Figure 8

Validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the Fusarium head blight QTL on chromosome 5A (5A2) in 523 contemporary breeding lines. SNPs selected for genotyping and their pair-wise linkage disequilibrium (LD) squared allele frequency correlation (r2) are shown in panel (a). The physical location of SNPs on the durum wheat cv. Svevo assembly38 and their physical distance from the vernalisation gene VRN1 (TraesCS5A01G391700) is shown in panel (b). Haplotypes detected in the breeding population are presented in panel (c) and the results of the two-tailed t-test between FHB indexes of these haplotypes are presented in panel (d). R in panel (c) stands for resistance alleles of DT696 and S for susceptibility alleles of DT707.