Isolation and characterisation of microsatellites from hexaploid bread wheat |
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Authors: | G J Bryan A J Collins P Stephenson A Orry J B Smith M D Gale |
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Institution: | (1) John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UJ, UK, GB |
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Abstract: | The development of large panels of simple-to-analyse genetic markers for tagging agronomically important genes and diversity
studies in hexaploid bread wheat is an important goal in applied cereal genetic research. We have isolated and sequenced over
200 clones containing microsatellites from the wheat genome and have tested 153 primer pairs for genetic polymorphism using
a panel of ten wheat varieties, including the parents of our main mapping cross. A subset comprising 49 primer pairs detects
76 loci, of which 74 can be unequivocably allocated to one of the wheat chromosomes. A relatively low frequency of the loci
detected are from the D genome, and these loci show less polymorphism than those from the A and B genomes. Generally, the
microsatellites show high levels of genetic polymorphism and an average of 3.5 alleles per locus with an average polymorphism
information content (PIC), value of 0.51. The observed levels of polymorphism are positively correlated with the length of
the microsatellite repeats. A high proportion, approximately two-thirds, of primer pairs designed to detect simple sequence
repeat (SSR) variation in wheat do not generate the expected amplification products and, more significantly, often generate
unresolvable PCR products. In general, our results agree closely with those obtained from other recent studies using microsatellites
in plants.
Received: 19 March 1996 / Accepted: 28 June 1996 |
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Keywords: | Wheat PCR Microsatellite Simple sequence repeats |
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