Whole-genome resequencing of the wild barley diversity collection: a resource for identifying and exploiting genetic variation for cultivated barley improvement

Published Date
January 01, 2026
Type
Journal Article
Whole-genome resequencing of the wild barley diversity collection: a resource for identifying and exploiting genetic variation for cultivated barley improvement
Authors:
Rebecca Spanner
Ahmad H. Sallam, Ahmad H. Sallam, Yu Guo, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Axel Himmelbach, Anne Fiebig, Jamie Simmons, Gerit Bethke, Yoonjung Lee, Luis Willian Pacheco Arge, Yinjie Qiu, Ana Badea, Michael Baum, Francois Belzile, Roi Ben-David, Robert S. Brueggeman, Austin Case, Luigi Cattivelli, Michael Davis, Christoph Dockter, Jaroslav Dolezel, Antonin Dreiseitl, Ryan Gavin, Lior Glick, Stephan Greiner, Ruth Hamilton, Patrick M. Hayes, Scott Heisel, Cynthia Henson, Benjamin Kilian, Takao Komatsuda, Chengdao Li, Chengdao Li, Cheng Liu, Ramamurthy Mahalingam, Maren Maruschewski, Oadi Matny, Andreas Maurer, Klaus Mayer, Klaus Mayer, Itay Mayrose, Matthew Moscou, Gary Muehlbauer, Youko Oono, Frank Ordon, Hakan Özkan, Ales Pecinka, Dragan Perovic, Klaus Pillen, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Joanne Russel, Jan Safar, Silvio Salvi, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Kazuhiro Sato, Kazuhiro Sato, Kazuhiro Sato, Thomas Schmutzer, Uwe Scholz, Jeness Scott, Gurcharn Singh Brar, Kevin P Smith, Mark Earl Sorrells, Manuel Spannagl, Nils Stein, Nils Stein, Alessandro Tondelli, Roberto Tuberosa, James Tucker, Thomas Turkington, Jan Valkoun, Ramesh Pal Singh Verma, Marcus A. Vinje, Maria von Korff, Maria von Korff, Jason G. Walling, Robbie Waugh, Robbie Waugh, Robbie Waugh, Roger P. Wise, Roger P. Wise, Brande Wulff, Shengming Yang, Shengming Yang, Guoping Zhang, Peter L. Morrell, Martin Mascher, Brian J. Steffenson

To exploit allelic variation in Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum, the Wild Barley Diversity Collection was subjected to paired-end Illumina sequencing at ∼9 × depth and evaluated for several agronomic traits. We discovered 240.2 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) after alignment to the Morex V3 assembly and 24.4 million short (1 to 50 bp) insertions and deletions. A genome-wide association study of lemma color identified one marker-trait association (MTA) on chromosome 1H close to HvBlp, the cloned gene controlling black lemma. Four MTAs were identified for seedling stem rust resistance, including 2 novel loci on chromosomes 1H and 6H and one co-locating to the complex RMRL1-RMRL2 locus on 5H. The whole-genome sequence data described herein will facilitate the identification and utilization of new alleles for barley improvement.

Citation:
Rebecca Spanner, Ahmad H. Sallam, Yu Guo, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Axel Himmelbach, Anne Fiebig, Jamie Simmons, Gerit Bethke, Yoonjung Lee, Luis Willian Pacheco Arge, Yinjie Qiu, Ana Badea, Michael Baum, Francois Belzile, Roi Ben-David, Robert S. Brueggeman, Austin Case, Luigi Cattivelli, Michael Davis, Christoph Dockter, Jaroslav Dolezel, Antonin Dreiseitl, Ryan Gavin, Lior Glick, Stephan Greiner, Ruth Hamilton, Patrick M. Hayes, Scott Heisel, Cynthia Henson, Benjamin Kilian, Takao Komatsuda, Chengdao Li, Cheng Liu, Ramamurthy Mahalingam, Maren Maruschewski, Oadi Matny, Andreas Maurer, Klaus Mayer, Itay Mayrose, Matthew Moscou, Gary Muehlbauer, Youko Oono, Frank Ordon, Hakan Özkan, Ales Pecinka, Dragan Perovic, Klaus Pillen, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Joanne Russel, Jan Safar, Silvio Salvi, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Kazuhiro Sato, Thomas Schmutzer, Uwe Scholz, Jeness Scott, Gurcharn Singh Brar, Kevin Smith, Mark Earl Sorrells, Manuel Spannagl, Nils Stein, Alessandro Tondelli, Roberto Tuberosa, James Tucker, Thomas Turkington, Jan Valkoun, Ramesh Pal Singh Verma, Marcus A. Vinje, Maria von Korff, Jason G. Walling, Robbie Waugh, Roger P. Wise, Brande Wulff, Shengming Yang, Guoping Zhang, Peter L. Morrell, Martin Mascher, Brian J. Steffenson. (1/1/2026). Whole-genome resequencing of the wild barley diversity collection: a resource for identifying and exploiting genetic variation for cultivated barley improvement. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 16 (1).
Keywords:
genome-wide association study
hordeum vulgare subsp
spontaneum
whole genome sequence data
agronomic traits