PAG-I Plant Genome I Conference

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


PG-I: 73pg1

LOCATION OF A SINGLE GENE ON CHROMOSOME 1D THAT EFFECTS THE QUANTITATIVE TRAIT DAYS TO FLOWERING IN WHEAT.

Leann M. Rayfuse, M.C. Cadle and S.S. Jones, USDA-ARS, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6420


A single gene that delays days to flowering, a quantitative trait, has been located on chromosome 1D in wheat. This trait is neither vernalization or photoperiod sensitive. Two populations of 100 homozygous recombination substitution lines (RSLs) each were used to map this gene. These RSL's were derived from hybridization between Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring or Chinese Spring double ditelosomic 1D and a disomic substitution line of T. tauschii chromosome 1D in Chinese Spring. Biochemical, cytological, molecular, morphological and disease reaction markers were used. The RSLs were grown in replicated field trials in two locations in 1992. A bimodal distribution was found for days to flowering. Means based on individual allele and adjacent locus intervals showed that the QTL is distal to the high molecular weight glutenin locus on chromosome arm 1DL.


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