SSR-tagged breeding scheme for allogamous crops: a trial in bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)

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• 作者：Hikaru Tsukazaki ; Ken-Ichiro Yamashita ; Akio Kojima and Tadayuki Wako
• 关键词：Allium fistulosum ; Allogamous crop ; Bunching onion ; Genetic heterogeneity ; SSR ; tagged breeding
• 刊名：Euphytica
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：October, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：169
• 期：3
• 页码：327-334
• 全文大小：428.8 KB

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In several autogamous and vegetatively propagated crops, DNA markers have been used for cultivar identification. However, allogamous crops such as bunching onion (Allium fistulosum L.) are recalcitrant to marker-aided cultivar identification, as well as hybrid seed purity tests, due to the high degree of genetic heterogeneity within each cultivar. To aid cultivar identification and ensure its accuracy in bunching onion, we proposed the “SSR-tagged breeding” scheme in our previous study. The feasibility of this scheme was investigated here using a landrace of bunching onion with two populations tagged with two or four selected SSR markers. Compared with a control population, no significant differences were detected in the agronomic traits of the SSR-tagged populations. The targeted SSR loci were genetically uniform within each population whereas other loci maintained high heterogeneity. These results demonstrate that the SSR-tagged breeding scheme, even with a very small number of markers, is efficient for the identification of newly bred cultivars, and consequently for F₁ purity tests, in allogamous crops in which inbreeding depression is as severe as in bunching onion.