Publication Date:
2009-08-08
Description:
Maize genetic diversity has been used to understand the molecular basis of phenotypic variation and to improve agricultural efficiency and sustainability. We crossed 25 diverse inbred maize lines to the B73 reference line, capturing a total of 136,000 recombination events. Variation for recombination frequencies was observed among families, influenced by local (cis) genetic variation. We identified evidence for numerous minor single-locus effects but little two-locus linkage disequilibrium or segregation distortion, which indicated a limited role for genes with large effects and epistatic interactions on fitness. We observed excess residual heterozygosity in pericentromeric regions, which suggested that selection in inbred lines has been less efficient in these regions because of reduced recombination frequency. This implies that pericentromeric regions may contribute disproportionally to heterosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McMullen, Michael D -- Kresovich, Stephen -- Villeda, Hector Sanchez -- Bradbury, Peter -- Li, Huihui -- Sun, Qi -- Flint-Garcia, Sherry -- Thornsberry, Jeffry -- Acharya, Charlotte -- Bottoms, Christopher -- Brown, Patrick -- Browne, Chris -- Eller, Magen -- Guill, Kate -- Harjes, Carlos -- Kroon, Dallas -- Lepak, Nick -- Mitchell, Sharon E -- Peterson, Brooke -- Pressoir, Gael -- Romero, Susan -- Oropeza Rosas, Marco -- Salvo, Stella -- Yates, Heather -- Hanson, Mark -- Jones, Elizabeth -- Smith, Stephen -- Glaubitz, Jeffrey C -- Goodman, Major -- Ware, Doreen -- Holland, James B -- Buckler, Edward S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Aug 7;325(5941):737-40. doi: 10.1126/science.1174320.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), USA. mcmullenm@missouri.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661427" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Centromere/genetics
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*Chromosome Mapping
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Chromosomes, Plant/*genetics
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Crosses, Genetic
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Epistasis, Genetic
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Flowers/genetics/growth & development
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*Genetic Variation
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Genome, Plant
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Heterozygote
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Hybrid Vigor
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Inbreeding
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Linkage Disequilibrium
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Phenotype
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Quantitative Trait Loci
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*Quantitative Trait, Heritable
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Recombination, Genetic
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Selection, Genetic
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Zea mays/classification/*genetics/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
