all possible modes of gene action observed global comparison expression maize f1 hybrid and its inbred parents在对玉米杂交种及其自交系亲本基因表达进行整体比较时观察到了作用可能模式.pdfVIP

Allpossiblemodesofgeneactionareobserved

inaglobalcomparisonofgeneexpression

inamaizeF1hybridanditsinbredparents

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RuthA.Swanson-Wagner*,YiJia,RhondaDeCook,LisaA.Borsuk,DanNettleton**,

andPatrickS.Schnable*†§**††‡‡

*InterdepartmentalGeneticsGraduateProgram,†DepartmentsofGenetics,DevelopmentandCellBiology,¶Statistics,and††Agronomy,§Interdepartmental

PlantPhysiologyGraduateProgram,InterdepartmentalBioinformaticsandComputationalBiologyGraduateProgram,and**CenterforPlantGenomics,

IowaStateUniversity,Ames,IA50011

EditedbyJeffreyL.Bennetzen,UniversityofGeorgia,Athens,GA,andapprovedMarch21,2006(receivedforreviewDecember4,2005)

Heterosisisthephenomenonwherebytheprogenyofparticularinbreedingdepressioninautotetraploidsincreasesfasterthan

inbredlineshaveenhancedagronomicperformancerelativetohomozygosity.

bothparents.AlthoughseveralhypotheseshavebeenproposedtoTheoverdominancehypothesis(1,5,7)statesthattheimproved

explainthisfundamentalbiologicalphenomenon,theresponsibleperformanceofanF1hybridrelativetoitsinbredparentsisa

molecularmechanismshavenotbeendetermined.Themaizeconsequenceoffavorableallelicinteractionsatheterozygousloci

inbredlinesB73andMo17produceaheteroticF1hybrid.Globalthatoutperformeitherhomozygousstate.Althoughtheseclassical

patternsofgeneexpressionwerecomparedinseedlingsofthesehypotheseshaveprovidedguidanceforexperimentation(8–11),it

threegenotypesbyusingamicroarraythatcontains13,999cs.islikelythatheterosis