Pedigree,marker recruitment,and genetic diversity of modern sugarcane cultivars in China and the United States

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp) is an important crop for both sugar and biofuel production. However, the sugarcane breeding process has resulted in modern sugarcane cultivars with a narrow genetic basis. To broaden the genetic basis and promote international collaborations in sugarcane cultivar development, we documented the peidgrees of representative sugarcane culativars widely used in China and the United States of America (USA), recruited more than six thousand simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for sugarcane, and assessed the genetic diversity and relationships beween representative sugarcane cultivars and their potential ancestry accessions. The SSR gentoyping results indicated that both the USA and Chiniese cultivars had low genetic diversity, specifically the Chinese cultivars. The USA sugarcane cultivars experienced high presure of selection for sugar content as they had the closest relationship with S. officinarum, followed by Chinese cultivars, S. robustum, and S. spontaneum. The sugarcane accessions assessed could be divided into five and four groups through cluster and principal component analysis, respectively. S. spontaneum as a potential ancestor contributing to the stress tolerance of sugarcane cultivars was grouped into distinct clusters, and S. officinarum was grouped with sugarcane cultivars in both countries. S. robustum did not seem to contribute to the sugarcane cultivar development in China, but may have contributed to the USA cultivar development. This study not only provided a collection of easy to use SSR markers, but also detailed genetic diversity and relationship among the cultivars in the two counties, which will be referable to promote international collaboration and broaden the genetic basis of sugarcane cultivars.     

甘蔗栽培种单倍体基因组SSR位点的发掘与应用

甘蔗是世界上最重要的糖料作物之一,由于尚未完全破译栽培种基因组,导致SSR标记匮乏,难以覆盖全基因组,限制了甘蔗遗传研究的进展。本研究以栽培种R570的4660个BAC文库片段序列(累计总长为382 Mb,预测到25,316个编码蛋白基因)组装成的一套甘蔗单倍体基因组的模板,利用MISA (Microsatellite identification tool)软件,发掘SSR位点;并综合分析其与4种禾本科植物(高粱、玉米、水稻和二岁短柄草)SSR位点的分布特征;选取50对以TG和AG重复基序的SSR引物,分别利用4个甘蔗属材料(R570、ROC1、LA purple和SES208)和24个重要甘蔗亲本,对SSR引物进行扩增效率验证和多态性分析。共发掘到27,241个SSR位点,平均每个BAC片段有6.29个SSR位点,平均密度为71.33个SSR Mb?1,远低于高粱的平均密度(350.00个SSR Mb?1)。在重复基序中,占比前2位的分别为单核苷酸基序(11,079个)和三核苷酸重复基序(6447个),合计占总SSR位点数的64.33%。与甘蔗不同的是, 4种禾本科植物中的三核苷酸...     

Comparative assessment of genetic diversity between wild and cultivated barley using gSSR and EST‐SSR markers

Barley is an economically important cereal crop especially for feed and malt production, but its value as food is increasing due to various health benefits. Wild barley is the progenitor of modern day barley cultivars possessing a rich source of genetic variation for various biotic and abiotic stresses. Species‐specific molecular markers have great potential for efficient introgression of these important traits from wild to cultivated barley. In the present study, 140 microsatellite markers were screened to assess the genetic variation and species‐specific markers between wild and cultivated germplasm. Of these 140, a polymorphic set of 48 genomic (gSSR) and 16 EST‐SSRs amplified a total of 685 alleles. Cluster analysis discriminated all 47 accessions and classified wild and cultivated genotypes into two distinct groups, according to their geographic origin. Our analysis indicated that gSSRs were more informative than EST‐based SSRs. Results from PCoA analysis for species‐specific alleles clearly suggest that wild barley genotypes contain a higher number of unique alleles.     

The art of attrition: development of robust oat microsatellites

Microsatellite or simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers are important tools for genetic analyses, especially those targeting diversity. The primary objective of this study was to develop robust oat‐based microsatellite markers from newly enriched genomic libraries to expand on a relatively small existing oat SSR toolbox. Microsatellite motifs characterized by (CA/GT), (AAT/TTA), (ATG/TAC) and (CATC/GTAG) repeats were targeted for enrichment. Preliminary screening showed that 90% of clones from the (CA/GT) and 79% of the clones from the (ATG/TAC) libraries contained repeats, while < 11% of the clones from (AAT/TTA) and (CATC/GTAG) libraries contained repeats. Subsequent sequencing of 1536 clones from the (CA/GT) and (ATG/TAC) libraries resulted in 539 and 578 SSRs for which primers were designed, respectively. A total of 246 SSRs were polymorphic across 11 oat lines. One hundred and twenty‐five of the markers produced highly reproducible assays that interrogated 369 alleles at 193 loci. Of these, 79 robust assays interrogated 146 codominant alleles. These markers will be useful for a wide range of genetic analyses in oat including assessment of diversity and marker‐assisted breeding.     

Characterization of novel sugarcane expressed sequence tag microsatellites and their comparison with genomic SSRs

Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are one of the most suitable markers for genome analysis as they have great potential to aid breeders to develop new improved sugarcane varieties. The development of SSR derived from expressed sequence tags (EST) opens new opportunities for genetic investigations at a functional level. In the present work, the polymorphism obtained with a subset of 51 EST–SSRs derived from sucest was compared with those generated by 50 genomic SSRs (gSSR) in terms of number of alleles, polymorphism information content, discrimination power and their ability to establish genetic relationships among 18 sugarcane clones including three Saccharum species (S. officinarum, S. barberi, S. sinense). The majority of EST–SSRs loci had four to six alleles in contrast to the seven to nine observed for the gSSRs loci. Approximately, 35% of the gSSRs had PIC values around 0.90 in contrast to 15% of the EST–SSRs. However, the mean discrimination power of the two types of SSR did not differ significantly as much as the average genetic similarity (GS) based on Dice coefficient. The correlation between GS of the two types of SSRs was high (r = 0.71/P = 0.99) and significant. Although differences were observed between dendrograms obtained with each SSR type, both were in good agreement with pedigree information. The S. officinarum clone IJ76‐314 was grouped apart from the other clones evaluated. The results here demonstrate that EST–SSRs can be successfully used for genetic relationship analysis, extending the knowledge of genetic diversity of sugarcane to a functional level.     

Genetic mapping and QTL analysis for sugar yield-related traits in sugarcane

Genetic improvement of sugar content in sugarcane would benefit from the availability of sufficient DNA markers and a genetic map. Genetic linkage maps were constructed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for seedling brix (SB), brix (B), sucrose percent in juice (SUC), stalk number (SN), stalk length (SL), stalk diameter (SD), internodes (INT), number of green leaves (NGL), at three crop cycles across seven environments in a segregating population with 207 individuals derived from a bi-parental cross of sugarcane elite cultivars. Linkage analysis led to the construction of eight linkage groups (LGs) for Co86011 and sixteen LGs for CoH70. The combined length of the two linkage maps was 2606.77 cM distributed over 24 LGs. 31 QTLs were identified: 2 for SB, 7 for B, 6 for SUC, 4 for SN, 1 for SL, 3 for SD, 6 for INT and 2 for NGL at LOD scores ranging from 2.69 to 4.75. 7 QTLs (22 %) had stable effect across crop year and locations. Markers from parents were found to be associated with both positive and negative effect on all of the traits analyzed. The most important QTLs intervals identified in this study using single-dose marker, were qB2, qSUC2, qINT2 and qB2, qSUC2, qSL2, qINT2 located between SSR markers UGSM31₅₄₈ and UGSM31₆₄₉. These QTLs could be put into use in marker assisted breeding.     

Development of novel microsatellite markers for effective applications in Anthurium cultivar identification

Anthurium andraeanum is one of the most economically important floral crops and potted flowers marketed worldwide. Microsatellite markers are currently the preferred molecular marker owing to the many desirable attributes, including hypervariability, codominance, and amenability to high-throughput genotyping; however, there are few polymorphic molecular markers available for Anthurium. The object of this study was to develop and characterize novel microsatellite markers using the Araceae sequences in GenBank of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to contribute to molecular identification for cultivar protection. Using 1,579 Araceae expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and the related nucleotide sequences, 100 candidates contained simple sequence repeat (SSR) motifs that were suitable for primer design. Furthermore, 100 pairs of SSR primers were screened against a set of 28 diverse genotypes representing 24 cultivars that included four registration cultivars which were bred from the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) and 20 commercial cultivars, appended with three hybrid progeny and a mutant line. From the selected six polymorphic SSR loci, 52 alleles were amplified and 27 distinct genotypes were found, except for ‘Tropical’ and its mutant, with a mean number of eight alleles per locus. The polymorphism information content (PIC) ranged from 0.86 to 0.93. Based on these results, we proposed a key identification set using four microsatellite markers that is sufficient to discriminate among 24 cultivars. Because the Anthurium microsatellite markers developed in this study are primarily from expressed sequence tags or related genomic sequences, they can be used for cultivar identification and, accordingly, contribute to genetic evaluations in breeding programs.     

Independent target region amplification polymorphism and single‐nucleotide polymorphism marker utility in genetic evaluation of sugarcane genotypes

The independent target region amplification polymorphism (TRAP) and single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker s were used for genetic evaluation of different selected 47 sugarcane genotypes. A total of 23 pairs of TRAP markers generated 925 alleles, of which 74% alleles were polymorphic. Polymorphism was generally high (>50%), ranging from 54 to 98%. The polymorphism information content (PIC) values 0.20 varied among the primer combination ranging from 0.17 in SAI + Arbi 2 to 0.31 in GL 2+ Arbi 1 with an average of 0.24. However, the Pearson correlation between PIC and power of discrimination (PD) was found to be less significant. Single‐nucleotide polymorphisms were used first time for the assessment of genetic diversity among different species of Saccharum and cultivated sugarcane varieties. The SNPs were detected from 454 sequencing. A total of 245 SNP markers were assayed across the 47 genotypes, and 167 SNPs were found to be polymorphic. The PIC values ranged from 0.04 to 0.38 with an average of 0.21, and their respective PD varied from 0.58 to 0.04 with an average value of 0.31. The obtained results relatively significant were compared with the other marker systems through genetic similarity and the clusters formed in different unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean clustering dendrogram. The clustering analysis established genetic relationship in the order of Erianthus > Sclerostachya > Narenga > Saccharum spontaneum > S. robustum > S. barberi > S. officinarum/cultivars. These results ratify TRAP and SNP marker systems for assessing genetic diversity studies, and more diversified Erianthus spp. can contribute substantially towards sugarcane varietal improvement through breeding with Saccharum spp. or hybrid cultivars.     

利用分子标记数据逐步聚类取样构建甘蔗杂交品种核心种质库

甘蔗杂交品种是商业品种选育的重要亲本资源,为了有效管理和评价这类资源,本研究使用SSR分子标记数据,依据不同相似性系数,采用逐步UPGMA聚类法对161份甘蔗杂交品种(136份来自前期构建的初级核心种质库和25份为新引入国家甘蔗种质资源圃的材料)构建核心种质库,以随机取样方法为对照。在核心种质库质量检测中,用Nei’s多样性指数、Shannon-Wiener多样性指数、总条带数、多态性条带数、多态性条带比例、变异系数符合率、极差符合率、方差差异百分率和均值差异百分率评价分析。结果表明,161份材料在20个SSR位点上具有丰富的多态性,获得294个条带,其中290个为多态性条带,平均多态性条带比例达98.64%;依据3种相似性系数(Jaccard、SM、Dice)和2种取样方法获得8个核心种质库,在核心种质库质量检测中Shannon-Wiener多样性指数、总条带数、多态性条带数表现出较高的检测效率,而其他指标相对较低,8个库中依据Jaccard或Dice相似性系数构建的核心种质库质量最优,该库由107份材料组成,Nei’s多样性指数(0.9785)和Shannon-Wiener多样性指数(4.1854)在P<0.05概率条件下与原库(分别为0.9801和4.4074)无显著差异,而且与原库的均值差异百分率为0 (<20.00%),极差符合率为94.32% (>80.00%),对原库分子和农艺性状遗传多样性都具有较好的代表性,可为后续甘蔗杂交品种资源的准确评价、优异基因发掘和开发利用提供重要的前期基础。     

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.     

DNA typing of hops (Humulus lupulus) through application of RAPD and microsatellite marker sequences converted to sequence tagged sites (STS)

Summary Both random amplified polymorphic DNA and microsatellite repeat sequences were investigated as DNA markers for distinguishing hop cultivars. Microsatellite sequences converted to STS markers proved to be most successful. The relative abundance of microsatellite repeat sequences in the hop genome varied depending on the sequence class. Of the repeat types investigated the dinucleotide repeats (GA)_n and (GT)_n are the most highly represented in the hop genome. Microsatellite repeat sequences in hops have been shown to be highly polymorphic and are very informatives as STS molecular markers. A DNA typing system using sequence-tagged microsatellite site markers has been developed which will not only be useful for hop cultivar identification but also marker assisted breeding and quality control purposes.     

Identification of SSR markers which could differentiate blast disease resistance accessions in finger millet (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Eleusine coracana</Emphasis> (L.) Gaertn.)

Microsatellites also known as SSR are the class of repetitive DNA sequences present throughout the genome of all eukaryotic organisms. The present study identified SSRs using biotinylated beads capture method. Ten sets of primers were designed based on sequences having at least (CT)10 repeats. A total of 27 accessions having a mix of both African (resistant) and Indian origin (resistant and susceptible) were assessed using 30 microsatellite markers. Amplification products were obtained for all 30 primers studied; 25 out of these primers were found to be polymorphic with 13 primers showing two alleles per locus. The current study identified markers which could differentiate between resistant and susceptible accessions and also segregate accessions based on geographical region. These informative SSR markers can be used in finger millet genetic improvement projects.     

首批海岛棉基因组来源的微卫星标记的分离、评价和定位

海岛棉(Gossypium barbadense)是世界上最重要的栽培棉种之一。海岛棉纤维品质优良,是优质棉的重要产源。为了研究海岛棉的遗传多样性,为海岛棉育种提供参考依据,从海岛棉遗传标准系中分离基因组来源的微卫星标记用于海岛棉遗传评价。采用两种方法分离微卫星标记,一是用ISSR (inter simple sequence repeat) 引物扩增Pima3-79,克隆测序后从中开发微卫星标记;二是利用简并引物扩增Pima3-79,克隆测序后从中开发微卫星标记。共挑选1 447个克隆,筛选出239个独立克隆。测序后得到214个单一序列,其中包含微卫星并可用于引物设计的序列70个,获得86对引物。86对引物用于扩增56个海岛棉材料和4个陆地棉材料,16对引物没有扩增,43对引物在所有材料中没有多态性;27对引物在海岛棉和陆地棉之间有多态性,19对引物在海岛棉中表现多态性。利用Jaccard相似系数和UPGMA方法进行聚类分析可以明显区分陆地棉和海岛棉,并且将海岛棉分为4类。14对引物在BC₁群体中表现多态性,产生14个位点。9个位点整合到BC₁连锁图的7个染色体上,4个位于A亚基因组,5个位于D亚基因组。海岛棉微卫星标记扩展了棉花微卫星标记,有助于海岛棉遗传多样性的研究,有利于棉花遗传图谱的进一步丰富。     

亚洲棉种质资源的SSR遗传多样性分析

 对我国棉花中期库保存的200份不同地理来源的亚洲棉代表性样本进行了SSR遗传多样性分析,结果表明：亚洲棉分子水平的遗传多样性较高。83个多态性位点共检测到368个等位基因变异,其中多态性的等位基因数为329个,平均每个SSR位点3.964个。位点多态性信息量（PIC）变幅为0.010～0.882,平均0.578,PIC值大于0.7的标记有33个（占39.8%）。基因多样性（H′）变幅为0.031～2.163,有效等位基因数（Ne）变幅为1.010～8.496。华南棉区基因遗传多样性最高,其次为长江流域棉区、黄河流域棉区,从理论上支持被广泛接受的亚洲棉在我国的传播路线是由南到北,华南棉区是中棉种系的遗传多样性富集中心。利用软件NYSTS-pc2.20,采用类平均法(UPGMA)进行聚类分析,种质间SSR相似系数变幅为0.58～0.997,平均0.745,在阈值0.73处200份亚洲棉聚为8个类群,贵池小子棉白子单独聚为一群,与其他种质遗传距离较远。遗传距离和地理距离没有必然联系,但种质间亲缘关系处于极端远或极端近时,则地理距离一般也趋于较远或较近。     

甘蔗常用亲本遗传多样性和磷效率研究

本研究利用18对SSR分子标记对20份常用甘蔗亲本进行遗传多样性分析,实验结果表明,共扩增出410条带,每对引物的扩增带数为9～52条,平均23条;遗传相似性为0.522～0.693,平均为0.606,相似系数较低,亲本间遗传差异较大。SSR聚类分析结果表明:以相似系数0.61为标准,可以将20份常用甘蔗亲本分为四类,分类结果与系谱来源基本吻合,磷效率在四类甘蔗亲本材料间存在显著的类型差异。在亲本选配过程中,综合考虑亲本的SSR分子标记及磷效率评价结果,有利于提高亲本选择准确性和培育磷高效基因型。     

Cross‐genera amplification of informative microsatellite markers from common bean and scarlet runner bean for assessment of genetic diversity in mungbean (Vigna radiata)

Mungbean (V. radiata) is an important Asiatic legume supplying inexpensive protein to a vast majority of vegetarian masses. To increase markers repertoire in mungbean, a study was conducted to analyse 384 microsatellite markers derived from common bean, scarlet runner bean and adzuki bean for their transferability and polymorphism. The results showed that 87 (24.71%) primer pairs could amplify DNA loci of 20 mungbean genotypes including one accession of V. trilobata, while 52 showed reliable banding and polymorphism. These showed different degrees of variability at each locus producing 250 alleles with the number of alleles varying from 2 to 9. The major allele frequency varied from 0.17 to 0.95, while the polymorphic information content of SSRs ranged between 0.09 and 0.86 with an average of 0.60 ± 0.16. UPGMA revealed three major clusters accommodating ~95% of the accessions while one accession of V. trilobata (‘NSB‐007’) did not group with any other genotype describing the discriminating power of informative microsatellites. This study identified a set of useful microsatellite markers to accelerate the genetic studies and breeding programme of mungbean.     

中国88个马铃薯审定品种SSR指纹图谱构建与遗传多样性分析

为对马铃薯品种鉴别、优良杂交组合选配提供分子水平上的依据,利用SSR标记构建了中国2000-2007年审定的88个马铃薯品种的指纹图谱并进行了遗传多样性分析。以138对SSR引物对16份遗传差异较大的马铃薯材料的基因组DNA进行了扩增,筛选出10对多态性高、谱带清晰的引物。利用10对SSR引物对全部供试材料进行扩增及电泳检测,共检测到135个等位位点,其中133个为多态性位点,多态性比率达98.52%。每对SSR引物扩增出的等位位点数7~22个,平均13.5个,多态性信息量变化范围为0.7604~0.9375,平均0.8501。通过对电泳检测结果的统计分析,利用S180、S25、S7、S151、S184及S192等6对引物构建了88份供试材料的SSR指纹图谱。聚类分析表明,在相似系数0.620处,所有供试材料被被聚为一类,在相似系数0.652处,81.8%的材料仍然聚在一起,从分子水平上表明供试材料遗传基础非常狭窄。聚类分析结果与供试材料系谱来源有较好一致性,同一栽培区域育成的品种在不同程度上聚在一类。     

Genetic diversity assessment and genotype identification in sugarcane based on DNA markers and morphological traits

Sugarcane is known for its highly complex genetics and more knowledge is needed for better use and conservation of genetic materials. In order to identify genotypes and to assess genetic diversity, diverse data sets such as morphological and molecular markers are used as a general approach. To evaluate the usefulness of different markers, important sugarcane genotypes in Argentina were characterized by AFLP, SSR and morphological traits. All genotypes characterized were grouped in one main cluster in dendrograms using two independent softwares. Interestingly, local genotypes grouped together with USA varieties and no clear genetic differentiation could be found probably due to intensive germplasm exchange between these breeding programs. The molecular markers tested were useful for genetic diversity assessment as well as for genotype identification. These markers should be included in the internationally established characters for sugarcane variety protection as they give a better view on whole genome complexity. Additionally, genetic similarities obtained from molecular markers will provide more accurate information to breeders than the pedigree method, especially when considering the asymmetric genetic inheritance of sugarcane. Morphological traits are valuable tools to identify genotypes since they reflect external resemblance more than genetic relatedness. When they were combined with molecular markers the dendogram obtained revealed genetic relationships and the genetic diversity was better estimated. In summary, both methods appear to be useful, complementing each other and should be used together to assist sugarcane breeders in estimating genetic diversity, electing parents for crossings, identifying superior lines and to protect intellectual property rights.