Deep genotyping of the gene GmSNAP facilitates pyramiding resistance to cyst nematode in soybean

Abstract Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is a highly destructive pathogen. The soybean host genome harbors at least two major genes for resistance (rhg1 and Rhg4), as well as a minor locus (SCN3-11). In the present study, a splicing site in GmSNAP11, the potential causal gene of SCN3-11, was identified by comparison of the GmSNAP11 cDNA sequences generated from resistant and susceptible soybean accessions. The sequence information was used to design a codominant CAPS marker, GmSNAP11-2565, which was used to genotype a panel of 209 soybean accessions varying with respect to SCN resistance. Analyses of the effect of the haplotypes formed by GmSNAP11-2565 and another large-effect (nonsynonymous) locus, GmSNAP11-2307, previously identified in GmSNAP11, revealed linkage disequilibrium (P