High-density mapping of durable and broad-spectrum stripe rust resistance gene Yr30 in wheat

The durable stripe rust resistance gene Yr30 was fine-mapped to a 610-kb region in which five candidate genes were identified by expression analysis and sequence polymorphisms. The emergence of genetically diverse and more aggressive races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) in the past twenty years has resulted in global stripe rust outbreaks and the rapid breakdown of resistance genes. Yr30 is an adult plant resistance (APR) gene with broad-spectrum effectiveness and its durability. Here, we fine-mapped the YR30 locus to a 0.52-cM interval using 1629 individuals derived from residual heterozygous F_5:6 plants in a Yaco"S"/Mingxian169 recombinant inbred line population. This interval corresponded to a 610-kb region in the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) RefSeq version 2.1 on chromosome arm 3BS harboring 30 high-confidence genes. Five genes were identified as candidate genes based on functional annotation, expression analysis by RNA-seq and sequence polymorphisms between cultivars with and without Yr30 based on resequencing. Haplotype analysis of the target region identified six haplotypes (YR30_h1-YR30_h6) in a panel of 1215 wheat accessions based on the 660K feature genotyping array. Lines with YR30_h6 displayed more resistance to stripe rust than the other five haplotypes. Near-isogenic lines (NILs) with Yr30 showed a 32.94% higher grain yield than susceptible counterparts when grown in a stripe rust nursery, whereas there was no difference in grain yield under rust-free conditions. These results lay a foundation for map-based cloning Yr30.