Fast Neutron Mutagenesis of Soybean (Glycine soja L.) Produces a Supernodulating Mutant Containing a Large Deletion in Linkage Group H

Authors: Men, Artem E.¹; Laniya, Titeki S.¹; Searle, Iain R.²; Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Inaki¹; Gresshoff, Irma; Jiang, Qunyi¹; Carroll, Bernard J.³; Gresshoff, Peter M.¹

Source: Genome Letters, Volume 1, Number 3, September 2002 , pp. 147-155(9)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

We describe for the first time the application of fast neutron mutagenesis to the genetic dissection of root nodulation in legumes. We demonstrate the utility of chromosomal deletion mutations through production of a soybean supernodulation mutant FN37 that lacks the internal autoregulation of nodulation mechanism. After inoculation with microsymbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum, FN37 forms at least 10 times more nodules than the wild type G. soja parent and has a phenotype identical to that of chemically induced allelic mutants nts382 and nts1007 (NTS-1 locus). Reciprocal grafting of shoots and roots confirmed systemic shoot control of the FN37 nodulation phenotype. RFLP/PCR marker pUTG132a and AFLP marker UQC-IS1 which are tightly linked to NTS-1 allowed the isolation of BAC contigs delineating both ends of the deletion. The genetic/physical distance ratio in the NTS-1 region is 279 kb/cM. The deletion is estimated to be about 460 kb based on the absence of markers and bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) ends as well as genetic and physical mapping. Deletion break points were determined physically and placed within flanking BAC contigs.

Keywords: BAC; DELETION; MAP-BASED CLONING; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS; NODULATION; GENOMICS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/gl.2002.017

Affiliations: 1: Department of Botany (SOLS), The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia 2: MPI, Cologne, Germany 3: Department of Biochemistry (SMMS/LAFS), The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia

Publication date: 2002-09-01

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