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TABLE 10.1 List of Some Plants for Which GWAS has been Used to Identify Genes in Response to Stress
Plant
Study Done
Trait Identified/Possible Outcomes
References
Arabidopsis thaliana
Low water potential induced proline
accumulation
Genes related to cellular metabolic and redox
status
Verslues et al. (2014)
Oryza sativa
To study salinity tolerance
New QTLs related to stress tolerance
Kumar et al. (2015)
Oryza sativa
Grain yield under drought condition
Genes related to drought tolerance were identified Pantaliao et al. (2016)
Sorghum bicolor
Heat tolerance during vegetative stage
of growth
Gene directly or indirectly linked to the pathways
involved in heat tolerance were identified
Chen et al. (2017)
Medicago sativa L.
To map loci associated with plant
growth under salt stress
Putative candidate gene linked to marker loci
related to salt tolerance
Liu et al. (2017)
Brassica napus L.
Salt tolerance related QTL
38 possible genes identified
Wan et al. (2017)
Soybean
Role in regulation of photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
Wang et al. (2020)
Camelina
To study seed germination under salt
stress condition
17 SNPs were identified for metabolism and
cellular activities
Luo et al. (2020)
Rice
To find SNPs related to salt removal in
leaf sheath of rice
Genes associated with Na+ removal in leaf under
salinity conditions
Neang et al. (2020)
Rice
For early-stage salt tolerance
QTLs for salt stress tolerance
Nayyeripasand et al.
(2021)
Rice
To identify loci associated with sulfur
deficiency
Loci associated with root and root length was
identified.
Pariasca-Tanaka et al.
(2020)
Genes associated with loci for (sulfotransferases)
important in S metabolic pathways
Triticum aestivum
In artificial warm treatment
Fusarium head blight
Tessmann et al. (2018)
Wheat
For multiple biotic stress resistance
Significant marker-trait associations (MTAs)
identified for multiple biotic stresses
Bhatta et al. (2019)