Mang Zhu, Hantao Song, Jingwen Xu, Xiaohui Jiang, Yan Zhang, Jun Ma, Min Jiang, Yancong Li, Zhijian Xie, Tingting Liu, Guobin Chen, Mingliang Xu
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Abstract
Gray leaf spot (GLS) is one of the most damaging foliar diseases in maize. In previous research, we identified the ZmCPK39 gene, which confers resistance to GLS. This study demonstrates the utility of ZmCPK39 in breeding resistant maize varieties. Two parental lines of Zhengdan958 (the most widely cultivated hybrid in China), Chang7-2 and Zheng58, were selected for resistance improvement. These lines were crossed with Y32, a donor line high resistance to GLS, followed by six rounds of backcrossing to their respective recurrent parents. Foreground selection was performed in each generation to detect ZmCPK39, while background selection was conducted in the BC6F1 generations using a Maize 6 K DNA chip. The converted lines, Chang7-2 ZmCPK39 and Zheng58 ZmCPK39 , with a recovery rate of 94.67-96.48%, were crossed to produce the improved hybrid Zhengdan958 ZmCPK39 . This hybrid exhibited enhanced GLS resistance and an 11.95% higher yield under severe disease stress, while maintaining comparable yield performance under normal growth conditions relative to the original Zhengdan958. This study highlights the breeding potential of ZmCPK39 for improving GLS resistance in maize.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-025-01549-1.
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Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer.
All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, pathology, plant breeding, and ecology among others.
Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, papers describing novel methods and review papers. All submission will be subject to peer review ensuring the highest possible scientific quality standards.
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Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits. Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, and QTL studies in crop plants.
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