Environmentally-mediated yield effects of vernalization and photoperiod alleles in historic winter wheat trials
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Abstract
In common wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.), variation at the Vrn1 and Ppd1 loci changes plant phenology, resulting in differential adaptation useful to breeders. Because the effects of phenology on grain yield are conditional on environmental factors, the incorporation of markers for Vrn1 and Ppd1 alleles into breeding approaches has proven difficult. Historic phenotypic, genotypic, and environmental data can provide insight into the relationship between major phenology alleles and grain yield as mediated by environmental variables. Analyses of eight years of breeding trials (1,038 lines at 219 site-years) determined that weak vrn1 alleles and Ppd1 insensitivity alleles have variable effects. These effects change depending on an environment’s winter temperature and latitude, respectively, but the environmentally-driven changes in effect of vrn1 alleles are much more variable than effects of Ppd1 alleles. Mediation analyses showed phenologically-dependent environmental variables are one mechanism through which phenological changes created by vrn1 and Ppd1 variants alter yield across multiple developmental stages. Environmentally-driven relationships between flowering time and yield were modeled to estimate yield allele effects as a function of effects on phenology and environmental variables. Weak winter alleles at vrn1 may play a stabilizing role on yield, due to the correlation of winter conditions that drive larger effects with later-season warm temperatures that penalize later maturity. A better mechanistic understanding of how these loci drive environment-specific yield effects may facilitate utilization of markers for these alleles and improve predictive modeling of yield.Keywords
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