PAG-II Plant Genome II Conference

Town & Country Conference Center, San Diego, CA, January, 1994.


PG-II: A DETAILED GENETIC LINKAGE MAP INCLUDING A CITRUS TRISTEZA VIRUS RESISTANCE GENE DERIVED FROM A CROSS BETWEEN TWO INTERGENERIC CITRUS X PONCIRUS HYBRIDS

A DETAILED GENETIC LINKAGE MAP INCLUDING A CITRUS TRISTEZA VIRUS RESISTANCE GENE DERIVED FROM A CROSS BETWEEN TWO INTERGENERIC CITRUS X PONCIRUS HYBRIDS.

Frank Suozhan Chenq*, Mikeal L. Roose, Claire T. Federici, and Ricarda S. Kupper. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. *Department of Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456.


A detailed genetic linkage map was developed from a cross between two citrus rootstocks, 'Sacaton' citrumelo (Citrus paradisi x Poncirus trifoliata) and 'Troyer' citrange (C. sinensis x P. trifoliata) using the JOINMAP program [P. Stam, The Plant Cell 3:739 (1993)]. It includes 53 codominant isozyme and RFLP markers and 106 dominant RAPD markers on 9 linkage groups that presumably correspond to the 9 citrus chromosomes. The total map length was 530 cM and 6 markers were unlinked. Bulked segregant analysis was used to locate a gene for resistance to citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in this population. Replicate cuttings of the mapping population were inoculated with CTV, grown in a greenhouse, and resistance determined using an ELISA test for CTV. Resistance segregated as a single dominant gene. 10 RAPD markers were mapped within 5 cM of the CTV resistance gene and one RAPD marker showed complete cosegregation with the gene. However, this marker is homozygous in Poncirus, whereas CTV resistance is heterozygous, so the marker is informative in only some crosses.


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