Genetic variation and association mapping of phenolic, flavonoid content and antioxidant capacity in USDA rice mini-core collection

Genotypic diversity of total phenolics, flavonoid content and antioxidant capacity in the USDA rice mini-core collection was analyzed. Wide genotypic variation was found in total phenolics, flavonoid content and ABTS antioxidant capacity. Genome-wide association mapping between the three antioxidant traits and 155 SSR markers was conducted using Q + K model which takes both population structure (Q) and relative kinship (K) into consideration. A total of 23 marker trait association were identified with markers from Rc gene showed the strongest association with the three antioxidant traits. Rid12, RM484, RM162, RM5371 were commonly detected for phenolic content, flavonoids content and antioxidant capacity.