J Integr Plant Biol ›› 2015, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (8): 698-707.DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12326

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Combinations of Hd2 and Hd4 genes determine rice adaptability to Heilongjiang Province, northern limit of China

Xiufeng Li1,2†, Huazhao Liu1,3†, Maoqing Wang4, Hualong Liu5, Xiaojie Tian1,2, Wenjia Zhou1,2, Tianxiao Lü1,2, Zhenyu Wang1, Chengcai Chu6, Jun Fang6* and Qingyun Bu1*   

  • 收稿日期:2014-10-12 接受日期:2014-12-16 出版日期:2014-12-30 发布日期:2014-12-30

Combinations of Hd2 and Hd4 genes determine rice adaptability to Heilongjiang Province, northern limit of China

Xiufeng Li1,2†, Huazhao Liu1,3†, Maoqing Wang4, Hualong Liu5, Xiaojie Tian1,2, Wenjia Zhou1,2, Tianxiao Lü1,2, Zhenyu Wang1, Chengcai Chu6, Jun Fang6* and Qingyun Bu1*   

  1. 1Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China
    2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
    3Rice Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Land Reclamation Sciences, Jiamusi, China
    4Beidahuang Kenfeng Seed Co. Ltd., Harbin, China
    5College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
    6State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

摘要： Heilongjiang province, located in north limit of china, is the largest elite base of rice production in china. Rice varieties from south to north of Heilongjiang have to flower more and more early. We revealed HD2 and HD4 are two key genes which act additively to determine flowering time in Heilongjiang province.

Abstract:

Heading date is a key trait in rice domestication and adaption, and a number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified. The rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars in the Heilongjiang Province, the northernmost region of China, have to flower extremely early to fulfill their life cycle. However, the critical genes or different gene combinations controlling early flowering in this region have not been determined. QTL and candidate gene analysis revealed that Hd2/Ghd7.1/OsPRR37 plays a major role in controlling rice distribution in Heilongjiang. Further association analysis with a collection of rice cultivars demonstrated that another three major QTL genes (Hd4/Ghd7, Hd5/DTH8/Ghd8, and Hd1) also participate in regulating heading date under natural long day (LD) conditions. Hd2/Ghd7.1/OsPRR37 and Hd4/Ghd7 are two major QTLs and function additively. With the northward rice cultivation, the Hd2/Ghd7.1/OsPRR37 and Hd4/Ghd7 haplotypes became non-functional alleles. Hd1 might be non-functional in most Heilongjiang rice varieties, implying that recessive hd1 were selected during local rice breeding. Non-functional Hd5/DTH8/Ghd8 is very rare, but constitutes a potential target for breeding extremely early flowering cultivars. Our results indicated that diverse genetic combinations of Hd1, Hd2, Hd4, and Hd5 determined the different distribution of rice varieties in this northernmost province of China.

 

Li X, Liu H, Wang M, Liu H, Tian X, Zhou W, Lü T, Wang Z, Chu C, Fang J, Bu Q (2015) Combinations of Hd2 and Hd4 genes determine rice adaptability to Heilongjiang Province, northern limit of China. J Integr Plant Biol 57: 698–707 doi: 10.1111/jipb.12326

Key words: Rice, heading date, Hd1, Hd2, Hd4, Hd5

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