Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

GWAS, MWAS and mGWAS provide insights into precision agriculture based on genotype-dependent microbial effects in foxtail millet

  • Yayu Wang,
  • Xiaolin Wang,
  • Shuai Sun,
  • Canzhi Jin,
  • Jianmu Su,
  • Jinpu Wei,
  • Xinyue Luo,
  • Jiawen Wen,
  • Tong Wei,
  • Sunil Kumar Sahu,
  • Hongfeng Zou,
  • Hongyun Chen,
  • Zhixin Mu,
  • Gengyun Zhang,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Xun Xu,
  • Lone Gram,
  • Huanming Yang,
  • Ertao Wang,
  • Huan Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33238-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Plant genotype alone appears to be insufficient to explain trait variations. This study integrates GWAS, MWAS and mGWAS in 827 foxtail millet cultivars, revealing that root-associated microbiota affect plant phenotypes in a host genotype-dependent manner.