Abstract:
Objective To screen salt-tolerant mutants during germination, provide excellent germplasm resources for creating and breeding new salt-tolerant rice varieties.
Method The dried seeds of the high quality indica rice variety ‘Hangjuxiangsimiao’, were treated with spatial mutagenesis and heavy ion mutagenesis, and the mutagenised progeny were subjected to targeted screening for salt-tolerant mutants. Wild type (WT) ‘Hangjuxiangsimiao’ seeds were treated with different concentrations of NaCl solution to explore the appropriate concentration for screening salt-tolerant mutants at the germination stage, and then 5 205 M2 mutant materials were screened using germination rate as an index and verified in the M3 generation. WT and mutants were measured and analysed for salt-tolerance-related physiological indices and agronomic traits. 48 SSR markers were used to assess the genetic similarity between the mutant progeny and WT.
Result The appropriate NaCl concentration for screening salt-tolerant mutants at the germination stage was 340 mmol/L, and 12 salt-tolerant mutants were screened at the germination stage. The results of physiological indices showed that the SOD, POD, CAT and APX activities of two representative mutants 9-8 and 22-7 were significantly higher than those of WT, and the MDA, H2O2 and O2− contents were significantly lower, the salt-tolerant mutants exhibited stronger antioxidant capacity. The results of SSR marker detection showed that there were no SSR differentiation locus between WT seedlings and mutants of 19-49, 20-15, 20-49, 20-62, 15-6, 16-65, 22-7, 20-19 and 20-38, and one differentiation SSR locus between them and mutants of 9-8, 19-18, 42-113.
Conclusion Twelve salt-tolerant mutants were screened at the germination stage, which were highly consistent with the genetic background of wild-type ‘Hangjuxiangsimiao’. It has certain theoretical and practical significance for breeding new salt-tolerant rice varieties and studing the genetic mechanism of salt tolerance.