Comparative Mapping of the Barley Ppd-H1 Photoperiod Response Gene Region, Which Lies Close to a Junction Between Two Rice Linkage Segments

Corresponding author: David A. Laurie, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom., david.laurie{at}bbsrc.ac.uk (E-mail)

Communicating editor: B. S. GILL

Comparative mapping of cereals has shown that chromosomes of barley, wheat, and maize can be described in terms of rice "linkage segments." However, little is known about marker order in the junctions between linkage blocks or whether this will impair comparative analysis of major genes that lie in such regions. We used genetic and physical mapping to investigate the relationship between the distal part of rice chromosome 7L, which contains the Hd2 heading date gene, and the region of barley chromosome 2HS containing the Ppd-H1 photoperiod response gene, which lies near the junction between rice 7 and rice 4 linkage segments. RFLP markers were mapped in maize to identify regions that might contain Hd2 or Ppd-H1 orthologs. Rice provided useful markers for the Ppd-H1 region but comparative mapping was complicated by loss of colinearity and sequence duplications that predated the divergence of rice, maize, and barley. The sequences of cDNA markers were used to search for homologs in the Arabidopsis genome. Homologous sequences were found for 13 out of 16 markers but they were dispersed in Arabidopsis and did not identify any candidate equivalent region. The implications of the results for comparative trait mapping in junction regions are discussed.

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