Journal
JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Volume 35, Issue 12, Pages 751-762Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(08)60231-3
Keywords
Gossypium arboreum; microsatellite; fiber quality; yield traits; QTL mapping
Funding
- Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University
- Ministry of Education of China [IRT0432]
- [1308025]
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Asiatic cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.) is an Old World cultivated cotton species. The sinense race was planted extensively in China. Due to the advances in spinning technology during the last century, the species was replaced by the New World allotetraploid cotton G. hirsutum L. Gossypium arboreum is still grown in India and Pakistan and also used as an elite in current cotton breeding programs. In addition, G. arboreum serves as a model for genomic research in Gossypium. In the present study, we generated an A-genome diploid cotton intraspecific genetic map including 264 SSR loci with three morphological markers mapped to 13 linkage groups. The map spans 2,508.71 cM with an average distance of 9.4 cM between adjacent loci. A population containing 176 F-2:3 families was used to perform quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping for 17 phenotypes using Multiple QTL Model (MQM) of MapQTL ver 5.0. Overall, 108 QTLs were detected on 13 chromosomes. Thirty-one QTLs for yield and its components were detected in the F-2 population. Forty-one QTLs for yield and its components were detected in the F2,3 families with a total of 43 QTLs for fiber qualities. Two QTLs for seed cotton weight/plant and lint index and three QTLs for seed index were consistently detected both in F-2 and F-2:3. Most QTLs for fiber qualities and yields were located at the same interval or neighboring intervals. These results indicated that the negative correlation between fiber qualities and yield traits may result from either pleiotropic effect of one gene or linkage effects of multiple closely linked genes.
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