Physical Mapping of the liguleless Linkage Group in Sorghum bicolor Using Rice RFLP-Selected Sorghum BACs

Corresponding author: H. James Price, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, hjp6300{at}acs.tamu.edu (E-mail).

Communicating editor: M. J. SIMMONS

Physical mapping of BACs by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to analyze the liguleless (lg-1) linkage group in sorghum and compare it to the conserved region in rice and maize. Six liguleless-associated rice restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers were used to select 16 homeologous sorghum BACs, which were in turn used to physically map the liguleless linkage group in sorghum. Results show a basic conservation of the liguleless region in sorghum relative to the linkage map of rice. One marker which is distal in rice is more medial in sorghum, and another marker which is found within the linkage group in rice is on a different chromosome in sorghum. BACs associated with linkage group I hybridize to chromosome I_t, which was identified by using FISH in a sorghum cytogenetic stock trisomic for chromosome I (denoted I_t), and a BAC associated with linkage group E hybridized to an unidentified chromosome. Selected BACs, representing RFLP loci, were end-cloned for RFLP mapping, and the relative linkage order of these clones was in full agreement with the physical data. Similarities in locus order and the association of RFLP-selected BAC markers with two different chromosomes were found to exist between the linkage map of the liguleless region in maize and the physical map of the liguleless region in sorghum.

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