TY  - INPR
A1  - Pfenninger, Markus
A1  - Reuß, Friederike
A1  - Kiebler, Angelika
A1  - Schönnenbeck, Philipp
A1  - Caliendo, Cosima
A1  - Gerber, Susanne
A1  - Cocchiararo, Berardino
A1  - Reuter, Sabrina
A1  - Blüthgen, Nico
A1  - Mody, Karsten
A1  - Mishra, Bagdevi
A1  - Bálint, Miklós
A1  - Thines, Marco
A1  - Feldmeyer, Barbara
T1  - Genomic basis of drought resistance in Fagus sylvatica
T2  - bioRxiv
N2  - In the course of global climate change, central Europe is experiencing more frequent and prolonged periods of drought. The drought years 2018 and 2019 affected European beeches (Fagus sylvatica L.) differently: even in the same stand, drought damaged trees neighboured healthy trees, suggesting that the genotype rather than the environment was responsible for this conspicuous pattern. We used this natural experiment to study the genomic basis of drought resistance with Pool-GWAS. Contrasting the extreme phenotypes identified 106 significantly associated SNPs throughout the genome. Most annotated genes with associated SNPs (>70%) were previously implicated in the drought reaction of plants. Non-synonymous substitutions led either to a functional amino acid exchange or premature termination. A SNP-assay with 70 loci allowed predicting drought phenotype in 98.6% of a validation sample of 92 trees. Drought resistance in European beech is a moderately polygenic trait that should respond well to natural selection, selective management, and breeding.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72885
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-728851
ER  -