crtRB1 gene from UMI285β(+) into the geneti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes12050762 |
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author | Qutub, Maqbool Chandran, Sarankumar Rathinavel, Krishnakumar Sampathrajan, Vellaikumar Rajasekaran, Ravikesavan Manickam, Sudha Adhimoolam, Karthikeyan Muniyandi, Samuel Jeberson Natesan, Senthil |
author_facet | Qutub, Maqbool Chandran, Sarankumar Rathinavel, Krishnakumar Sampathrajan, Vellaikumar Rajasekaran, Ravikesavan Manickam, Sudha Adhimoolam, Karthikeyan Muniyandi, Samuel Jeberson Natesan, Senthil |
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description | In the North Eastern Himalayan region (NEHR) of India, maize is an important food crop. The local people cultivate the maize landraces and consume them as food. However, these landraces are deficient in β-carotene content. Thus, we aimed to incorporate the crtRB1 gene from UMI285β(+) into the genetic background of the NEHR maize landrace, Yairipok Chujak (CAUM66), and thereby enhance the β-carotene content through marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC). In this regard, we backcrossed and screened BC(1)F(1) and BC(2)F(1) plants possessing the heterozygous allele for crtRB1 and then screened with 106 polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The plants having maximum recurrent parent genome recovery (RPGR) were selected in each generation and selfed to produce BC(2)F(2) seeds. In the BC(2)F(2) generation, four plants (CAUM66-54-9-12-2, CAUM66-54-9-12-11, CAUM66-54-9-12-13, and CAUM66-54-9-12-24) having homozygous crtRB1-favorable allele with maximum RPGR (86.74–90.16%) were selected and advanced to BC(2)F(3). The four selected plants were selfed to produce BC(2)F(3) and then evaluated for agronomic traits and β-carotene content. The agronomic performance of the four lines was similar (78.83–99.44%) to that of the recurrent parent, and β-carotene content (7.541–8.711 μg/g) was on par with the donor parent. Our study is the first to improve the β-carotene content in NEHR maize landrace through MABC. The newly developed lines could serve as potential resources to further develop nutrition-rich maize lines and could provide genetic stock for use in breeding programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-81572912021-05-28 Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding Qutub, Maqbool Chandran, Sarankumar Rathinavel, Krishnakumar Sampathrajan, Vellaikumar Rajasekaran, Ravikesavan Manickam, Sudha Adhimoolam, Karthikeyan Muniyandi, Samuel Jeberson Natesan, Senthil Genes (Basel) Article In the North Eastern Himalayan region (NEHR) of India, maize is an important food crop. The local people cultivate the maize landraces and consume them as food. However, these landraces are deficient in β-carotene content. Thus, we aimed to incorporate the crtRB1 gene from UMI285β(+) into the genetic background of the NEHR maize landrace, Yairipok Chujak (CAUM66), and thereby enhance the β-carotene content through marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC). In this regard, we backcrossed and screened BC(1)F(1) and BC(2)F(1) plants possessing the heterozygous allele for crtRB1 and then screened with 106 polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The plants having maximum recurrent parent genome recovery (RPGR) were selected in each generation and selfed to produce BC(2)F(2) seeds. In the BC(2)F(2) generation, four plants (CAUM66-54-9-12-2, CAUM66-54-9-12-11, CAUM66-54-9-12-13, and CAUM66-54-9-12-24) having homozygous crtRB1-favorable allele with maximum RPGR (86.74–90.16%) were selected and advanced to BC(2)F(3). The four selected plants were selfed to produce BC(2)F(3) and then evaluated for agronomic traits and β-carotene content. The agronomic performance of the four lines was similar (78.83–99.44%) to that of the recurrent parent, and β-carotene content (7.541–8.711 μg/g) was on par with the donor parent. Our study is the first to improve the β-carotene content in NEHR maize landrace through MABC. The newly developed lines could serve as potential resources to further develop nutrition-rich maize lines and could provide genetic stock for use in breeding programs. MDPI 2021-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8157291/ /pubmed/34069791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes12050762 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Qutub, Maqbool Chandran, Sarankumar Rathinavel, Krishnakumar Sampathrajan, Vellaikumar Rajasekaran, Ravikesavan Manickam, Sudha Adhimoolam, Karthikeyan Muniyandi, Samuel Jeberson Natesan, Senthil Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title | Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title_full | Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title_fullStr | Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title_short | Improvement of a Yairipok Chujak Maize Landrace from North Eastern Himalayan Region for β-Carotene Content through Molecular Marker-Assisted Backcross Breeding |
title_sort | improvement of a yairipok chujak maize landrace from north eastern himalayan region for β-carotene content through molecular marker-assisted backcross breeding |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes12050762 |
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