Chromosome replacement and deletion lead to clonal polymorphism of berry color in grapevine.

ABSTRACT: Clonal polymorphism mainly results from somatic mutations that occur naturally during plant growth. In grapevine, arrays of clones have been selected within varieties as a valuable source of diversity, among them clones showing berry color polymorphism. To identify mutations responsible for this color polymorphism, we studied a collection of 33 clones of Pinot noir, Pinot gris, and Pinot blanc. Haplotypes of the L2 cell layer of nine clones were resolved by genotyping self-progenies with molecular markers along a 10.07 Mb region of chromosome 2, including the color locus. We demonstrated that at least six haplotypes could account for the loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Four of them resulted from the replacement of sections of the 'colored' haplotype, sized from 31 kb to 4.4 Mb, by the ho

SUBMITTER: Pelsy F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383506 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature