Abstract
Soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, is one of the most important pests in soybean production worldwide. In China, 11 different races of SCN, including a newly identified race ‘X12’ with super-virulence, have been surveyed and found to be distributed in 22 provinces. Among them, races 1, 3 and 4 are dominant in the two principal soybean-producing areas, Northeast China and Huanghuaihai Valley, causing over 120 million dollars of annual yield loss. Rapid and reliable PCR-based approaches have been developed for the molecular diagnosis of SCN. High-throughput methods for the identification of soybean resistance against SCN are also developed with specific single nucleotide polymorphism markers by using Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR technology. Over 10,000 soybean germplasm sources were evaluated for their SCN resistance, and 28 SCN-resistant soybean accessions were selected to construct an applied core collection, which has been used for soybean breeding in China. Recently, the genome sequences of SCN and soybean are publically available, and two major SCN-resistant genes (rhg1 and Rhg4) have been identified in soybean, which greatly facilitate the researches on SCN virulence and soybean resistance, and also soybean resistance breeding against SCN. However, the management of SCN still faces many bottlenecks, for instance, the single resistance genes in soybean cultivars can be easily overcome by new SCN races; the identified resistance genes are inadequate to meet the practical breeding needs; and our understanding of the mechanisms of SCN virulence and soybean resistance to SCN are limited. SCN is a destructive threat to soybean production throughout the world including China. In this review, the major progress on soybean SCN is summarized, mainly focusing on the recent research progress in SCN, soybean resistance to SCN and integrated management of SCN in China, and aiming at a better understanding of the current SCN research status and prospects for future work.
Highlights
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is an important crop which provides a sustainable source of protein and oil worldwide
The soybean source Peking, conferring resistance to Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) races 1, 3 and 5, showed moderate susceptibility to a SCN population continuously selected on a resistant soybean line (RIL ExF67)
Through genotyping by specific locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) and genome-wide association study (GWAS) analyses, 19 quantitative trait loci (QTL) including three new QTLs were identified in 131 novel soybean sources conferring resistance to SCN race 3, 4 or both (Han et al 2015)
Summary
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is an important crop which provides a sustainable source of protein and oil worldwide. The soybean source Peking, conferring resistance to SCN races 1, 3 and 5, showed moderate susceptibility to a SCN population continuously selected on a resistant soybean line (RIL ExF67).
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