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Genetics, Vol. 167, 1905-1914, August 2004, Copyright © 2004
doi:10.1534/genetics.103.023580
Comparative Mapping of a Major Aluminum Tolerance Gene in Sorghum and Other Species in the Poaceae
Jurandir V. Magalhaes*,1,
David F. Garvin
,
Yihong Wang*,
Mark E. Sorrells
,
Patricia E. Klein
,
Robert E. Schaffert**,
Li Li* and
Leon V. Kochian*,2
* U. S. Plant Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Plant Science Research Unit, USDA-ARS, and Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology and Department of Horticulture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
** Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, 35701-970, Sete Lagoas-MG, Brazil
2 Corresponding author: U.S. Plant Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Tower Rd., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
E-mail: lvk1{at}cornell.edu
In several crop species within the Triticeae tribe of the grass family Poaceae, single major aluminum (Al) tolerance genes have been identified that effectively mitigate Al toxicity, a major abiotic constraint to crop production on acidic soils. However, the trait is quantitatively inherited in species within other tribes, and the possible ancestral relationships between major Al tolerance genes and QTL in the grasses remain unresolved. To help establish these relationships, we conducted a molecular genetic analysis of Al tolerance in sorghum and integrated our findings with those from previous studies performed in crop species belonging to different grass tribes. A single locus, AltSB, was found to control Al tolerance in two highly Al tolerant sorghum cultivars. Significant macrosynteny between sorghum and the Triticeae was observed for molecular markers closely linked to putatively orthologous Al tolerance loci present in the group 4 chromosomes of wheat, barley, and rye. However, AltSB was not located within the homeologous region of sorghum but rather mapped near the end of sorghum chromosome 3. Thus, AltSB not only is the first major Al tolerance gene mapped in a grass species that does not belong to the Triticeae, but also appears to be different from the major Al tolerance locus in the Triticeae. Intertribe map comparisons suggest that a major Al tolerance QTL on rice chromosome 1 is likely to be orthologous to AltSB, whereas another rice QTL on chromosome 3 is likely to correspond to the Triticeae group 4 Al tolerance locus. Therefore, this study demonstrates a clear evolutionary link between genes and QTL encoding the same trait in distantly related species within a single plant family.
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