Drought stress causes the greatest soybean [ (L.) Merr.] yield losses among the abiotic stresses in rain-fed U.S. growing areas. Because less than 10% of U.S. soybean hectares are irrigated, combating this stress requires soybean plants which possess physiological mechanisms to tolerate drought for a period of time. Phenotyping for these mechanisms is challenging, and the genetic architecture for these traits is poorly understood. A morphological trait, slow or delayed canopy wilting, has been observed in a few exotic plant introductions (PIs), and may lead to yield improvement in drought stressed fields. In this study, we visually scored wilting during stress for a panel of 162 genetically diverse maturity group VI-VIII soybean lines genotyped with the SoySNP50K iSelect BeadChip. Field evaluation of canopy wilting was conducted under rain-fed conditions at two locations (Athens, GA and Salina, KS) in 2015 and 2016. Substantial variation in canopy wilting was observed among the genotypes. Using a genome-wide association mapping approach, 45 unique SNPs that tagged 44 loci were associated with canopy wilting in at least one environment with one region identified in a single environment and data from across all environments. Several new soybean accessions were identified with canopy wilting superior to those of check genotypes. The germplasm and genomic regions identified can be used to better understand the slow canopy wilting trait and be incorporated into elite germplasm to improve drought tolerance in soybean.
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