Novel organ-specific genetic factors for quantitative resistance to late blight in potato

PLoS One. 2019 Jul 16;14(7):e0213818. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213818. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Potato, Solanum tuberosum, is one of the major consumed food in the world, being the basis of the diet of millions of people. The main limiting and destructive disease of potato is late blight, caused by Phytophtora infestans. Here, we present a multi-environmental analysis of the response to P. infestans using an association panel of 150 accessions of S. tuberosum Group Phureja, evaluated in two localities in Colombia. Disease resistance data were merged with a genotyping matrix of 83,862 SNPs obtained by 2b-restriction site-associated DNA and Genotyping by sequencing approaches into a Genome-wide association study. We are reporting 16 organ-specific QTL conferring resistance to late blight. These QTL explain between 13.7% and 50.9% of the phenotypic variance. Six and ten QTL were detected for resistance response in leaves and stem, respectively. In silico analysis revealed 15 candidate genes for resistance to late blight. Four of them have no functional genome annotation, while eleven candidate genes code for diverse proteins, including a leucine-rich repeat kinase.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Disease Resistance
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Phytophthora infestans* / isolation & purification
  • Plant Diseases / genetics*
  • Plant Diseases / parasitology
  • Plant Proteins / genetics
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Solanum tuberosum / genetics*

Substances

  • Plant Proteins

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global affairs Canada through the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) that funded the project SAN Nariño number 108125-002 to TMV, and the “Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación” COLCIENCIAS for funding the Project 110171250437 to TMV and the PhD scholarship call 727-2015 to DKJR.