PAG-I Plant Genome I Conference

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


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A GENETIC LINKAGE MAP OF Saccharum spontaneum 'SES208'

Salah M. Al-Janabi, Rhonda. J. Honeycutt, Michael McClelland, and Bruno W.S. Sobral. California Institute of Biological Research 1099 N. Torry Pines Road, Suite 300, La Jolla, Ca, 92037


The Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction (AP-PCR) was used to construct a genetic linkage map of the genome of the Saccharum spontaneum 'SES208'. The mapping population was composed of 88 progeny from the ADP 85-0068 X SES 208 cross. Nearly 300 primers (10-mers) were screened against the mapping parents, SES208 and ADP068. Approximately 100 of the 300 primers were selected for mapping based on number of polymorphism detected that distinguished the mapping parents. Using these primers we screened more than 1600 loci, of which 300 were polymorphic. Over 230 of these polymorphic fragments segregated 1:1 (at 98% confidence level) in the progeny, and therefore could be mapped using Map Maker. The three point analysis of the mapping data using maximum theta of 0.25 and minimum LOD score of 3.0 showed that 20% of the markers are unlinked, while 80% of the markers are in linkage groups comprised of 2 or more markers. Linkages were also detected in the joint map that combines the results of both AP-PCR and the RFLP polymorphisms detected in the same population by a group at Cornell University.


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