Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference

January 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Poster: Forest Trees
            

COMPARATIVE MAPPING IN NORWAY SPRUCE AND LOBLOLLY PINE

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universitą di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43100, Italy

² Institute of Forest Genetics, Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis 95616, USA

³ INRA, Forest Genetics Unit, Cestas 33610, France

⁴ Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale e Tecnologie Agrarie, Universitą degli Studi di Udine, via delle Scienze 208, Udine 33100, Italy

⁵ Department of Biotechnology and Breeding, Center of Forest Research (CIFOR-INIA), Apdo. 8111, Madrid 28080, Spain

Spruce (Picea) and pine (Pinus) are among the most commercially important conifers in the world. Genetic maps based on different genetic marker systems have been constructed for both pine and spruce and a reference consensus map based on EST markers has been reported for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Spruce is the most closely related genus to pine. Gene content and gene order are likely to be conserved between pine and spruce. In this study, a set of common EST markers have been identified in Norway spruce (Picea abies K.) and loblolly pine and species-specific primers were designed to amplify orthologous loci. To date, some of the homologous linkage groups have been identified.