我国西南地区玉米地方品种遗传多样性的SSR分子标记分析

利用微卫星(SSR)标记技术和DNA混合取样方法,选取均匀覆盖玉米染色体组的42对SSR引物,检测了来自我国西南地区54个玉米地方品种的遗传多样性。在54个玉米地方品种中检测到256个等位基因,每个SSR标记的等位基因数为2～9个,平均6.1个,说明我国西南地区玉米地方品种遗传多样性丰富。根据遗传相似系数矩阵做出的树状图,将54个玉米地方品种大致划分成4类,来源于同一地区的多数玉米地方品种划分在同一类中,表明西南地区玉米地方品种的地理分布与其遗传背景存在内在联系。从54个玉米地方品种中选出11个,每个品种选取15个单株,共165个DNA单株样品,分析玉米地方品种的遗传结构及其品种内的遗传多样性。对于检测玉米地方品种的遗传多样性,DNA单株样品分析优于DNA混合样品分析,42对相同的SSR引物在11个玉米地方品种中检测到330个等位基因,平均等位基因数A=7.86,有效等位基因数Ae=3.90,平均期望杂合度He=0.69,实际观察杂合度H0=0.37。据遗传结构分析结果,固定指数(F)为0.25～0.79,表明玉米地方品种是典型的混合繁育系统;由于杂合体不足,玉米地方品种群体间及群体内的遗传结构均偏离了Hardy-Weinberg平衡;杂合性基因多样度比率(Fst)平均为0.07,表明品种间和品种内的遗传变异分别占总遗传变异的7%和93%。玉米地方品种内遗传多样性及品种间遗传距离分析结果表明,在我国西南地区,分布在四川的玉米地方品种具有最丰富的遗传变异。经综合分析推测,我国西南地区玉米地方品种最早引进到四川种植,由此向毗邻地区传播扩散。     

河北省小麦品种基于农艺性状的遗传多样性分析

为明确河北省小麦品种遗传多样性的基础和历史演变,本研究以所收集的该省近60年来审(认)定的125个小麦品种为研究材料,以8个农艺性状为基础进行了遗传多样性分析.结果表明:河北省小麦品种农艺性状变异比较丰富,以每穗不孕小穗数的变异系数最高(52.63%),其次为单株粒重和有效分蘖数,每穗小穗数的变异最小;多样性指数从20世纪70年代的1.62增加到目前的1.89,平均值为1.76,但略低于其他省份.在上述分析基础上,用最长距离法可将125份材料聚为3大类,其中80.8%(101个)的品种归入第3大类,主要为20世纪90年代以后的品种.这说明该省小麦品种遗传多样性在逐步提高的同时,其遗传基础仍需进一步拓宽.     

利用SSR分析山西省玉米地方品种的遗传多样性

采用混合取样方法和SSR分子标记技术,利用48对引物对山西省38个玉米地方品种的遗传多样性进行了分析.共检测出368个等位基因,每个SSR位点的等位基因数为2～14个,平均为7.48个;多态性信息量(PIC)变化范围在0.24～0.89之间,平均为0.66.总共检测出185个稀有等位基因,21个特有等位基因.SSR标记聚类分析把38个品种大体分成了4个群.研究表明,山西地方品种遗传多样性非常丰富,很多品种具有频率很高的独特基因,它们可能具有一定的特异性.因而,山西玉米地方品种对于拓宽玉米种质的遗传基础可能会起很大的作用.     

水稻SSR标记的遗传多样性研究进展

本文从SSR标记优点和适用于研究水稻遗传多样性入手,综述了SSR标记在水稻核心种质构建与评价、遗传结构、稻种起源演化等方面的研究进展。总结了水稻遗传多样性的地带性特征（云南是中国稻种资源的最大遗传多样性中心和优异种质的富集地;西南稻区粳稻品种遗传多样性最丰富;南方稻区粳稻品种的遗传多样性高于北方粳稻遗传多样性）、遗传多样性与生态地理位置密切相关、目前水稻品种遗传基础狭窄、多样性降低等特征,分析了遗传多样性成因及影响因素,特别指出了育种行为对遗传多样性的影响,并针对当前水稻品种遗传多样性较低的问题提出了对策。     

建国以来我国棉花品种遗传基础的分子标记分析

采用MPD分子标记、遗传距离和聚类分析方法,研究建国以来我国有代表性的166个棉花主栽品种(或品系)的遗传多样性。41个RAPD标记Nei’s遗传距离(GD)与两组不同来源实验数据的表型性状欧氏距离(UD)间相关系数分别为0．6445(n＝1770)和0．7078(n＝7140),表明RAPD可以揭示棉花品种间遗传差异。通过对不同棉种、不同品种类型、不同时期、不同种植区域和不同来源的棉花品种(系)遗传差异的比较,探讨我国棉花品种的遗传基础。各层次上遗传差异的比较表明：在我国主栽棉花品种中,海岛棉品种遗传基础窄于陆地棉品种;我国自育陆地棉品种的遗传基础窄于国外引进品种;杂交陆地棉品种的遗传基础窄于常规品种;上世纪80年代以后陆地棉品种遗传基础窄于70年代品种;长江棉区品种遗传基础窄于黄淮棉区品种,西北内陆棉区品种窄于长江棉区品种。启示我们如何在我国棉花育种的全局和不同层面上把握和制定拓宽棉花育种遗传基础的策略和手段,并为进步深入探讨建国以来我国棉花品种遗传改良规律打下基础。     

芥菜类作物的遗传多样性

芥菜类是我国重要的经济作物,遗传资源十分丰富。现就目前国内外芥菜类作物遗传多样性研究的现状进行综述,并着重阐述了芥菜类作物的分类、分布以及遗传多样性研究方法,如形态学分析法、同工酶分析法、RAPD法和RFLP法。同时对芥菜类作物遗传多样性研究存在的问题和今后的研究方向进行了探讨。     

北方玉米丝轴黑粉菌遗传多样性与遗传分化研究

从80个随机扩增多态性DNA (RAPD)引物中筛选出26个扩增稳定、带纹清晰的引物,对从玉米丝黑穗病发生严重的大部分北方省市收集分离的68个玉米丝轴黑粉菌菌株进行了DNA遗传多 样性分析.结果表明,RAPD谱带多态性为98.33%,北方玉米丝轴黑粉菌具有丰富的遗传多样性,遗传分化明显;种群内遗传变异小于种群间遗传变异.玉米丝轴黑粉菌遗传分化除明显受地理阻隔影响外,也可能与玉米种子调运过程中携带病菌基因的遗传迁移相关.取相似系数为0.76阀值时的系统聚类分析,可将68个菌株划分为13个遗传宗谱.本研究结果完善和丰富了我国玉米丝轴黑粉菌遗传多样性评价研究,对玉米抗病资源筛选和抗病育种具有重要参考价值.     

不同秋眠性苜蓿的遗传多样性研究

苜蓿的秋眠性是苜蓿引种,栽培的依据。采用RAPD技术对32份不同秋眠性苜蓿进行遗传多样性和系统发育研究。结果表明,13条引物共扩增出217个标记,有214个多态位点,多态频率达到98．6％,说明这些苜蓿品种具有很高的遗传多样性。聚类分析表明,安徽野生南苜蓿和其它栽培品种苜蓿有大的遗传差异,单独聚为一类。其余31个品种在相似系数为0．815的地方聚为4类,并且,相对秋眠性强的苜蓿品种的遗传基础更为丰富,而秋眠级数低的苜蓿品种相对遗传基础较狭窄。本研究同时表明,安徽野生苜蓿将能够为南方苜蓿育种丰富遗传基础,应加大保护和研究。     

应用Weitzman方法分析华中型猪品种的遗传多样性

本文根据华中型20个猪品种27个微卫星DNA标记的研究数据, 应用Weitzman方法, 即通过估计总体遗传多样性、期望多样性、品种对总体遗传多样性的贡献、边际遗传多样性、保种潜力等指标, 评估华中型20个猪品种的遗传多样性, 并通过构建品种间遗传多样性的最大似然树, 图示化展示20个品种间遗传多样性的相互关系。20个华中型猪品种的总体遗传多样性是11,707, 期望多样性占总的遗传多样性的66.96%, 金华猪、皖南花猪、嵊县花猪和乐平猪是对总体遗传多样性贡献最大的4个品种, 其贡献率分别是8.90%、7.46%、7.40%和7.04%, 保种潜力最大的4个品种分别是金华猪、嵊县花猪、杭猪和大花白猪。根据遗传多样性进行聚类分析, 大致可将华中型猪分为3类: 大围子猪、沙子岭猪、宁乡猪等分布于湖南、湖北的品种为一类; 南城猪、嵊县花猪与杭猪聚成另一类; 金华猪与皖南花猪单独聚成一类。研究结果可为我国华中型地方猪种遗传多样性的最大化保护和利用提供科学决策依据, 本文也对Weitzman方法在应用中的关键性问题进行了探讨。     

基于全基因组的河北省小麦品种遗传多样性分析

丰富的遗传变异对于提高作物的环境适应性和遗传改良进度至关重要。小麦是重要的粮食作物,河北省作为我国第三大小麦产区,在保障国家粮食安全中占有重要地位。建国以来,河北省审定了大量小麦品种,然而有关其遗传基础的研究却相对缺乏。本研究以1949年至2012年的169份河北省小麦品种为材料,利用覆盖小麦全基因组的SSR标记分析了供试小麦品种的遗传多样性。结果表明,供试河北省小麦品种的3个染色体组中,以B染色体组具有最高的遗传多样性,A组最低;7个同源群中,以第5、4群具有最高的多样性水平,而第7群最低;在21条染色体上的遗传多样性变化较大,以4A、2D具有较高的多样性水平,1A染色体最低。从品种的更新换代角度看,自1949年以来,尽管品种的等位基因频率在下降,河北省小麦品种的多样性水平基本呈现上升趋势。在此基础上,根据遗传相似系数,供试品种可聚为5大类,聚类结果既反映出河北省小麦品种多样性水平的复杂多样,也反映出品种的地域性分布特征。     

玉米遗传转化与商业化转基因玉米开发*

玉米是世界上种植面积最大的粮食作物,为了提高玉米产量和满足人类需求,转基因育种已经成为改良玉米性状的有效手段。自1996年美国种植商业化转基因玉米以来,利用玉米遗传转化技术开发商业化转基因玉米已取得巨大成功。综述了玉米遗传转化体系优化的重要步骤,系统总结了已开发的商业化转基因玉米的种类,并对玉米遗传转化未来发展方向进行了展望。     

玉米穗腐病抗性鉴定、遗传分析与分子机制*

玉米是我国主要农作物之一,其产量占全国谷物总产量三分之一左右,在国民生活中发挥了重要作用。玉米生长过程中受多种病害侵扰,其中穗腐病是一种由真菌导致的常见病害,目前已鉴定出40余种可诱发玉米穗腐病的病原菌。穗腐病不仅可造成玉米产量损失也导致籽粒品质严重下降,病原微生物所产生次生毒素更是危及人畜安全。目前穗腐病防治以化学方法为主,但是因此所造成的种植成本增加和环境污染问题日益突出,选育抗性品种成为防控玉米穗腐病最经济和安全有效的方法。玉米穗腐病抗性属于典型数量性状,国内外已有多个研究组通过建立玉米穗腐病抗性研究体系,开展玉米群体大规模穗腐病抗性鉴定工作,并筛选出一批抗病材料,这为玉米穗腐病抗性遗传改良奠定了材料基础。利用数量性状位点(quantitative trait locus, QTL)定位和全基因组关联分析(genome-wide association study, GWAS)等方法在玉米 1~10号染色体均检测到显著相关位点。尽管如此,玉米穗腐病抗性研究成果应用于生产的实例较少,生产上仍然缺乏综合性状优良且高抗穗腐病的玉米品种。这一方面是由于玉米穗腐病抗性遗传机制十分复杂、抗性基因克隆工作进展缓慢;另一方面为缺乏对玉米穗腐病抗性遗传研究进展进行系统总结,未有效开发分子标记用于分子育种所致。通过综述玉米穗腐病抗性遗传研究进展,汇总已定位QTL位点和显著关联SNP,构建一致性图谱和鉴定出定位热点区间,并进一步对比分析定位区间候选基因特征和转录组、代谢组研究进展,对促进玉米穗腐病抗性机制研究和玉米抗性育种均具有重要意义。     

Glutinous Rice and Its Importance for Hill Farmers in Laos

Glutinous Rice and Its Importance for Hill Farmers in Laos. Economic Botany, 50(4): 401-408. 1996. Glutinous or waxy rice is the most important crop for subsistence farming economies in the hills of Northern Laos. Hill farmers continue to use traditional varieties only. Geographical and political isolation have contributed towards their preservation. Traditional varieties are mainly of the japonica type, have a good yield potential, are well adapted to the local conditions, and represent a wide genetic diversity. Farmers interviewed prefer varieties with large panicles, planted 2.7 varieties on average, with 17, 30 and 53% of the area planted to early, medium and late varieties, respectively. Out of 544 traditional cultivars 95% flowered within 88–120 days after planting. Crops planted together with rice in order of importance are: maize, cucumber, chili, taro, and sesame. Farmers reported annual milled rice production of 125 kg per capita and rice self-sufficiency for 8 months for 1992 and 1993. Maize, cassava, and products from the forest are major rice substitutes and food security in remote areas could best be improved by increasing production of maize and cassava in combination with livestock production systems.     

我国陆地棉基础种质表型性状的遗传多样性分析

选用43份陆地棉基础种质为研究材料,随机区组排列种植,并进行果枝数、铃数、株高等田间性状调查和衣分、铃重、纤维品质等测定.按照不同时期、不同来源、不同生态区对这些基础种质分别进行表型性状的遗传多样性分析.结果表明:基础种质间在产量、品质、农艺性状等表型性状上差异显著或极显著,遗传多样性指数为0.88;3期基础种质大部分性状差异不显著,但第2、3期基础种质比第1期的纤维长、整齐度高、细度好、衣分增加、早熟性提高、抗病和耐旱性增强,第2期基础种质遗传多样性和遗传丰富度最高;来自不同棉区的基础种质表型性状差异较大,黄河流域棉区基础种质综合性状较好,长江流域棉区产量性状较高,北部特早熟棉区早熟性好,美国引进种质抗黄萎病性较强;国内基础种质比国外品种在纤维长、强、细上的变异系数均有不同程度降低,但国内基础种质表型多样性比引进品种高.以上研究说明引进品种经过长期的环境适应、自然选择和人工选育后,产生了表型变异较为丰富的基础种质类型.     

Turning Maize Cobs into a Valuable Feedstock

With rising energy demand and limited resources, the need for alternative energy production is increasing. Maize cobs have an advantageous composition for the production of biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol but are currently left unused on the fields after harvest. Furthermore, cobs contain a low concentration of nitrogen (<1%). Therefore, cob harvest will not deplete soil fertility. Consequently, maize cobs are a cheap and promising source for sustainable energy production. Yet with primary focus on grain yield, no or little effort has been spent to increase cob biomass yield in addition to grain yield. Both cob and grain yield are complex inherited traits affected by the environment. Breeding of dual-purpose maize varieties with simultaneously increased cob and grain yield requires a deeper understanding of factors influencing both cob and grain development. In this article, the available knowledge on the genetics of cob formation and current and future applications of maize cob utilization are discussed to evaluate the prospects for development of dual-purpose maize varieties.     

Landraces of maize in Central Mexico: an altitudinal transect

Conservation of crop genetic resources is now considered an important component of sustainable agricultural development. If conservation of genetic resources for agriculture is to be successful, a more complete understanding of the dynamics affecting traditional (landrace) crop populations is needed. We conducted a study of maize-based agriculture in the Central Highlands of Mexico in communities at 2400, 1700, 1400, and 1200 masl to assess the status of traditional varieties in an area characterized by thorough integration into the national economy. Our research contradicts the view that modern varieties persist because of marginal conditions, deficient infrastructure, weaker markets, or traditional attitudes. One or two landraces dominated highland maize populations and farmers appeared to be more conservative in terms of their emphasis on traditional maize varieties than at lower elevations. The dominance of traditional varieties in the highlands is well known but poorly explained, and the coexistence of traditional and modern varieties in the mid-elevations was unexpected. Our highland study area has good roads, is near Mexico City, and is less than 50 km away from four major crop research institutes that have done maize breeding since 1950’s. We suggest that in situ conservation of maize genetic resources in the highlands is sustained because the landraces there have good agronomic performance and are highly valued by farmers for their end-use qualities. At the mid-elevations, competition between local and modern maize was sharpest, and farmers have found that both landraces and improved varieties suit their needs, hence enhancing genetic diversity. Interventions and incentives would appropriately be carried out here to assure in situ conservation of locally adapted landraces of maize.     

Trends in genetic diversity among European maize cultivars and their parental components during the past 50 years

It has been claimed that the system that delivers the products of plant breeding reduces the diversity of cultivated varieties leading to an increased genetic vulnerability. The main goal of our study was to monitor the temporal trends in genetic diversity over the past five decades among maize cultivars with the largest acreage in Central Europe. Our objectives were to (1) investigate how much of the genetic diversity present in important adapted open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) has been captured in the elite flint germplasm pool, (2) examine changes in the genetic diversity among the most important commercial hybrids as well as in their dent and flint parents, (3) analyze temporal changes in allele frequencies between the dent and flint parental inbreds, and (4) investigate linkage disequilibrium (LD) trends between pairs of loci within the set of parental dent and flint lines. We examined 30 individuals of five prominent OPVs from Central Europe, 85 maize hybrids of economic importance, and their dent and flint parental components with 55 SSRs. LD was significant at probability level P=0.01 for 20.2% of the SSR marker pairs in the 82 dent lines and for 17.2% in the 66 flint lines. The dent and flint heterotic groups were clearly separated already at the beginning of hybrid breeding in Central Europe. Furthermore, the genetic variation within and among varieties decreased significantly during the five decades. The five OPVs contain numerous unique alleles that were absent in the elite flint pool. Consequently, OPVs could present useful sources for broadening the genetic base of elite maize breeding germplasm.     

Plant genetic resources and policy

Genetic engineering will allow the introduction of new genes and novel qualities into crops, thereby extending genetic diversity. However, seed development and bulking through anther and pollen culture will tend to reduce variability. Infrastructural developments, such as the acquisition of small seed companies by large corporations, the patentability of plant germ plasm, and the technological needs of crop processing, will also favour uniformity in crop varieties.The recent history of crop agriculture shows that many plant breeders have recognized that increased homogeneity is inappropriate for world agriculture. Those using biotechnological methods should, therefore, also acknowledge the need for genetic diversity.     

In Situ conservation of maize in Mexico: Genetic diversity and Maize seed management in a traditional community

Results from a study of maize varieties and seed sources in a traditional community in Jalisco, Mexico, raise questions about the relationship between genetic erosion and the introduction of varieties. The relevance of models for in situ conservation of crop genetic resources based on geographical isolation of a community is discussed. The morphophenological diversity of local materials is shown to be enhanced by introductions of both improved cultivars and landraces from farmers in other communities. On the other hand, the geographical point of reference for defining “local” landrace is shown to be larger than the community itself. Farmers will classify seed obtained from other farmers in and outside the community as that of a local landrace if it resembles their own according to the phenotypic characteristics they use to distinguish varieties. Maize diversity in this community is then the result of a certain level of introduction of genetic material and not of geographical isolation.     

Estimating maize genetic erosion in modernized smallholder agriculture

Replacement of crop landraces by modern varieties is thought to cause diversity loss. We studied genetic erosion in maize within a model system; modernized smallholder agriculture in southern Mexico. The local seed supply was described through interviews and in situ seed collection. In spite of the dominance of commercial seed, the informal seed system was found to persist. True landraces were rare and most informal seed was derived from modern varieties (creolized). Seed lots were characterized for agronomical traits and molecular markers. We avoided the problem of non-consistent nomenclature by taking individual seed lots as the basis for diversity inference. We defined diversity as the weighted average distance between seed lots. Diversity was calculated for subsets of the seed supply to assess the impact of replacing traditional landraces with any of these subsets. Results were different for molecular markers, ear- and vegetative/flowering traits. Nonetheless, creolized varieties showed low diversity for all traits. These varieties were distinct from traditional landraces and little differentiated from their ancestral stocks. Although adoption of creolized maize into the informal seed system has lowered diversity as compared to traditional landraces, genetic erosion was moderated by the distinct features offered by modern varieties.