Willmar L. Leiser, Henry Frederick W. Rattunde, Eva Weltzien, Ndiaga
Cisse, Magagi Abdou, Abdoulaye Diallo, Abocar O. Touré, Barbara Hufnagel,
Jurandir V. Magalhaes and Bettina I.G. Haussmann
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West Africa
• Highly weathered soils, low pH, low
soil organic matter and high P fixation
• most smallholder farmers fields
show very low levels of plant available
soil P (<6ppm Bray-1 P)
• fields, which are cropped by women
show generally even lower values
(<3ppm Bray-1 P)
Mueller et al. 2012; Nature;490;7419;254-257
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High P (>20kg P) vs
Year 2011-2012
60 Genotypes
Low P (0kg P)
Year 2006-2010
70 Genotypes
Year 2010-2012
80 Genotypes
8 Genotypes
29 (48) useful field trials
+ pot experiment
+ extra field trials
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~ 10% delay in flowering
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More than 50% yield reduction
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• strong correlation between –P and +P grain yield performance
• direct selection necessary, feasible and more efficient
Leiser et al., 2012. Crop Science
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8
7
R² = 0.04ns
PBM (kg ha-1)
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
80
Crown Root Angle (°)
8
R² = 0.01ns
7
Yield
P-conc.
P-uptake
P-use
• Landraces are important source germplasm
• No single adaptation mechanism identified
P BM (kg ha-1)
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
30
40
50
60
Mycorrhiza Colonized Root Length (%)
Leiser et al., 2014. Plant and Soil
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GWAS for grain yield BLUPs of 187 WCA sorghum genotypes evaluated across
29 environments in three West African countries from 2006-2012. 220,934
SNPs derived from Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS).
Leiser et al., 2014. BMC Plant Biology
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Possible pleiotropic effect of SbMATE on Al-tolerance and P-efficiency
Leiser et al., 2014. BMC Plant Biology
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Gamuyao et al. 2012; Nature; 488;7412;535-539
• exploiting genomic synteny of rice and sorghum
• homologous genes for PSTOL1 in sorghum identified
Hufnagel et al., 2014, Plant Physiology
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Brazil
West Africa
SNPs in PSTOL1 genes
Sb03g006765_1912
Sb03g031690_2305
PSTOL1 involved in P-efficiency in sorghum through possibly similar mechanism as in rice
Hufnagel et al., 2014, Plant Physiology
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• Large impact of P on sorghum growth
• General good adaptation of West African sorghum to low P
soils
• Direct selection in low P necessary and feasible
• Landraces very valuable source germplasm
• No single mechanism identified for P-efficiency
• Al-tolerance and P-efficiency possibly controlled by same
gene SbMATE  pleiotropy
• PSTOL1 homologs of rice involved in P-adaptation in
sorghum; similar mechanism
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CNRA- Bambey
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