WU Yang-chun
College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agriculture UniversityGUO Bing-fu
Crops Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural SciencesGU Yong-zhe
National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology in Beijing( MOA) /Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesLUAN Xiao-yan
Soybean Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural SciencesQIU Hong-mei
Soybean Research Institute of Jilin Academy of Agricultural SciencesLIU Xin-lei
Soybean Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural SciencesLI Hai-yan
College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agriculture UniversityQIU Li-juan
College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agriculture University1College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun 130000; 2National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology in Beijing( MOA) /Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081; 3Crops Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang 330200; 4Soybean Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086; 5Soybean Research Institute of Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130033
National Natural Science Foundation of China(31960408);The Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program
Soybean is an economically-important food crop that contains about 40% of grain protein. The soybeans harvested from China are mainly used for food, and breeding for higher protein content is one of the main targets in soybean. Exploration of the genes related to soybean protein content and development of molecular markers are thus of great significance. In this study, a recombinant inbred line population was used by crossing a low protein soybean variety‘ ZH35’ ( female parent) with the high protein accession‘ Tokachi nagaha’ ( male parent) that was introduced from Japan. With the Bulked Segregant Analysis( BSA) analysis, nine SSR markers that associated to protein content were identified on three chromosomes, including chromosome 19 where no QTL was previously reported. This QTL qPRO-19-1 was allocated using an inclusive complete interval mapping method( ICIM-ADD) to the genetic interval of the molecular markers SSR_19_38 and SSR_19_59. This elite allele, which was derived from‘ Tokachi Nagaha’ , could explain 7.81% and 14.87% of phenotypic variations in F2: 15and F2: 16 with the LOD values of 3.43 and 3.98, respectively. The physical interval of qPRO-19-1 expanded 385 kb that harbored 36 annotated genes. Collectively, the genetic mapping of the new QTL qPRO-19-1 laid the foundation for map-based cloning gene and molecular marker assisted breeding for high protein soybean varieties.