ASSESSMENT OF GENETIC VARIATION AND ALLELE MINING FOR QUALITY TRAITS IN AROMATIC RICE LANDRACES FROM INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS OF INDIA

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2023
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DIVISION OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES ICAR - INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE NEW DELHI – 110 012
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Rice crop is vital for food security of half of the global population. India has rich genetic diversity for both aromatic and non-aromatic rice landraces. We characterized 92 accessions of aromatic landrace germplasm collected from Indo-Gangetic region including 10 popular aromatic landraces of other states of India using 26 morphological characters. Landrace accessions displayed significant variation for plant height, culm length, flag-leaf length, panicle length, panicle exsertion, panicle bearing tillers, grain size, husk colour, pericarp colour and 1000-grain weight. First four principal components contributed 79% of phenotypic variation. Very high positive correlations found between plant height and culm length (r = 0.83), peduncle length and panicle length (0.66), grain length and TGW (0.78), and grain breadth and TGW (0.59). However, number of panicle bearing tillers showed negative association with grain length (-0.32), grain breadth (-0.33) and TGW (-0.43). Similarly, culm length also showed significant negative correlation with grain breadth (-0.48), grain length (-0.43) and TGW (-.046). Cluster analysis grouped all 92 landrace accessions into four clusters. Molecular analysis using 48 hypervariable microsatellite loci revealed the amplification of 11.0 alleles per locus, which clearly showed that a high level of DNA polymorphism exists between landrace accessions. The structure analysis showed the presence of four subpopulations in 96 accessions with numerous accessions showing allele sharing with other groups. The gene diversity analysis revealed the presence of high amount of expected heterozygosity (0.83), Shannon's Information index (1.99) and high gene flow (1.51). This was also supported by high polymorphism information content (0.806). The landraces revealed the presence of private alleles. The unique and rare alleles could be used for DNA fingerprinting and differentiation of genotypes. A high number of multiple alleles were observed in number of landrace accessions, which showed the presence of heterogeneity and heterozygotes in the landrace materials studied. The allele mining in BADH2 gene found that the desirable allele (8 bp deletion) was present in homozygous condition in 57.29% accessions, whereas it was in heterozygous state in 15.63% accessions. The C-A SNP mutation in GS3 gene was detected in Jeera Sail (IC0419046) and Champaran Basmati (IC0569188). The results of present study are useful for utilization of the landraces in genetic enhancement programmes specially designed for rice quality improvement and consumer's preference and conservation of diverse constellation of alleles of rice landrace germplasm
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