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Mapping and tagging of seed coat colour and the identification of microsatellite markers for marker-assisted manipulation of the trait in Brassica juncea

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Microsatellite marker technology in combination with three doubled haploid mapping populations of Brassica juncea were used to map and tag two independent loci controlling seed coat colour in B. juncea. One of the populations, derived from a cross between a brown-seeded Indian cultivar, Varuna, and a Canadian yellow-seeded line, Heera, segregated for two genes coding for seed coat colour; the other two populations segregated for one gene each. Microsatellite markers were obtained from related Brassica species. Three microsatellite markers (Ra2-A11, Na10-A08 and Ni4-F11) showing strong association with seed coat colour were identified through bulk segregant analysis. Subsequent mapping placed Ra2-A11 and Na10-A08 on linkage group (LG) 1 at an interval of 0.6 cM from each other and marker Ni4-F11 on LG 2 of the linkage map of B. juncea published previously (Pradhan et al., Theor Appl Genet 106:607–614, 2003). The two seed coat colour genes were placed with markers Ra2-A11 and Na10-A08 on LG 1 and Ni4-F11 on LG 2 based on marker genotyping data derived from the two mapping populations segregating for one gene each. One of the genes (BjSC1) co-segregated with marker Na10-A08 in LG 1 and the other gene (BjSC2) with Ni4-F11 in LG 2, without any recombination in the respective mapping populations of 130 and 103 segregating plants. The identified microsatellite markers were studied for their length polymorphism in a number of yellow-seeded eastern European and brown-seeded Indian germplasm of B. juncea and were found to be useful for the diversification of yellow seed coat colour from a variety of sources into Indian germplasm.

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This work was supported by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), India and its subsidiary, Dhara Vegetable Oil and Food Company Ltd (DOFCO). Microsatellite analysis through capillary electrophoresis was done on a sequencer provided by the DST-FIST programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to the Department of Genetics.

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    K. Lakshmi Padmaja, N. Arumugam, V. Gupta, A. Mukhopadhyay, Y. S. Sodhi, D. Pental & A. K. Pradhan

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Padmaja, K.L., Arumugam, N., Gupta, V. et al. Mapping and tagging of seed coat colour and the identification of microsatellite markers for marker-assisted manipulation of the trait in Brassica juncea. Theor Appl Genet 111, 8–14 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-005-1933-8

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