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The linkage relationships and chromosomal locations of 14 enzyme-coding genes were investigated in Capsicum annuum L. (garden pepper) by monitoring segregations in backcross and F2 progeny of an interspecific cross between C. annuum cv. NM6-4 and C. chinense CA4 and by studying allele dosage effects in five hybrid primary trisomics. These conclusions can be reached: 6Pgdh-i is on the metacentric chromosome corresponding to the noir trisomie; Idh-1 and Est-3 are on chromosome 12; an aerocentric chromosome which corresponds to the pourple trisomie; Idh-1 is near the centromere and Est-3 is distal on the long arm of that chromosome. The other loci can be arranged in the following linkage groups and are apparently not located on the trisome corresponding to any of the trisomics tested: Est-4-18cM-(Pgi-1-3cM-Pgm-1); Prx-7-2cM-Tk-1; Pgm-2-2cM-Skdh-1; Est-1-OcM-Est-7. Linkage and dosage data combined with karyotype and meiotic analyses of the two species and F1 hybrids suggest that Idh-1 and Skdh-1/Pgm-2 are near the breakpoints on the two chromosomes involved in a reciprocal translocation for which the two species differ. One locus, Pgm-3, was detected only in C. annuum cultivars and is apparently the result of a duplication of Pgm-2 which codes for cytosolic phosphoglucomutase activity. Pgm-2 and Pgm-3 are not tightly linked (approximately 20% recombination) which supports the proposal that Pgm-3 originated from a mechanism other than unequal crossing over. A comparison of the linkage relationships of enzyme-coding genes in pepper with those of putative orthologous loci in tomato reveals that two linkage blocks, Est-1-Est-7 and Pgi-1-Est-4, may have remained intact since the divergence of Capsicum and Lycopersicon.
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Tanksley, S.D. Linkage relationships and chromosomal locations of enzyme-coding genes in pepper, Capsicum annuum . Chromosoma 89, 352–360 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331252
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