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Molecular mapping of a fertility restorer gene for Owen cytoplasmic male sterility in sugar beet

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We report here the molecular mapping of a fertility restorer gene (named Rf1) for Owen cytoplasmic male sterility in sugar beet. Eight AFLP and two RAPD markers, tightly linked to the Rf1 locus, were identified using bulked segregant analysis. Three AFLP markers, mAFEM972, mAFEM976 and mAFEM985, were found to co-segregate with the Rf1 allele in our mapping populations. With the help of RFLP markers, previously mapped on the sugar beet genome, we showed that Rf1 is positioned in the terminal region of linkage group Kiel III/Koeln IV. This map location agrees well with that found for the restorer gene X, which suggests that the Rf1 locus corresponds to the X locus. The availability of the molecular markers will facilitate the selection of maintainer–pollinator lines in breeding program and provide the foundation for map-based cloning of the Rf1 gene.

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The authors wish to thank Drs. C. Jung, E. Barzen, and F. Salamini for providing RFLP probes; A. Fujita, A. Hashimoto and R. Takayanagi for technical assistance; and the National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region for sugar beet seeds. This work was done in part at the Research Center for Molecular Genetics, Hokkaido University, and was supported in part by Grants in Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and in part by the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan, (Research project for utilizing advanced technologies in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, no. 1423). E.H. was the recipient of the JSPS Fellowship for Japanese Junior Scientists.

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    Present address: Hokkaido Green-Bio Institute, Naganuma, 069-1301, Japan

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  1. Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, N-9, W-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan

    E. Hagihara, N. Itchoda, T. Mikami & T. Kubo

  2. National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan

    Y. Habu

  3. National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan

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Hagihara, E., Itchoda, N., Habu, Y. et al. Molecular mapping of a fertility restorer gene for Owen cytoplasmic male sterility in sugar beet. Theor Appl Genet 111, 250–255 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-005-2010-z

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Keywords

  • Sugar Beet
  • Cytoplasmic Male Sterility
  • AFLP Marker
  • RAPD Marker
  • Bulk Segregant Analysis