Journal
EUPHYTICA
Volume 177, Issue 3, Pages 365-374Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-010-0253-5
Keywords
Brassica napus; Brassica oleracea; Earliness of flowering; Interspecific hybridization; Pedigree breeding; Doubled haploid
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Alberta Canola Producers Commission (ACPC)
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The oilseed Brassica rapa flowers and matures earlier than B. oleracea, as well as their amphidiploid B. nap us. Therefore, earliness of B. rapa has been investigated as a source of variation for earliness in B. napus breeding programs. Variation for days to flower exists in B. oleracea; however, its earliest flowering variant B. alboglabra flowers 2-3 weeks later than B. napus. We hypothesized that the C genome of B. alboglabra carries alleles for early flowering which are different from the C-genome alleles of B. nap us; and these alleles can be used for the improvement of B. napus. To test this, we examined flowering time in pedigree and DH populations from two B. napus x B. alboglabra crosses. A B. napus line with about a week earlier flowering than the B. napus parent was achieved through reconstitution of its C genome following pedigree selection. Introgression of the B. alboglabra allele in the early flowering pedigree lines is also evident from the presence of B. alboglabra-specific SSR alleles in this line. However, application of doubled haploidy failed to generate any line that flowered earlier than the B. napus parent, which is probably due to the difficulty of obtaining large numbers of euploid B. napus DH lines from this interspecific cross. Thus, we demonstrate that a trait of the diploid species, which apparently looks undesirable, might in fact be highly valuable for the improvement of amphidiploids; and knowledge from this research can also be applied for other traits.
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