The development of superior soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr., cultivars exhibiting resistance to insects has been hindered due to linkage drag, a common phenomenon when introgressing alleles from exotic germplasm. Simple-sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used previously to map soybean insect resistance (SIR) quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a ‘Cobb’ × PI 229358 population, and subsequently used to create near-isogenic lines (NILs) with SIR QTL in a ‘Benning’ genetic background. SIR QTLs were mapped on linkage groups (LGs) M (SIRQTL-M), G (SIRQTL-G), and H (SIRQTL-H). The objectives of this study were to 1) evaluate linkage drag for seed yield by using Benning-derived NILs selected for SIRQTL-M, SIRQTL-H, and SIRQTL-G; 2) assess the amount of PI 229358 genome surrounding the SIR QTL in each Benning NIL; and 3) evaluate the individual effects these three QTLs on antibiosis and antixenosis to corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), and soybean looper, Pseudoplusia includens (Walker). Yield data collected in five environments indicated that a significant yield reduction is associated with SIRQTL-G compared with NILs without SIR QTL. Overall, there was no yield reduction associated with SIRQTL-M or SIRQTL-H. A significant antixenosis and antibiosis effect was detected for SIRQTL-M in insect feeding assays, with no effect detected in antixenosis or antibiosis assays for SIRQTL-G or SIRQTL-H without the presence of PI 229358 alleles at SIRQTL-M. These results support recent findings concerning these loci.
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1 August 2008
Seed Yield of Near-Isogenic Soybean Lines with Introgressed Quantitative Trait Loci Conditioning Resistance to Corn Earworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Soybean Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from PI 229358
C. V. Warrington,
S. Zhu,
W. A. Parrott,
J. N. All,
H. R. Boerma
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Journal of Economic Entomology
Vol. 101 • No. 4
August 2008
Vol. 101 • No. 4
August 2008
corn earworm
Glycine max
marker-assisted selection
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI
soybean looper