Chloroplast-DNA variation in the genus Lotus (Fabaceae) and further evidence regarding the maternal parentage of Lotus corniculatus L. |
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Authors: | P Gauthier R Lumaret A Bedecarrats |
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Institution: | (1) Centre Louis Emberger, CEFE/CNRS, F-34293, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, FR;(2) CEMAGREF, Groupement de Grenoble, B.P. 76, F-38402 Saint Martin d’Héres Cedex, France, FR |
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Abstract: | To resolve the maternal parentage of the tetraploid Lotus corniculatus, restriction-site variation of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) was studied in several accessions of that species, in the four putative
parental diploid species, L. tenuis, L. alpinus, L. japonicus and L. uliginosus, and in four phylogenetically more distant diploid species, L. hispidus, L. edulis, L. ornithopodoides and Tetragonolobus maritimus var. siliquosus. Evidence of cpDNA maternal inheritance was obtained by using reciprocal controlled crosses between plants of L. corniculatus and natural tetraploid individuals of L. alpinus showing very distinct restriction patterns. Interspecific cpDNA variation in the eight Lotus species and T. siliquosus was analysed by comparing cpDNA fragment patterns produced by five restriction endonucleases and totalling 304 distinct fragments.
Genetic differentiation in cpDNA was very high between the L. corniculatus group and L. hispidus on the one hand, and the three other species on the other hand. Sixteen restriction-site mutations and eight length polymorphisms
were identified among the five species of the L. corniculatus group and L. hispidus, Lotus uliginosus, L. alpinus and L. japonicus showed at least six DNA changes with regard to the molecule of L. corniculatus. Accordingly, these species should be excluded as maternal progenitors of L. corniculatus. Conversely, the cpDNA of L. tenuis differed from that of L. corniculatus by only two small-length mutations. As also suggested previously from an analysis of several nuclear markers, the results
reported here show decisively that L. tenuis may be considered as the most probable maternal ancestor of L. corniculatus.
Received: 23 February 1997/Accepted: 28 February 1997 |
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Keywords: | Lotus corniculatus Fabaceae cpDNA variation Maternal inheritance RFLP |
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