PAG-I Plant Genome I Conference

Town & Country Conference Center, San Diego, CA, November, 1992.


PG-I: AN UPDATE OF THE Phaseolus vulgaris LINKAGE MAP: ADDITION OF KNOWN SEQUENCES, RAPDs, AND QTLs FOR SEED SIZE

AN UPDATE OF THE Phaseolus vulgaris LINKAGE MAP: ADDITION OF KNOWN SEQUENCES, RAPDs, AND QTLs FOR SEED SIZE

C. Eduardo Vallejos, Ney S. Sakiyama, Zhi-Hong. Yu, Department of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Group, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611


A backcross between a Mesoamerican breeding line ('XR-235-1') and the Andean cultivar 'Calima' had been used as a mapping population to construct a linkage map of the common bean. In addition to allelic differences at a large number of molecular marker loci, these genotypes differ in seed size by a factor of two. We have now added to the linkage map the location of five known sequences, 12 RAPD markers, and have identified several regions of the genome carrying QTLs that affect seed size. Data have been analyzed with Mapmaker/QTL (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research). The map now has over 260 markers that cover about 1,000 cM of the bean genome.


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