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Genetics, Vol. 164, 311-321, May 2003, Copyright © 2003

A Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Contig Spanning the Major Domestication Locus Q in Wheat and Identification of a Candidate Gene

Justin D. Farisa, John P. Fellersb, Steven A. Brooksc, and Bikram S. Gillc
a USDA-ARS Cereal Crops Research Unit, Northern Crop Science Laboratory, Fargo, North Dakota 58105,
b USDA-ARS Plant Science and Entomology Research Unit, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
c Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506

Corresponding author: Justin D. Faris, Northern Crop Science Laboratory, 1307 18th St. N., Fargo, ND 58105., justin.faris{at}ndsu.nodak.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: A. PATERSON

The Q locus played a major role in the domestication of wheat because it confers the free-threshing character and influences many other agronomically important traits. We constructed a physical contig spanning the Q locus using a Triticum monococcum BAC library. Three chromosome walking steps were performed by complete sequencing of BACs and identification of low-copy markers through similarity searches of database sequences. The BAC contig spans a physical distance of ~300 kb corresponding to a genetic distance of 0.9 cM. The physical map of T. monococcum had perfect colinearity with the genetic map of wheat chromosome arm 5AL. Recombination data in conjunction with analysis of fast neutron deletions confirmed that the contig spanned the Q locus. The Q gene was narrowed to a 100-kb segment, which contains an APETALA2 (AP2)-like gene that cosegregates with Q. AP2 is known to play a major role in controlling floral homeotic gene expression and thus is an excellent candidate for Q.




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