芝麻EST-SSR标记的开发和初步研究

为了加速分子标记在芝麻研究中的应用,利用网上现有的芝麻EST(expressed sequence tags)数据信息,开展了芝麻EST-SSR功能性标记的开发和利用研究。 在所有的3 328条芝麻EST序列中共确认得到1 785条非冗余EST序列。其中,在含有微卫星重复的148条序列中共检测有155个EST-SSR。非冗余EST序列总长为774.266 kb,平均每4.99 kb含有一个EST-SSR。EST-SSR的分布频率和特征分析表明,以AG/TC为重复基元(motif)的SSR出现最多,占总SSR的37.42%。利用这些序列,设计开发了50对EST-SSR引物,并分别选用36个芝麻、2个棉花、2个大豆和2个油葵进行多态性和通用性研究。其中44对引物在供试芝麻材料中扩增出条带,共产生108个位点,平均每对引物产生2.45个位点,多态信息含量(polymorphism information content, PIC)平均值为0.390。根据遗传相似性系数进行聚类,有26个芝麻材料聚类在两个大的亚类(III和IV)中,聚类结果表明芝麻的基因型与地理来源之间没有必然的联系。此外,分别有2对、3对和4对引物可以在棉花、大豆和油葵中进行通用性扩增。本研究证实这种全新开发的芝麻EST-SSR标记在芝麻遗传多样性分析、遗传图谱构建以及比较基因组等研究方面有广阔的利用前景。     

绿豆基因组SSR引物在豇豆属作物中的通用性

分子标记的种间通用性可降低其开发成本,提高利用效率,也有助于促进遗传研究较薄弱物种的分子遗传学研究。本文选取绿豆、小豆、豇豆及饭豆材料各3份, 分析1 205对新开发的绿豆基因组SSR引物在这些材料中的扩增效果,结果显示绿豆基因组SSR引物在豇豆、小豆和饭豆中的通用性比率分别为50.0%、73.3%和81.6%;多态性比率分别为4.1%、1.7%和1.5%;在4个种间均通用的引物469对。这些通用性SSR引物将有助于这4种食用豆类在多样性评价、连锁图谱的构建、基因定位及比较基因组学等方面的研究。     

高粱SSR和EST-SSR标记在割手密中的通用性分析

目前, 割手密中开发的分子标记有限, 为增加其分子标记数量, 本研究对高粱分子标记在割手密中的通用性进行分析。选用高粱的 29对基因组 SSR标记和 20对 EST-SSR标记在割手密种质 GSM39中进行筛选, 以评价其通用性。进一步利用 14份割手密材料评价标记的多态性和遗传多样性。结果显示： 70%的 EST-SSR引物在割手密中得到成功扩增, 可用的 EST-SSR引物中多态性比率占 50%。SSR引物在割手密中的通用性比率只有 34.5%, 但多态性比率为 70%。14对多态性引物在 14份割手密中共检测到33个等位基因, 平均观测等位基因数为2.4286, 平均有效等位基因数为1.7, 平均观测表观杂合度为0.544, 平均期望杂合度为 0.3858, Nei’ s基因多样性指数平均值为 0.3716。结果表明, EST-SSR引物的通用性高于 SSR引物, 但 SSR引物的多态性更高。这对割手密遗传多样性研究和比较基因组学研究具有重要意义。     

Expressed sequence tags from organ-specific cDNA libraries of tea (Camellia sinensis) and polymorphisms and transferability of EST-SSRs across Camellia species

Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world and the tea plant, Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze, is an important crop in many countries. To increase the amount of genomic information available for C. sinensis, we constructed seven cDNA libraries from various organs and used these to generate expressed sequence tags (ESTs). A total of 17,458 ESTs were generated and assembled into 5,262 unigenes. About 50% of the unigenes were assigned annotations by Gene Ontology. Some were homologous to genes involved in important biological processes, such as nitrogen assimilation, aluminum response, and biosynthesis of caffeine and catechins. Digital northern analysis showed that 67 unigenes were expressed differentially among the seven organs. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) motif searches among the unigenes identified 1,835 unigenes (34.9%) harboring SSR motifs of more than six repeat units. A subset of 100 EST-SSR primer sets was tested for amplification and polymorphism in 16 tea accessions. Seventy-one primer sets successfully amplified EST-SSRs and 70 EST-SSR loci were polymorphic. Furthermore, these 70 EST-SSR markers were transferable to 14 other Camellia species. The ESTs and EST-SSR markers will enhance the study of important traits and the molecular genetics of tea plants and other Camellia species.     

玉米和高粱SSR标记在薏苡中的通用性研究

旨在分析玉米和高粱SSR标记在其近缘种薏苡中的通用性和多态性,以期筛选可用于薏苡种质资源和遗传学研究的分子标记。以11份薏苡资源为供试材料,利用SSR-PCR扩增和毛细管电泳检测方法,对364对SSR引物进行了测试和筛选。结果表明,364对玉米和高粱来源的标记中有163对能在薏苡中扩增并得到清晰的条带,其中44对标记在薏苡中表现出良好的多态性。高粱SSR的通用性和多态性比例分别为58.02%和30.85%,玉米SSR标记的通用性和多态性比例分别为23.45%和26.47%,高粱SSR标记在薏苡中通用性和多态性更好。44对引物在11份薏苡材料中扩增出110条多态性条带,每对引物扩增出的条带数在1～5条之间,平均为2.5条,PIC为0.15～0.79,其中15对引物的PIC值大于0.5,占全部多态性引物的34.09%。筛选出的通用SSR引物可为薏苡种质资源多样性和分子遗传学研究提供可用的遗传标记,也是高粱、玉米和薏苡3种作物之间比较基因组学研究的有力工具。     

普通菜豆基因组SSR标记开发及在豇豆和小豆中的通用性分析

分子标记具种属间通用性可提高其利用效率,并降低标记开发成本。本研究基于Roche 454超高通量测序技术获得普通菜豆基因组测序结果,共开发了560个普通菜豆基因组SSR标记。利用2份普通菜豆品种对标记进行初步筛选,有421个标记能够有效扩增。用新开发的标记分析16份豇豆和16份小豆的通用性。结果显示,185个普通菜豆基因组SSR标记在豇豆中能有效扩增,通用性比率为43.9%;161个SSR标记在小豆中能有效扩增,通用性比率为38.2%;在豇豆和小豆中都能获得有效扩增条带的标记共138个;并且普通菜豆基因序列SSR标记在豇豆和小豆中的通用性比率高于基因间序列SSR标记。通用性标记的多态性分析表明,豇豆和小豆的多态性比率分别为34.0%和24.8%;且豇豆和小豆中基因间标记的多态性都比基因内标记的多态性高。上述通用性标记为豇豆属作物的多样性评价、连锁图谱的构建及基因定位等方面的研究提供了便利。     

花生栽培种EST-SSRs分布特征及应用研究

利用自行开发的20 160条花生栽培种荚果EST, 通过序列拼接, 获得8 289条无冗余EST。经搜索, 共检测出740个SSR位点, 分布于651条EST中, 发生频率为7.8%, 平均每6.8 kb EST序列含一个SSR位点。功能注释结果表明具生物过程、分子功能和细胞组分的EST分别为73、111和56条。在花生荚果EST-SSR中, 三核苷酸重复类型出现频率最高, 占总SSR的62.8%, 其次是二核苷酸重复类型, 占总SSR的33.6%。在出现的26类重复基序中, AG/TC重复基序出现频率最高, AAG/TTC次之。利用Primer premier 5从651条含有SSR的EST中共设计引物233对, 从中随机选取100对引物检测EST-SSR在花生栽培种中的多态性及在野生种中的可转移性。结果表明, 有86对引物在供试的22个花生栽培品种中得到有效扩增, 其中10对在栽培种中具有多态性, 每对引物检测出的等位基因数2~3个, 平均2.2个。可扩增引物在野生种中的可转移率为12.5%~100%,平均96%。在野生种间检测出多态性的引物76对,每对引物检测出等位基因2~9个, 平均4.06个。     

新疆野樱桃李EST-SSR引物开发及通用性评价

野生樱桃李是中国濒临灭绝的树种之一。本研究从分子水平对野樱桃李进行研究,以期为制定保护策略提供理论依据。从NCBI 数据库中下载樱桃李EST 序列,用SSR Hunter l.3 查找SSR 位点,用Primer 6.0 设计了30 对引物并验证引物的通用性。结果表明：有20 对引物能扩增出有效条带,扩增率为66.67%,其中9 对引物能扩增出多态性条带,多态性比率为45%。用20 对有效引物在欧洲李和天山樱桃中进行扩增,均表现良好的通用性,且同属植物间的通用性明显高于同科植物间,说明引物通用性的高低与基因组的差异有关,亲缘关系越近引物通用性越高。     

杨树SSR标记在柳树中的通用性分析

简单重复序列（simple sequence repeat,SSR）分子标记因其具有稳定性好、多等位基因、共显性遗传、数量丰富、基因组覆盖性好等优点,现己广泛应用于多种植物的遗传育种研究中。本研究利用杨树的48对基因组SSR引物及48对EST—SSR引物对6个苏柳品种进行了通用性分析。结果表明,杨树EST-SSR引物在柳树中的通用性达54．2％,而基因组SSR的通用性仅10．4％;但EST-SSR引物在有效引物中的多态性比例为80％,基因组SSR引物在有效引物中的多态性比例为100％。同时研究结果也表明,杨树SSR标记完全可以用于柳树群体或品种间的群传多样性分析。     

小豆SSR引物在绿豆基因组中的通用性分析

分析了187对小豆SSR引物在绿豆基因组中的可转移性,以期为绿豆分子遗传育种研究提供分析工具.结果表明,约75%的小豆SSR引物可在绿豆中有效扩增,但不同小豆连锁群SSR引物的可转移率存在差异.多态性分析发现80对引物中有28对在60份绿豆种质中可以检测到多态性,等位变异数从2～7不等,平均为2.9,PIC指数从0.02～0.69,平均为0.36.UPGMA聚类及主坐标分析表明,尽管同一省份的种质不能紧密聚在一起,但大多在聚类图上成簇状分布,说明相同来源的绿豆种质具有相似的遗传背景;此外,国外及我国边远地区的绿豆种质在遗传背景上与内部省份间存在明显差异.这些多态性SSR不仅可以有效用于绿豆分子遗传学研究,还可以用于不同来源绿豆种质资源的辅助鉴别.     

Characterization of dinucleotide and trinucleotide EST-derived microsatellites in the wheat genome

Over the past decade microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have attracted a considerable amount of attention from researchers. The aim of the present paper was to analyse expressed sequence tag-derived SSR (EST-SSR) marker variability in wheat and to investigate the relationships between the number and type of repeat units and the level of microsatellite polymorphism. Two hundred and forty-one new EST-SSR markers available in a public database () were characterized in eight durum wheat cultivars (Svevo, Ciccio, Primadur, Duilio, Meridiano, Claudio, Latino, Messapia), two accessions of Triticum turgidum var. dicoccoides (MG4343, MG29896), one accession of T. turgidum var. dicoccum (MG5323) and in the common wheat cv. Chinese Spring. Of these, 201 primer pairs (83.4%) amplified PCR products successfully, while the remaining 40 (16.6%) failed to amplify any product. Of the EST-SSRs analysed, 45.2% of the primer pairs amplified one or two PCR products. Multiple discrete PCR products were observed among both di- and trinucleotide EST-SSR markers (31.2 and 40.5%, respectively). Markers based on dinucleotide microsatellites were more polymorphic than those based on trinucleotide SSRs in the 12 wheat genotypes tested (68.9 and 52.7%, respectively). An average of 2.5 alleles for dinucleotide and 2.0 alleles for trinucleotide SSRs was observed. The data reported in the present work indicate the presence of a significant relationship between motif sequence types and polymorphism. The primer set based on the AG repeat motif showed the lowest percentage of polymorphism (55.0%), while the primer set based on the AC repeat motif showed t he highest percentage (85.0%). Among trinucleotide SSRs, the AGG microsatellite markers showed the highest percentage of polymorphism (70.0%), and the ACG motif the lowest value (25.0%). The characterization of these new EST-SSR markers and the results of our studyon the effect of repeat number and type of motifs could have important applications in the genetic analysis of agronomically important traits, quantitative trait locus discovery and marker-assisted selection.     

Developing and validating microsatellite markers in elephant grass (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Pennisetum purpureum</Emphasis> S.)

Elephant grass [Pennisetum purpureum S.; syn. Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone] is an important global forage crop and is recognized for high yields of herbage with good nutritive value. It also has high biomass potential to be utilized as a biofuel feedstock. Whereas several previous genetic studies adapted simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.] for investigations in elephant grass, the present study developed SSR markers from 3536 DNA sequences derived from 16 elephant grass entries. A total of 3866 SSRs were identified including 1028 monomeric, 2019 dimeric, 735 trimeric, 49 tetrameric, 20 pentameric and 15 hexameric repeat motifs. Three hundred and seven sequences contained more than one repeated motif, and 154 SSRs were present in compound formation. Susequenctly,  four elephant grass and two pearl millet genotypes were chosen to validate 727 SSR markers. Of these, 628 markers produced visually detectable amplification products, including 73 (11.6%) polymorphic ones across all six genotypes. Polymorphism between the four elephant grass genotypes was revealed by 316 (50.6%) markers with diversity index values ranging from 0.75 to 0.38. Dimeric SSRs had the highest polymorphic rate (48.7%). These validated SSR markers had 58.6% (368 of 628) transferability rate to pearl millet. The availability of these polymorphic SSR markers will support advanced genetic studies in P. purpureum and its relatives.     

Comparisons of RFLP and PCR-based markers to detect polymorphism between wheat cultivars

Previously chromosome 3A of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was reported to carry genes influencing yield, yield components, plant height, and anthesis date. The objective of current study was to survey various molecular marker systems for their ability to detect polymorphism between wheat cultivars Cheyenne(CNN) and Wichita (WI), particularly for chromosome3A. Seventy-seven `sequence tagged site' (STS), 10simple sequence repeat (SSR), 40 randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers, and 52 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) probes for wheat homoeologous group 3 chromosomes, were investigated. Three (3.9%) STS-PCR primer sets amplified polymorphic fragments for the two cultivars, of which one was polymorphic for chromosome 3A. Sixty percent of SSR markers detected polymorphism between CNN and WI of which 50% were polymorphic for chromosome 3A. Twenty percent of RAPD markers detected polymorphism between CNN and WI in general, but none of these detected polymorphism for chromosome 3A. Of the fifty-two RFLP probes, 78.8% detected polymorphism between CNN and WI for group 3 chromosomes with one or more of seven restriction enzymes and 42% of the polymorphic fragements were for chromosome 3A. These high levels of RFLP and SSR polymorphisms between two related wheat cultivars could be used to map and tag genes influencing important agronomic traits. It may also be important to reconsider RFLP as the most suitable marker system at least for anchor maps of closely related wheat cultivars. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

基于转录组测序的槜李EST-SSR标记开发

为开发槜李EST-SSR标记,本研究利用MISA软件筛选了槜李花转录组测序获得的35584条Unigenes,对其SSR信息进行分析后,利用Primer Premier 3.0软件设计EST-SSR引物,并随机选取40对SSR引物对12个李品种进行EST-SSR引物筛选及多态性分析。结果发现,在槜李花转录组中共搜索到个10791个SSR位点,分布于8433条Unigenes,SSR发生频率为23.70%,平均每3.71 kb含有1个SSR;SSR重复基元中二核苷酸重复出现频率最高,占总SSR数量的52.98%,其次为三核苷酸重复(占24.00%)和单核苷酸重复(占20.95%);二核苷酸重复基元以AG/CT为主(85.95%),三核苷酸重复基元以AAG/CTT为主(31.24%)。利用Primer Premier 3.0软件共设计出9870对候选引物,随机选择40对引物对12个李品种进行SSR引物筛选及多态性分析。40对引物均能扩增出预期大小的条带,有效扩增效率为100%,40对引物中有5对引物在12个李品种中表现出多态性。本研究开发的EST-SSR标记可为李属植物遗传多样性分析提供丰富的候选标记,同时可为槜李发育相关功能基因定位、遗传图谱构建、及分子标记辅助育种等研究提供帮助。     

利用2个F_2群体整合中国豌豆高密度SSR遗传连锁图谱

豌豆(Pisum sativum L.)是一种重要的食用豆类作物,在全世界范围内广泛种植,既可作为人类食物,也可作为牲畜饲料。用SSR标记构建的遗传连锁图谱在豌豆和其他作物的标记辅助育种中发挥着重要的作用。尽管对豌豆遗传连锁作图的研究已有悠久历史,但公众可获得且可转移的SSR标记以及基于遗传独特的中国豌豆种质的高密度遗传连锁图谱仍然有限。为了获得更多可转移的SSR标记和中国豌豆的高密度遗传连锁图谱,本研究首先从自主开发和文献获取的12,491个全基因组SSR标记中筛选了617个多态性SSR标记,并用于G0003973×G0005527 F_2群体遗传连锁图谱的加密。加密后的图谱全长扩展到5330.6 cM,包含603个SSR标记,标记平均间距离8.8 cM,相比之前的图谱有明显改善。基于上述结果,我们又筛选了119个具有多态性的SSR标记,用于构建大样本W6-22600×W6-15174 F_2群体的遗传连锁图谱,新图谱累积长度为1127.1 cM,包含118个SSR标记,装配在7条连锁群上。最后,将来自以上2个遗传图谱的数据进行整合,得到了一张覆盖范围6592.6 cM的整合图谱,包含668个SSR标记,由509个基因组SSR、134个EST-SSR和25个锚定标记组成,分布在7条连锁群上。这些SSR标记和遗传连锁图谱将为豌豆的遗传研究和标记辅助育种提供有力工具。     

GenBank数据库中黄麻EST-SSR标记的开发及其通用性评价

本研究从GenBank公共数据库中下载黄麻表达序列标签838条,利用SSRPrimer软件对其进行SSR位点查找,利用Primer 3.0软件设计66对SSR引物,通过琼脂糖凝胶研究这些SSR引物的PCR扩增特点,以检测其多态性。结果表明,66对SSR引物在黄麻属6个不同类型材料的扩增中,42 (63.6%)对引物至少在2个材料之间存在多态性。(AT)n重复基元和(GC-)n丰富的三核苷酸重复基元多态性较高,可作为黄麻SSR标记引物设计的首选。黄麻EST-SSR标记开发效率较高,不仅可以丰富黄麻分子标记的数量,而且为剖析黄麻重要性状的遗传机制奠定基础,这对于黄麻的遗传基础研究具有重要应用价值。     

Genetic diversity in groundnut (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Arachis hypogaea</Emphasis> L.) genotypes and detection of marker trait associations for plant habit and seed size using genomic and genic SSRs

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) an important oilseed crop in India is known to have narrow genetic base. Therefore, the assessment of genetic diversity and detection of marker-trait association are important objectives for the genetic improvement of groundnut. The present study involved the development of 192 SSR markers from Arachis genomic survey sequences. From these, seven polymorphic SSRs along with 15 other genomic SSRs, 19 genic SSRs, and three STS markers were used to detect genetic diversity among 44 groundnut genotypes. These polymorphic SSR markers amplified 155 bands (76 genomic and 79 genic), of these 128 bands (67 genomic and 61 genic) were polymorphic. The genomic SSR exhibited 88.1% and genic SSRs displayed 77.2% allelic polymorphism. The polymorphic information content (PIC) of the markers ranged from 0.04 to 0.95. The pair-wise genetic similarity ranged from 24.2 to 90.7% for genomic SSR and 32.9 to 97.9% for genic SSR markers. Cluster analysis based on the pooled data from both genomic and genic SSRs revealed a dendrogram which could distinguish all the genotypes. Further, the AMOVA analysis detected 16.7% genetic variation due to differences in seed size and 13.0% due to plant habit. Based on locus-by-locus AMOVA and Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA and further confirmation by discriminant analysis and general linear model, six markers were found to be associated with plant habit and four markers with seed size.     

A physical map of chromosome 4Hch from H. chilense containing SSR, STS and EST-SSR molecular markers

The construction of a physical map of chromosome 4H^ch from Hordeum chilense containing molecular markers capable of detecting segments of this chromosome in a wheat background would be very useful for marker-assisted introgression of 4H^ch chromatin into both durum and common wheat. With this aim, the applicability of 106 barley chromosome 4H primers (62 SSRs and 44 STSs) to amplify markers showing polymorphism between H. chilense and both common or bread and durum wheat was investigated. Twenty-five SSR (40.3%) and six STS (13.6%) barley primer pairs consistently amplified H. chilense products. Eight SSR (12.9%) and four STS (9.1%) barley primers were polymorphic between H. chilense and both common and durum wheat, 10 of them (6 SSRs and 4 STSs) were located on chromosome 4H^ch using both the addition line of chromosome 4H^ch in Chinese Spring wheat and a tritordeum line (an amphiploid between H. chilense and T. turgidum) nullisomic for chromosome 4H^ch. Additionally, 18 EST-SSR barley markers previously located on chromosome 4H^ch were screened for polymorphism; 15 were polymorphic between H. chilense and both durum and common wheat. For physical mapping we used a ditelosomic tritordeum line for the short arm of chromosome 4H^ch and a tritordeum line homozygous for a 70% terminal deletion of the long arm of 4H^ch. A total of 25 markers (6 SSRs, 4 STSs and 15 EST-SSRs) were mapped to chromosome 4H^ch. Eight markers were allocated on the 4H^chS, eight were mapped in the 30% proximal region of 4H^chL and nine were on the 70% distal region of 4H^chL, respectively. Arm location on barley chromosome 4H was also carried out using both 4HS and 4HL ditelosomic addition lines in wheat. All markers mapped may have a role in marker-assisted introgression of chromatin segments of chromosome 4H^ch in both durum and common wheat backgrounds. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.