TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and characterization of EST-SSR markers for mapping reaction to Phytophthora cinnamomi in Castanea spp.
AU - Santos, Carmen
AU - Zhebentyayeva, Tetyana
AU - Serrazina, Susana
AU - Nelson, C. Dana
AU - Costa, Rita
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge Charles Burdine (Southern Institute of Forest Genetics) for technical assistance, including data collection using ABI 3130xl and 3730xl Genetic Analysers. We thank Dr. Christopher Saski (Clemson University Genomics Institute) for helping with bioinformatics tools used for SSR searching and Dr. P. Sisco (TACF, Carolinas Chapters) for access to plant material from the TACF’s breeding program. Primary support for this study was provided by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the Carmen Santos’s PhD grant and Project PTDC_AGR/CFL/101707/2008 .
PY - 2015/10/4
Y1 - 2015/10/4
N2 - Utilizing recently released transcriptome data, we developed 43 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) differentially expressed in European chestnut (. Castanea sativa) and Japanese chestnut (. Castanea crenata) in response to inoculation with the most severe chestnut pathogen in Europe, Phytophthora cinnamomi (. Pc). We used 24 parent and progeny trees - representing Pc susceptible, European and American chestnut (. C. dentata), and Pc resistant, Japanese and Chinese chestnut (. C. mollissima), species and some of their inter-species hybrids - to evaluate the EST-SSR markers' polymorphism and transferability rates within and among species, respectively. The set of EST-SSR markers showed a remarkably high interspecific transferability rate among the four Castanea species tested, ranging from 90.7% for Chinese chestnut and 100% for European chestnut. Only three EST-SSR markers were monomorphic (7%) and the average value of expected heterozygosity was 0.61, higher than that in other studies using EST-SSRs in chestnut.The novel EST-SSR markers developed and characterized here are useful for constructing genetic linkage maps, conducting QTL analyses of phenotypic traits, genotype-phenotype association studies (especially in relation of resistance to Pc), high-throughput genotyping for clonal identification or marker-assisted selection, and comparative genomics.
AB - Utilizing recently released transcriptome data, we developed 43 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) differentially expressed in European chestnut (. Castanea sativa) and Japanese chestnut (. Castanea crenata) in response to inoculation with the most severe chestnut pathogen in Europe, Phytophthora cinnamomi (. Pc). We used 24 parent and progeny trees - representing Pc susceptible, European and American chestnut (. C. dentata), and Pc resistant, Japanese and Chinese chestnut (. C. mollissima), species and some of their inter-species hybrids - to evaluate the EST-SSR markers' polymorphism and transferability rates within and among species, respectively. The set of EST-SSR markers showed a remarkably high interspecific transferability rate among the four Castanea species tested, ranging from 90.7% for Chinese chestnut and 100% for European chestnut. Only three EST-SSR markers were monomorphic (7%) and the average value of expected heterozygosity was 0.61, higher than that in other studies using EST-SSRs in chestnut.The novel EST-SSR markers developed and characterized here are useful for constructing genetic linkage maps, conducting QTL analyses of phenotypic traits, genotype-phenotype association studies (especially in relation of resistance to Pc), high-throughput genotyping for clonal identification or marker-assisted selection, and comparative genomics.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scienta.2015.07.043
DO - 10.1016/j.scienta.2015.07.043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939616788
VL - 194
SP - 181
EP - 187
JO - Scientia Horticulturae
JF - Scientia Horticulturae
SN - 0304-4238
ER -