Adopted date: August 27,2024
Abstract:
In order to preliminarily reveal the genetic patterns of crude protein content, starch content, neutral detergent fiber (NDF) content, acid detergent fiber (ADF) content, soluble sugar content and in vitro dry matter digestibility in maize. In this study, 183 maize inbred lines were planted in Guiyang according to randomized block grouping, and maize crude protein, starch, NDF, ADF, soluble sugar and in vitro dry matter digestibility were determined, and the test materials were genotyped using the Maize SNP 50 , and genome-wide linkage analyses were performed using the mixed linear model (MLM), which identified 31, 61, 11, 36, 20, 20, 20 and 20 maize silages, respectively. 31, 61, 11, 36, 20 and 42 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci significantly associated with crude protein, starch, NDF, ADF, soluble sugar and in vitro dry matter digestibility (P < 0.001) were identified, and the explanation rates for phenotypic variation were 5.80%~11.40%, 5.78%~11.38%, 5.78%~7.85%, 5.81%~10.37%, 5.78%~7.35% and 5.79%~11.33%, respectively. Meanwhile, SYN6712, PHM1190.3, SYN7541 and PZE-104072386 were found to belong to the one-cause-multiple-effect loci; among them, SYN6712, PHM1190.3 and SYN7541 on chromosome 6 were simultaneously and significantly associated with starch and in vitro dry matter digestibility, and PZE-104072386 on chromosome 4 was simultaneously and significantly associated with ADF and soluble sugar, and after allelic variation identification, we found that the T/T genotype was an excellent allelic variation of SYN6712 and PHM1190.3. Meanwhile, the candidate genes Zm00001d037272, Zm00001d037386, Zm00001d037532 and Zm00001d051166 were excavated. These results can provide theoretical support for the subsequent research on the genetic mechanism of maize quality traits such as crude protein, starch, NDF, ADF and soluble sugar, as well as for the use of molecular markers to assist breeding.