A carnivorous plant genetic map: pitcher/insect-capture QTL on a genetic linkage map of Sarracenia.

ABSTRACT: The study of carnivorous plants can afford insight into their unique evolutionary adaptations and their interactions with prokaryotic and eukaryotic species. For Sarracenia (pitcher plants), we identified 64 quantitative trait loci (QTL) for insect-capture traits of the pitchers, providing the genetic basis for differences between the pitfall and lobster-trap strategies of insect capture. The linkage map developed here is based upon the F2 of a cross between Sarracenia rosea and Sarracenia psittacina; we mapped 437 single nucleotide polymorphism and simple sequence repeat markers. We measured pitcher traits which differ between S. rosea and S. psittacina, mapping 64 QTL for 17 pitcher traits; there are hot-spot locations where multiple QTL map near each o

SUBMITTER: Malmberg RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6265660 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature