Chromosomal regions associated with segregation distortion in maize 外文电子书籍.pdfVIP

Theor Appl Genet (2002) 105:622–628 DOI 10.1007/s00122-002-0970-9 H. Lu · J. Romero-Severson · R. Bernardo Chromosomal regions associated with segregation distortion in maize Received: 15 December 2001 / Accepted: 16 February 2002 / Published online: 19 June 2002 © Springer-Verlag 2002 Abstract Segregation distortion skews the genotypic ence of segregation distortion regions (SDRs). Three frequencies from their Mendelian expectations. Our ob- known gametophytic factors are possible genetic causes jectives in this study were to assess the frequency of oc- of these SDRs. As shown in previous research, segrega- currence of segregation distortion in maize, identify tion distortion does not affect the estimate of map dis- chromosomal regions consistently associated with segre- tance when only one gametophytic factor is present in an gation distortion, and examine the effects of gametophyt- SDR. ic factors on linkage mapping. We constructed a simple sequence repeat (SSR) linkage map for a LH200/LH216 Keywords Segregation distortion · Maize · Linkage map · F2Syn3 (i.e., random-mated three times) population, and Gametophytic factor compared the segregation distortion in this map with the segregation distortion in three published linkage maps. Among 1,820 codominant markers across the four map- Introduction ping populations, 301 (17%) showed segregation distor- tion (P 0.05). The frequency of markers showing The law of segregation, which is the most fundamental segregation distortion ranged from 19% in the law in Mendelian genetics, relies on: (1) a predictable Tx303/CO159 mapping population to 36% in the transmission