Introgressões de Triticum timopheevii em germoplasma brasileiro de trigo

Abstract

Increasing wheat yield in Brazil, as well as in the world, is a strategy for food security. However, a stagnation has been observed, due to, among other things, the reduction of genetic variability through selection over the decades. Triticum timopheevii Zhuk. (2n = 28, genome composition AtAtGG) is a tetraploid wheat which has desirable alleles, mainly for disease resistance, and it can be used to increase genetic variability in wheat. This study proposed performing the introgression of DNA segments from T. timopheevii lines into a Brazilian elite cultivar. Wheat/T. timopheevii lines in BC2 generation were pollinated with TBIO Sinuelo (TBIO) and Affymetrix Axiom Array along with genomic in situ hybridisation (GISH) were used to detect and characterize introgressions. In total, 548 crosses were performed, and 4,579 seeds were produced enabling the generation of a linkage map of T. timopheevii. This was used to identify 316 T. aestivum/T. timopheevii putative introgressions. Introgressions of all 14 groups of T. timopheevii were found. Comparative analysis showed that T. timopheevii has the 4AtL/5AtL translocations inherited from T. urartu and the species-specific 6AtS/1GS, 3AtL/4AtL already reported in T. timopheevii. From the data obtained T. timopheevii has good potential to be used in introgression programs because its introgression lines present high germination rates, fertility level and good seed production.