Radiation hybrid mapping of the species cytoplasm-specific (scsae) gene in wheat. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Radiation hybrid (RH) mapping is based on radiation-induced chromosome breakage and analysis of chromosome segment retention or loss using molecular markers. In durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L., AABB), an alloplasmic durum line [(lo) durum] has been identified with chromosome 1D of T. aestivum L. (AABBDD) carrying the species cytoplasm-specific (scsae) gene. The chromosome 1D of this line segregates as a whole without recombination, precluding the use of conventional genome mapping. A radiation hybrid mapping population was developed from a hemizygous (lo) scsae--line using 35 krad gamma rays. The analysis of 87 individuals of this population with 39 molecular markers mapped on chromosome 1D revealed 88 radiation-induced breaks in this chromosome. This number of chromosome 1D breaks is eight times higher than the number of previously identified breaks and should result in a 10-fold increase in mapping resolution compared to what was previously possible. The analysis of molecular marker retention in our radiation hybrid mapping panel allowed the localization of scsae and 8 linked markers on the long arm of chromosome 1D. This constitutes the first report of using RH mapping to localize a gene in wheat and illustrates that this approach is feasible in a species with a large complex genome.

published proceedings

  • Genetics

author list (cited authors)

  • Hossain, K. G., Riera-Lizarazu, O., Kalavacharla, V., Vales, M. I., Maan, S. S., & Kianian, S. F.

citation count

  • 40

complete list of authors

  • Hossain, Khwaja G||Riera-Lizarazu, Oscar||Kalavacharla, Venugopal||Vales, M Isabel||Maan, Schivcharan S||Kianian, Shahryar F

publication date

  • September 2004