An integrated genetic linkage map for white clover (Trifolium repens L.) with alignment to Medicago.

ABSTRACT:

Background

White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is a temperate forage legume with an allotetraploid genome (2n=4×=32) estimated at 1093 Mb. Several linkage maps of various sizes, marker sources and completeness are available, however, no integrated map and marker set has explored consistency of linkage analysis among unrelated mapping populations. Such integrative analysis requires tools for homoeologue matching among populations. Development of these tools provides for a consistent framework map of the white clover genome, and facilitates in silico alignment with the model forage legume, Medicago truncatula.

Results

This is the first report of integration of independent linkage maps in white clover, and adds to the literature on methyl filtered GeneThresher®-derived microsate

SUBMITTER: Griffiths AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3693905 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature