Development and Utilization of Functional Markers for Imidazolinone Herbicides Resistance Gene in japonica Rice Variety Jinjing 818

【Objective】Cultivating herbicide resistant rice varieties is an important direction in rice breeding. Developing efficient functional markers can accelerate the screening of herbicide resistance trait. 【Method】dCAPS and KASP techniques were used to analyze the genotypes of the experimental materials. In addition, the phenotypes were identified by herbicide spraying test. 【Result】Through sequence alignment analysis, we further confirmed that the mutation of 627 amino acid of acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene from serine (S) into asparagine (N) in Jinjing 818 (here after named ALS627N) produces strong resistance to imidazolinone herbicides. According to the DNA sequence flanking the mutation site, we developed two novel functional markers, dC-ALS-627 and K-ALS-627, for detecting this resistant allele ALS627N. The two markers can effectively distinguish homozygous ALS627N type, heterozygous type and homozygous wild type. Combined with herbicide spraying test, we confirmed that ALS627N is a dominant herbicide resistant gene. 【Conclusion】 We validated that the two markers have great potential in marker-assisted breeding for ALS627N gene. Totally, this study will accelerate the development of new varieties with resistance to imidazolinone herbicides, and have significance in breeding practice.