Identification of a mutable slender glume gene in rice (Oryza sativa L.) |
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Authors: | M. Teraishi Y. Okumoto H. Hirochika A. Horibata H. Yamagata T. Tanisaka |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Plant Breeding Graduate School of Agriculture Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan e-mail: tanisaka@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tel.: +81-75-7536045; Fax: +81-75-7536069, JP Department of Molecular Biology National Institute of Agrobiological Resources Tsukuba 305-8602, Japan, JP School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology Kinki University, Uchida 649-6433, Japan, JP
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Abstract: | The segregation pattern and chromosomal location of a slender glume mutation, induced by gamma-ray irradiation, was investigated. The mutation is genetically unstable: in the selfed progenies of slender glumed plants, not only plants with normal glumes but also plants that are chimeric for glume shape almost always appear at low frequency. The results showed that the mutation is controlled by a single recessive, mutable mutant gene slg. The frequency of reversion of slg to its wild-type state was little affected by crossing, backcrossing, genetic background or cytoplasmic factors. Conventional trisomic and linkage analyses revealed that the slg locus was located close to the rfs (rolled fine stripe leaf) locus on chromosome 7. In a subsequent RFLP analysis, slg was found to be located between the two RFLP loci XNpb20 and XNpb33, with recombination values of 3.0 and 3.2%, respectively. Southern analysis indicated that the mutability of slg is caused by none of the known transposable elements in rice. From these results, we infer that slg has a novel transposable DNA insert in its vicinity, which was possibly activated by gamma-ray irradiation. |
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