Linked dominant alleles or inter-locus interaction results in a major shift in pomegranate fruit acidity of ‘Ganesh’ × ‘Kabul Yellow’ |
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Authors: | S H Jalikop |
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Institution: | (1) Division of Fruit Crops, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessarghtaa, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560089, India |
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Abstract: | Summary Inheritance of fruit acidity in pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) was studied in 3 sweet or low acid (‘Ganesh’, ‘Ruby’ and ‘Kabul Yellow’) and 3 sour or high acid (‘Nana’, ‘Daru’ and
‘Double Flower’) varieties and their progenies. The F1 and F2 data of ‘Ganesh’ × ‘Nana’ showed that fruit acidity is monogenically controlled and the sour nature is dominant over sweet.
Further, whether a genotype produces sweet or sour fruit is determined by a major gene (SS) while a few modifiers with small effects cause fluctuations in the acidity levels within sour and sweet types. All the trees
of 3 crosses involving ‘Daru’ produced acidic fruits but those of (‘Ganesh’ × ‘Nana’) × ‘Daru’ reached acidity as high as
71.2 g/l which could be because of cumulative influence of modifying genes derived from the two acidic varieties ‘Nana’ and
‘Daru’. Pollination of functionally sterile ‘Double Flower’ variety with single (normal) flower types revealed that ‘Double
Flower’ is a dominant mutant from an acidic fruited genotype (Ss). The segregation pattern in F1 indicated the possible linkage between genes governing total acidity and flower type. All the F1 hybrids between ‘Kabul Yellow’ and ‘Ganesh’ (sweet × sweet) were sour fruited with almost 8-fold jump in fruit acidity over
the mid-parental value. The steep increase in acidity cannot be convincingly attributed to overdominance which is certainly
rare at major gene level. Alternatively, linked dominant alleles or epistatic effect of neighboring loci which readily simulate
overdominance (pseudo-overdominance) could have caused a major shift in F1 fruit acidity. |
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Keywords: | Double flower Fruit acidity Homeotic mutation Inheritance Overdominance Pseudo-overdominance Punica granatum |
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